Shan de Wey, LVT, Trainer, TI Tech

   Ms. de Wey is a veterinary technologist, licensed race trainer in 6 states and teaches college level courses in every discipline including Horse Husbandry through Advanced and Professional Horsemanship  in all forms of riding and driving. She successfully introduced dressage classes to the local community colleges as well as teaching privately at the ranch. She is a certified farrier, graduating from California State Polytechnic Institute with a 4.0 average.

   At the age of 4, Ms. de Wey began her classical training with an Austrian riding master and has continued her studies of these principles throughout her life. She has successfully completed all over the U.S. in  dressage, hunters/jumpers, 3 day eventing, and driving as well as qualifying for the World Championships 2 years in a row in breed competition. With a specialty in training the stallion for competition, she has been invited by several fox hunting clubs to ride these stallions in the hunt, (something not usually accepted), as well as the show ring.

   She has been breeding sport horses for 30 years, adhering to specific breeding principles to produce the only the highest quality horses for the discipline intended. Her daughter was champion of California at 11 years old in her age division in hunters, jumpers, eventing, and medal classes. One of Ms. de Wey’s horses of her breeding short listed for the Games in Barcelona.

   Ms. de Wey trains horses of all breed types and all competitions. She is the sixth generation of professional horsemen originating from Prague, Czechoslovakia and northern Spain, who were either officers of the Cavalry or family members that  competed and trained sport horses in Europe.

   Shan also worked for 4 years with world renowned animal importer/exporter Bill Chase who maintained compounds in South Africa and Fla., and world authority  Antonio Gomez who was  an ornithologist specializing in predatory birds. She has handled many species of wild animals, personally handling, shipping and caring for exotic animals, Shan delivered the first two cougars by land to Detroit for advertising the Mercury Cougar.

   Working at the Crandon Park Zoo in Miami, Florida, Shan was in charge of the Bengal tigers and helped raise the first cubs born in captivity.  Having extensive knowledge of the Everglades, Shan brought in many species of snakes to the Miami Serpentarium, and well as saving endangered species of animals, including alligators, Florida panthers, and poisonous snakes.  Her experience in this unique area adds to her qualifications for imaging zoo animals as well as equines.

   Shan de Wey is an Advanced Thermal Imaging Technician.

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