Bio

About Shauna Clagett LMP LAMP NCTM

Shauna started taking hunter lessons when she was just the tender age of four at Brookwood Equestrian Center. She also attended a Christian riding camp every summer where she rode western, gaming, some hunter and a lot of trail riding.

She joined 4-H at the age of ten when she was given a completely wild half-Arabian for her birthday. At the time she joined 4-H, the green horse program had become extinct, so her mother Lesley Clagett took up the responsibility of heading a new program so Shauna could get all the help and experience possible. Lesley reintroduced green horse classes and arranged clinics with trainers such as Darick Anderson and Richard Shrake, and Became a clinician herself training the Linda Tellington-Jones methods for training green horses for 4-H groups. One of Shauna's biggest influences came from the man Lesley bought the horse from; Ron Downing. Shauna attributes Ron to the very basis and foundation of her horsemanship. Ron is a respected Horseman and member of the Back Country Horsemen who made a living with his horses; training, breeding, respected Farrier, teaches packing classes to the community and schools, and much more. He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from Backcountry Horsemen, and is known in his community as a "Horseman's Horseman".

In 4-H, Shauna rode hunt seat, western, trail, performed fitting and showing, groom squad, and gave public presentations. She started showing in open shows with her half-Arabian Orben Ameer in halter and started riding saddle seat which led to Zone and Washington State Horsemen (WSH).

Shauna then became a member of WSH and a lifetime member of the Pinto Horse Association of America (PtHA) and showed on the pinto circuit for Wren Ranch Arabian Pintos and in Zone for Sunset View Stables (Saddlebreds.) Shauna then went on to work as a show groom for National barns across the country from Florida to Washington such as Meadow Wood Farms (Polish Arabians) before returning to her hometown of Rochester Washington and becoming a riding instructor with her own clientele.

Some of her best accomplishments include Canadian National Champion Halter Gelding and several top-fives in both halter and under saddle with Pinto Champion, multiple Horse of the Year, and multiple Region of Merit earner CHR Diamond Jim. "Jimi" as he was known, was a Region of merit earner in Halter, Three-gaited/Park horse, and more, and was the WSH year end high point Driving horse and English horse in the State; all breeds. Jimi went on to become a lesson horse and helped many of Shauna's students win WSH year end high point first places in their respective divisions and age groups in only their first year of showing.

Shauna attended Lynn Benton Community College for Farrier Science and is a certified Farrier. She studied under the Brotherhood Working Farriers Association's master farrier Larry Beuly. She passed the BWFA national exam. While in school for her Farrier Science she also had a stallion in training with Russ Brown of Diamond B Training Stables and took three months of Reining lessons on Arabian National Champion reining horses.

Shauna still continues to learn and grow by occasionally taking lessons at the top stables in their respective fields and different riding styles in which she had less exposure to, when the opportunity arises. Such as taking lessons at Legacy Hunter-Jumpers during her stay in Redmond for a massage class. She has an open mind, and a wealth of information that will habitually continue to grow.

Shauna is a graduate of the Bodymechanics School of Myotherapy and Massage and went during the time the school was the first and only massage school in the country based in a hospital. She passed the National exam with all high scores, making her both Nationally Certified and Licensed with the state of Washington. She also graduated from the North West School of Animal Massage. Shauna then went to work for Bodymechanics School as the Animal Massage Executive Director and wrote the curriculum for the Washington State required large animal massage class for Large Animal endorsement, and was the sole instructor. She also toured with the school founder and taught as an instructor in his nationally renowned class "Secretes of Deep Tissue" all over the country including New York, Florida, California, Oregon, and even Hawaii.

Shauna was also the co-owner of Absolute Arabian Wear and used her artistic talents to create Arabian Native Costumes.

After a three year marriage that forbade her from the show circuit Shauna tried jumping back into the show world by working as a groom once again for a National Arabian training facility in Yelm at Ron Copple Training, after seven months of grooming she then went back to work as an equine massage therapist and was asked to speak at several events such as the Trainer's Challenge and the Wild Horse Adoption Fair in 2010.

Shauna moved to North Carolina for maternity leave to have her first child. Her baby girl, Bryn, was born November 6th 2010 and they moved back to Washington after Easter 2011 and Shauna earned her real estate license working as a REALTOR for Windermere Peninsula Properties in Allyn Washington. After the birth of her second child Eva in 2013 she had been a stay at home mom until working for a local Girl Scout camp as a summer wrangler once again giving riding lessons to youth jumped her back into horses once again.

Now her oldest is old enough to be a "clover bud" and Shauna is the new co-leader of the South Bay Thurston county 4-H club for 2019 and will be starting her own 4H group in 2020 called "Horse Feathers". They live in Allyn Washington where she breeds Purebred Bengal cats, and works out of three different barns around Rochester and Olympia Washington areas. Two training horses and the third barn running an alpaca business. She is the proud owner of Platinum Marwan M and plans to promote and show him in halter next year. See more about her alpacas by clicking the Facebook link below, and see more about the TICA registered Bengal cats by visiting their web site http://velvetsunspot.wixsite.com/bengals

Below is a video of Platinum Marwan M as a foal (not his mother at the end of video)