Lainie Wimberly
Lainie started riding on her 9th birthday. She qualified for the ASPCA MaClay Finals at Madison Square Garden when she was 11 (the youngest rider at the time) and was last off the stand by list.
As a junior rider Lainie caught rode and qualified many junior hunters. She worked for her trainer, prepping horses.
Lainie was able to start a home farm business with clients at the early age of sixteen. She always kept her own horses at home. Lainie started braiding at shows to pay for the expenses and she won the MaClay Regionals out of 250 riders on a borrowed horse.
After her junior years, Lainie worked for Melanie Smith, World Cup winner and Gold Medal Olympian, spending 3 years riding young jumpers and Grand Prix horses.
Lainie started Brigadoon Show Stables,Inc, focusing on young horses and clients in 1987.
She currently has two special hunters that she shows.
Crystal Blue, a imported 7 year old mare, with scores in the 90s. Lainie is very excited to have the ride.
Sky Blue Diamond, a 6 year old gelding, purchased this season (2024) that has earned several Championships already.
We are honored to have Lainie as a sponsored rider.
Hannah Isop
Third-generation equestrian Hannah Isop teaches and trains at her family’s Harkaway Farm, in North Salem, New York, with her aunt, Tracy Freels, and her mother, Susie Isop, who manages the barn.
Her grandparents, Jeri and Bob Freels, were both horse trainers. Hannah has earned top placings in many hunter and jumper divisions, including several wins in national and international hunter derbies, second place in the 2011 Ox Ridge Charity Horse Show’s Grand Prix, second in two consecutive years at the USHJA World Championship Hunter Rider Professional Challenge, first and second at the 2018 Devoucoux Hunter Prix at HITS-on-the-Hudson II, and numerous top-10 finishes at the Platinum Performance/USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship.
Christina Henriksen
Christina Henriksen has a lifetime of experience with horses and has been competing and winning at the FEI levels for over a decade. Having produced horses through the Advanced level on both sides of the pond, under the guidance of several of the industries best, she has established a consistent, fair, and correct program for producing horses and riders up the levels.
Horses have always been a part of Christina’s life. Growing up on a small ranch in South Dakota, Christina learned to listen to and communicate with horses early on. Their beauty, compassion, and sheer power fascinated her. A meaningful life quickly became a life with horses at its core. Christina embraced and flourished in the horse world. She has produced horses up through the FEI 4* level of eventing, competed in pure show jumping up to 1.30m and has earned her USDF Bronze medal in dressage.
Christina brings a breadth of experience to her riding, training, and coaching. She has ridden and trained under some of the World’s best, both in the US and abroad, including Bobby Costello, Sharon White, Blyth Tait, Bettina Hoy, Jay Halim, Grant Wilson, just to name a few. She incorporates lessons from her own journey into her training regimen to provide clients with a wide scope of thought on how to best achieve their goals.
Christina’s current competition horses include JTH Zest, a 13 year old British Sports Horse competing at the CCI4* Level. They have been together for 8 seasons now, with seasons in England and the UK. As well as, Cisco’s Calor Z a 9 year old Zangersheide Gelding competing at the CCI3* Level. One of the coolest horses Christina has ever known.
Erin Sylvester Kanara
Originally hailing from Hingham, Massachusetts, Erin Sylvester has led a life as an equestrian from a young age. She spent her adolescent years immersed in Pony Club and local Combined Training Associations learning the ropes of the sport.
In 2003, Erin moved to the Mid-Atlantic region to attend the University of Delaware and to train with Phillip Dutton at True Prospect Farm. In 2005, Erin was invited to the attend her first USEF Developing Riders training session in Aiken, South Carolina with her horse Landsear, who she campaigned at the Two-Star level and took her to her first Advanced competition at Plantation Field International in 2007.During this time, Erin also gained experience working with racehorses for Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Shepphard.
Erin now actively campaigns her string of upper level horses and has competed across the country and around the world at competitions including Fair Hill International CCI4*-L (Maryland), Bromont CCI4*-L (Canada), The Land Rover Kentucky CCI5*-L (Kentucky), The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI5*-L (England) and Pau International CCI5*-L (France).
Throughout her career, Erin has focused on bringing along talented young horses and advancing them up through the levels. ES Eventing has grown into a thriving training business with a barn full of competition horses and developing riders of all levels. Erin currently runs ES Eventing out of the former “Derry Meeting Farm,” a beautiful 95-acre farm that she recently purchased in Cochranville, Pennsylvania. She continues to train with Boyd and Silva Martin, who are located down the road at Windurra USA. During the winter months, ES Eventing relocates to Aiken, South Carolina so that Erin, the horses, and all of her clients can remain at the top of their game!
Ana Gilmour
Ana Gilmour is a Grand Prix trainer based in Northern California. She is a USEF “R” judge, a USDF gold, silver and bronze medalist on self trained horses, and she is a USDF Certified Instructor. Ana begin her career with a 10 year apprenticeship under the amazing leadership of Hilda Gurney. She then went on to work in Spain, China, Jordan, as well as training and competing Wellington, Florida for four years. Ana’s specialty is instructing riders of all levels, teaching correct basics which a lifetime of successful riding can be built upon. Ana also has a special affinity for working with sensitive horses such as the Spanish and Lusitano breeds.
As a Grand Prix trainer and competitor, Ana trains with a systematic approach, according to the German Training Scale. At the very bottom of the scale, mental relaxation and confidence in the rider are the two most important things a horse must possess in order for any training to take place. It is necessary for a rider to learn to control themselves and their own body before they can control the horse underneath them, so position, weight placement and seat flexibility and security are addressed with each rider. Ana works with each horse individually, creating a carefully tailored training program to fit specific needs in order to reach the full and uninhibited potential of each horse and/or rider.
Along with Ana’s 20 years of experience in the training and competition world, she also has a history steeped in commitment, having worked together and tirelessly with Olympians Hilda C. Gurney, Lendon Gray, Courtney King-Dye (USA), Juan Matute, Victor Alvarez, and Danielle Martin-Dockx (SPAIN), and Martin Schaudt (GERMANY). Throughout her career, Ana has maintained a steady aim for greatness, an aptitude for distinction, and an attention to detail that results in nothing less than the highest standard of training and performance in her riding as well as her instructing.