American Haflinger Alliance

An FEI and CDI competitor, Renee has raised, trained and shown horses since 1987. She has earned numerous awards and championships including her bronze, silver and gold medals. She has trained her own horses from first backing thru Grand Prix. Her most notable mount is her Dutch stallion Kamuela. Renee lives and trains in California.

Jennifer Sullivan has been involved in the horse industry for her entire life. As a child, she rode Arabians on the regional circuit, with respected farms such as RoRah Arabians, Char Mar Arabians, and J.R. Dillon Arabians. Later, she became increasingly interested in the dressage discipline, working with Sybil Crafts and Tom Noone for several years. She then decided to claim her professional status in the industry, choosing to obtain her instructor’s license. At this time, she began teaching and training in the Morgan, Saddlebred, and stock horse community. This experience gave her a well-rounded, multi-breed and discipline background. Soon, her focus shifted to judging and she has never looked back. Relying on her diverse equestrian experience, Jennifer quickly became an educated and renowned judge.
Jennifer is a wealth of knowledge, holding United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Licenses for judging Arabians, Morgans, Friesians, Andalusians/Lusitanos, Saddleseat Equitation, Saddlebreds, Hackneys, Roadsters, and Western. She also holds a multitude of other breed judging cards, including Pony Of America Club, Gypsy Horse Registry Of America, Walking Horse Owners Association, World Class Miniature Horse Show Association, and Welsh Pony & Cob Society of America. Additionally she is licensed by the Open Horse Show Association, National Open Horse Show Association, New England 4-H, New England Horsemen’s Council, and the Open Horse Show Association.

Shawn Bigley has been training horses and ponies for over 30 years. She has taught at clinics and has judged for 4-H programs for over 20 years. She has judged for the University of Maryland Equestrian Team. She has given sidesaddle and western pleasure clinics in various venues. Shawn has been breeding Welsh Ponies for 17 years and is a proud breeder of A-B and Half Welsh. In addition to being a WPCSA Judge, she is also a USEF R Judge. When she is not judging at Welsh Shows, Shawn is often judging for regional show series such as BRAHA, EAAHSC, Cecil County 4-H Program, and other various series.

Emily has traveled the country studying with some of the world’s best trainers in a variety of disciplines. Her training style is a blend of Natural methods that carefully consider things from the horse’s point of view. Understanding how horses think, feel, and see the world around them opens the floodgates to clear communication, and therefore successful partnerships.

With over 20 years of experience teaching and training, Emily now offers training and lessons in Working Equitation, dressage, rider biomechanics, cow working, trail riding, obstacles, problem-solving for difficult behaviors, liberty, and groundwork. Currently Emily is a licensed USAWE TD and Licensed L judge. She shows her horses in in L1-L5. She has many National year end high point awards including 2018 L4 Champion and 2020 L5 Reserve Champion on a Haflinger, Soba TCF!