Hadley brings 23 years of experience with horses to her role as trainer for the Allynbrooke program. That experience includes riding, competing, teaching, and business management in a broad range of riding disciplines, including a long-time focus on hunters, jumpers, and equitation.

Beginnings

Hadley began at the age of six with her first grade teacher who also taught horseback riding lessons on her own property after school . Hadley credits her success as a rider to the phenomenal beginning Judi Hook provided her through the first seven—and most critical—years of her riding career. Hadley and Judi remain very close friends today.

Junior Years

In 1986, with the guidance of Judi and the help and encouragement of Hadley’s mother, Hadley won the US Arabian National Hunt Seat Medal Class, in Louisville, Kentucky. Hadley was just 13 at the time and faced a competitive field of entrants from all around the country. Following this milestone in Hadley’s life, Judi sent Hadley, along with one of Judi’s own horses for Hadley to ride, to John Turner and Jack Hammond of Thumbs Up Farm to further her riding career. Hadley had a very successful career competing in the Junior Hunter and Equitation divisions, both on Judi’s horse and her own, which Hadley’s family purchased on Hadley’s 16th birthday. Hadley also had much success in the jumper ring.

Building a Career

In January of 1993, Hadley made the move to Oregon to take a grooming position with Rich Fellers. After one long summer of traveling and learning, she took a position running Mary Nash’s school horse program and exercising horses for Buppy Gordon. Since then, Hadley has also groomed for Prestige Arabians of Scholls, Oregon. She has ridden and trained green ponies for Caroline Kuney. Most recently, Hadley has been training, teaching, and showing as an assistant trainer for two years for Linda Worley of Cornerstone. Concurrently, she worked in a full-time job as an estimator and purchaser for a national construction company for five years until June 2002. At that time, Hadley dedicated her time to her Hunter/Jumper training career.

Competition Highlights

Some of Hadley’s competition highlights include:

	Winner several years in a row of Washington State Hunter Jumper Association year-end divisional awards in Hunt Seat Equitation on the flat and over fences.
	Awards in the WSHJA Junior Hunters.
	AHSA (now USAE) Zone 9 awards for Junior Hunter 14 and under and the 15-17 age group
	Hadley qualified numerous times for the USET, ASPCA, AHSA and Thunderbird Good Seat and Hands medal finals
	Zone 9 awards for Amateur Owner Hunters as an adult.
	Numerous awards in several jumper divisions.

Origins of Allynbrooke

How did Allynbrooke come to life? Hadley’s family purchased five acres in Lakewood, Washington when she was 15. Hadley and her brother ran the small five-stall facility for which they established the name Allynbrooke (their middle names). At a relatively young age, Hadley took on the responsibility of running both the business and horse end of things at the small facility. Later, when Hadley’s brother took a position as breeding manager, she continued to run the facility while attending her senior year in high school.

Hadley recently brought back the Allynbrooke name in her own Hunter/Jumper and Equitation business and looks forward to many years of success and good times with her students.

The Importance of Balance

Hadley has a lifelong passion for horses and riding but she also places tremendous value on education and developing other life interests. She encourages her students to do well in school and continue to college to find careers that suit them best. Hadley herself is actively engaged in continuing her own education. She provides a positive role model for her students by juggling her business, school, and home life, always seeking balance among them.