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esther m.e. hillner | will faerber| wendy wergeles
BIOGRAPHY
AGAPE FARMS LOCATED IN SW LAS VEGAS IS PLEASED TO HOST RIDING CLINICS WITH STEVE MCCALLISTER/JENNI MARTIN ENTERPRISES
For clinic schedule, pricing and reservations contact MaryBeth Saffron at phone 702.497.8498 and /or email: mbsaffron@yahoo.com
I have waited a long time to find a show jumping clinician that incorporates classical training into the jump training of the horse. Steve incorporates dressage training into the jumping work and leaves you with training tools, specifically for your individual horse. Talisman Farm encourages clients whose focus are hunter/jumpers to participate in regular clinics with Steve McCallister - Esther Hillner Talisman Farm
Jenni Martin Enterprises - Custom-Fit Training
Steve McAllister -Trainer/Clinician
Raised with Horses and Basketball
Respected coach and trainer, Steve McAllister has been involved with horses all of his life. His parents owned and trained fine Quarter Horses on their farm in Connecticut and Steve began riding competitively at the age of five. As a junior rider, he represented Connecticut and New England at the world-renowned Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus, Ohio.
After graduating from high-school Steve was torn between his love of horses and his success as a star high school basketball player. He decided to turn down sixty-five basketball scholarship offers in favor of pursuing a career in the equine world.
Attending Post College, Steve made the Dean's List majoring in Recreation and Physical Education, obtaining teaching certification in forty-two different sports. He also completed the horseshoeing course at the University of Pennsylvania and proceeded to develop a very successful business servicing over 800 horses in the late '70s and early '80s.
In the mid-80's he built a seventy-two-horse facility and began importing and training horses from Europe. One of these horses made the short list for 1986 World Championships in three-day-eventing.
Unfortunately, a tragic fire destroyed the facility. But Steve regrouped under the name Highborn Horse Park, which included training, showing, horseshoeing and sales.
Jenni Martin McAllister -Rider & Trainer
The Junior Years
Interested in riding horses at the age of three, Jenni jumped into competition at five years old. Her first instructor was her older sister Cecily. This student-teacher relationship lasted into her teens - Cecily trained young horses, including Toy Soldier and Apple Annie, for Jenni to ride.
Jenni was also trained in dressage by Franz Rohvansky. She competed successfully in Three-Day-Event up to the preliminary level, taking clinics with Bruce Davidson during that period. As a junior rider in Southern California, she placed 2nd in the Pacific Coast Hunter Jumper Association Junior Jumping Finals in 1986 and 1987. She was occasionally coached at shows by Hap Hansen, was selected by USET for jumping clinics given by Olympic Gold Medalist, Joe Fargis, and rode in a number of clinics given by the eminent hunter-jumper trainer, George Morris.
At sixteen, as a member of the Gold Medal West Coast Team, Jenni, riding her half-blind Thoroughbred -Trakehner mare, Apple Annie, helped her team to win the CSIOJ Junior Nations Cup in Culpepper, Virginia. She also took the Individual Bronze Medal. The following year, going against other U.S. and several very strong Canadian teams, she and Apple Annie competed for the AHSA Zone Ten region team at the North American Continental Young Riders competition, pulling out the Silver Medal for the USA by jumping the only double-clean rounds of the day.
From Canada To Connecticut to California
After turning professional at eighteen, Jenni moved to British Columbia and worked for trainers Lindy Townley and Caroline Weeks for six years. During her Canadian tenure she rode Apple Annie to two Pacific Northwest Exhibition Grand Prix wins in Vancouver.
Moving to Connecticut in 1993, Jenni met Steve McAllister, who owned and ran Highborn Horse Park in Southbury. Soon they became partners in the sales, training and showing end of the business. This successful coaching, business & personal partnership continues to this day.
In 2003 they moved to Southern California where they continue to acquire and train top horses to compete nationally as well as internationally.
Jenni has a tremendous talent for preparing horses to excel at the Grand Prix level. With the exception of Rio Grande and Pop Socks, all of the following mounts were in their first year of Grand Prix competition:
Ready or Not, Dennis, Leonne, Think Big, In Effect, Greystone, Dollar D'Amour, Libera, Alcatraz 34, Sunrise, The Real Thing, Fabius 45, His Horse, Technicolor
Many of these horses have moved on to successful careers with other professional and amateur riders.
High Ranks
Over the years, Jenni has proven herself to be one of the top International Grand Prix riders. She is World-ranked in the top twenty percentile.
To learn more about Jenni Martin enerprises go to www.JenniMartin.com
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