Training Staff
Missy Clark: Trainer
Missy has led the equitation and show jumping training ranks for years. Missy's strong roots in the US equitation system have helped her produce numerous top riders, many of whom have gone on to be successful professionals. Missy's coaching talents, work ethic, keen organizational skills, and desire to be the best that she can be are all passed on to her students making for winning combinations. She and her husband, John Brennan, own North Run in Vermont. Visit www.northrun.net
Pamela Polk: Trainer
Pamela Polk is native to Long Island and has been a professional horsewoman for over twenty years. She has successfully competed on both the Grand Prix Jumper and Hunter circuits, earning victories at nationally recognized events such as the Devon Horse Show, the Pennsylvania National, and the Washington International. Her students have also had much success and have taken top honors in the hunter, jumper, and equitation disciplines.
Jeffery Welles: Trainer
Riding since the age of six, North Carolina native Jeffery Welles has nearly four decades of equestrian experience to his name, including participation in four FEI World Cup Show Jumping Finals and more than 100 World Cup qualifiers, for which the FEI awarded him a medal. Welles was also named runner-up to Margie Goldstein Engle, for the 1989 American Grand Prix Association Rider of the Year award. Jeffery Welles and Armani earned a spot on the USEF Short List for the Beijing Olympics over the first two rounds of the USEF Selection Trials for Show Jumping in 2008.
Tom Wright: Trainer
Originally from California, Tom Wright has trained show hunters, Jumpers and Equitation on the East coast since 1980. Mentored by some of the top trainers, Tom has developed a training technique that stresses methodical preparation, excellence in horse care and forward thinking goals in order to achieve success. Among numerous champions at Devon and the Indoor shows, he is the only trainer to have won the AHJF Hunter Spectacular of Palm Beach five times.. Most recently, he trained Hayley Barnhill to the win in the 2010 USEF Hunter Seat Medal Finals and the 2010 ASPCA Maclay Finals.
Training Staff
Kevin Kirk
Kevin has returned to his native Long Island and is excited to be a part of the Hunter's Moon training team. Kevin is well schooled and experienced in all hunter, jumper and equitation disciplines, having spent several years traveling on the "A" circuit under the tutelage of many top trainers.
Erin Sayer
Erin, originally from Virginia, has been an equine enthusiast her whole life. During college, she competed in Intercollegiate Hunters and Dressage. From there, she took a working student role with former USET member Phyllis Dawson leading to a position working and riding for 2-time Olympic gold medalist and USET member Phillip Dutton. There she was able to learn about training, riding and carefully conditioning upper- level sport horses for top level competition. Since moving to NY in 2005, Erin has taught on the local level to riders of both Hunter/ Jumpers and Dressage with emphasis on the principles of balance seat riding. She enjoys working with riders of all ages and her passion is riding and training young horses.