Herbert M. “Herb” London, the operator of Rock Creek Pack Station since 1947, died March 31 at his home in Ojai. He was 92. A memorial fund for trail maintenance on the Mono Pass Trail System has been established in his honor. “My dad was a huge advocate of the wilderness, and he wanted to […]
Opportunities to pass on something you love to your children can be hard to come by in the digital age. So when I heard about Rock Creek Pack Station’s three-day Parent-Child Ride in California’s Eastern Sierra, I knew it was just the thing for me and my 11-year-old son, Teo. Friends from the L.A. Equestrian […]
The United States Dressage Team came away from the World Equestrian Festival CHIO Aachen with much to celebrate—notably Steffen Peters’ second-place finish in the Grand Prix Freestyle with Ravel, and his sweep of the Prix St. Georges and Intermediaire classes with his “small tour” horse Weltino’s Magic. The annual German show, which ran July 8-17, […]
Running a 65-horse stable on top of a busy competition and training schedule doesn’t seem like it would leave much time for starting a sideline business, but San Diego’s Shannon Peters has done just that, with her ShowRingShine boot polishing kit. The wife of Olympic rider Steffen Peters and an accomplished dressage competitor in her […]
The venerable Del Mar National is a favorite show for Southern California equestrians and spectators alike, and this year’s Dressage Week did not disappoint, as some of the state’s top horses and riders turned out for both the CDI 3* Y/J and Open classes. Olympian Steffen Peters and Ravel continued their winning ways, claiming the […]
Stables and riding schools throughout Southern California are once again gearing up for a new crop of young summer riders. There are camps for virtually every horse lover from 5 to 18 years old—sleepaway and day camps, programs for those wishing to develop their Western, dressage and jumping skills and camps designed for riders with […]
Eating a piece of apple pie is probably the last thing you’d expect a big-time jockey like Mike Smith to be doing on his day off. But maybe Smith figured he’d earned it. His most famous mount, Zenyatta, had just won the Eclipse Award for 2010’s Horse of the Year, and Smith had already put […]
The historic art deco race palace known as Hollywood Park, in Inglewood, Calif., has thrown open the starting gate on its spring concert series, with music under the stars most Friday nights through May. The track, which was opened in 1938 by the Turf Club under the chairmanship of Harry Warner of Warner Bros., and […]
Lehua Custer’s love of horses began while she was growing up in Hawaii, where she rode Western pleasure, rodeo, jumpers and dressage. After graduating from Pepperdine University with a degree in psychology, she focused solely on dressage and for nearly 10 years was the assistant trainer at Keenridge Farm in Moorpark for two-time Olympian and international […]
The annual Dressage Affaire is a favorite of riders and spectators alike, but this year’s event — March 10-13 at the Del Mar Horse Park — was special for another reason: It saw Guenter Seidel’s return to competition. The Cardiff resident and three-time Olympian sustained an “open-book” pelvic fracture in Germany last June while riding […]
