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lives, they still move as one entity but on entirely differ- ent plains. Even though they look nothing alike, people get them confused on a daily basis. Jessica and Tiffany Sullivan are a couple of the amateur


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riders seen up and down the west coast at just about all of the larger shows. They ride jumpers, and on occasion add in a hunter or two. They will quickly and clearly tell you it’s the thrill of the jumper ring that has captivated their hearts. Talking with them it is instantly obvious these two ladies


have a cosmic connection that is not really explainable. They absolutely adore each other, find the other one extremely funny, respect the differ- ences between them, credit each other with their personal accom- plishments and make it clear that to “get” the other one you would have to go through them first! There are five children in the


wo young women, raised together and so much alike, but at the same time entirely different. Inseparable almost their entire


Barrington, Illinois where the girls went at an early age to “play with the horses” and clean tack by the hour, they will tell you they LOVED to clean tack more than ride at that age. Their first riding was on a western pony, Chumley, where


dad would put them on in a western saddle, strap their legs to the saddle flaps, tie the reins around the saddle horn so they wouldn’t lose them, slap the pony on the backside and send them off to ride. “That was the extent of the instruc- tion we had,” says Jessica. “But we loved it and that was how it was done then, pretty scary a thought now but we had a great time!!”


family. Brian works in the finan- cial world and has three children. Carrie is a stay at home mom with three children also, Rob works at Wells Fargo, Tiffany has dedicated herself to volunteering in children’s programs (Compton Jr. Posse among others), and Jessica owns Windsor Pilates Studio. All are tremendously success- ful, but the girls will tell you the best success for the siblings is the kindness so embedded in all of them. The family roots originated in Chicago. The father, Tim


Sullivan, trained show jumpers and race horses while their mother, Gail (Galvin) rode in the Amateur Owner divisions on a great horse named Touch the Sun. Their farm was in


divorced. “Mom was sort of ‘done’ with the horses and my dad. She had four kids to raise at the time and music took over their lives, it was a way to keep us together and besides, we all loved it,” says Jessica “Before we could even speak, all three of us girls


held the violin for the first time and were mesmerized by it,” says Jessica. “It was our main family focus and


But the Sullivan family life took a turn when the parents


lovers in the family,” laughs Tif- fany. “I was always dragging something home and my mom was great about it. She would give a sigh and we would set about building it a suitable habi- tat, sometimes in the house and mostly not!! I think those times, and her acceptance of that part of who I was, had a huge im- pact on me. I always knew I wanted to do something with animals and it probably started then with the orphans I drug in. She was so amazing about it!!”


“Mom and I were the animal


Opposite Page: Tiffany and Jessica at the last show at Indio. This Page (Top): Spruce Meadows with Mom. (Bottom, left to right): Their parent's wedding 1986; Family Thanksgiving 2011; Dubai trip with their brother, Rob; Tiffany and Jessica on a course walk.


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