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.