Our Team

Profesional Horseman Serving the Profesional Equine Industry

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Jeff Peller

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Jeff Peller of the Peller Estates Winery family is the man behind the vision of Sweetgrass Equestrian. With the completion of this incredible property, his dream is now a reality. Avid horseman, actor, theatre director, producer and entrepreneur. Jeff was the artistic director of the actors studio of Canada where he taught acting and directed many successful theatrical productions. His artistic resume includes many productions that he has acted, directed and produced to rave reviews. Jeff is no stranger to ambitious projects and big ideas. This is apparent when you walk through the doors of Sweetgrass Equestrian.

Jeff is also a marathon runner who recently ran his sixth consecutive Boston Marathon on April 16 2019. Jeff has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to support finding a cure for Alzheimer’s. He runs each year in honor of his mother Connie who past away from Alzheimer’s May 28th 2013. He is member in good standing with Canadian Actors Equity Association and ACTRA. In 1998, Jeff was nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year by the Hamilton & District Chamber of Commerce. In 1999, he was nominated for and won the award for Commitment to Education and Training at the Greater Hamilton Tourism & Marketing Awards.

Jeff’s love for horses has been with him all throughout his life. He has competed in Hunter/Jumper and Steeple-chasing but his greatest love remains Fox Hunting where he is now Hunt Master of the Wellington Waterloo Hunt. His dream was to have a premium property for his horses to reside and with Sweetgrass Equestrian that dream is now a reality. Jeff’s horses are family members and this is evident to all who visit this exquisite property. Welcome to the Sweetgrass Equestrian family!

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Tiffany Nanchin

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Tiffany Nanchin is from Sault Ste Marie and with the support of her amazing parents and brother David, started on her horse journey at the age of 3 with her first pony Queenie. She instantly fell in love and never looked back. Always knowing she wanted to study and learn about horses and make their lives better.

Tiffany started formal lessons at age 10 with her horse Tiara and began working in show barns as well as keeping her own horses at home all through high school. After moving to Wellesley at 18 (bringing her horse Solo-now 21 from Sault Ste Marie, who she credits Buck Brannaman for teaching her enough to stay alive with this horse who had been troubled) with her she was granted many incredible riding training and high quality management roles in a wide variety of disciplines, breeds and also led her into working with breeding operations, training and starting young horses as well as training stallions. She was chosen for a few hand picked apprenticeships with leading trainers where she gained enough experience and expertise to build a career professionally training horses.

Tiffany has experience in western vaquero traditions, classical dressage, roping, jumping and shares in Jeff’s passion with her mares Dolly and Rosebud for foxhunting. She believes good horsemanship is good horsemanship regardless of the discipline you’re riding. She enjoys different aspects from all disciplines. Tiffany is using her diverse experience to develop a small breeding program at Sweetgrass Equestrian with many exciting upcoming breedings and she now focuses on the training and development of Jeff and her personal horses as well as working very hands on with the rest of management to keep the day to day operations of the facility running smoothly. Tiffany is grateful for the wonderful opportunities which have led her to where she is now and also can’t wait for what the future holds.