Lucchese won an 11-9 victory over Piaget in the Bombardier Pacific Coast Open final on Sept. 4, but it wasn’t a gimme. Some victories are all the sweeter because of the struggle, and Piaget put up the fight of the season. “Piaget played fabulously, but it came down to the horses,” observed Ambassador Glen Holden […]
It was another great year for the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo in San Juan Capistrano, which drew a capacity crowd, sent cowboys home with more than $185,000 in prize money, and raised $100,000 for local charities, said event chairman Gilbert Aguirre. “It was smashing success,” said the cattleman, who operates a 23,000 acre working ranch […]
Local Southern California fox hunting clubs the West Hills Hounds and the Santa Fe Hunt have merged, effective with the 2011-2012 season, scheduled to begin in September. The clubs will combine hound packs and base operations out of SFH’s headquarters in Temecula. The move is expected to increase efficiencies and expand membership, said WHH’s Mitchell […]
New Zealand was never on the list of places I absolutely had to visit. It’s rather remote, and for me—a German-born dressage trainer who has been living and working in Southern California for the past 20 years—it always seemed kind of remote, and in no way a nexus of equestrian sport. But when an international […]
After winning the Warsteiner Prize on July 13 – beating top international competition including her brother-in-law Ludger Beerbaum on Chaman and Laura Kraut on Teirra – Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum announced the retirement of the incomparable Shutterfly, now 18 and notching his 10th competition at the World Equestrian Festival CHIO at Aachen, Germany. “The victory in the […]
Charreada gets a cameo in Chris Weitz’ film A Better Life, which opens today from Summit Entertainment. The plot centers on the relationship between a Mexican gardener and his teenage son, who hovers precipitously on the edge of gang life. Illegals living in Los Angeles, they move through a sort of shadow world, struggling to […]
It’s trendy to buy in Europe, but nice to have other options. Against great odds, some superb breeding operations have sprouted in the U.S. At an age when most women are retired, Jeanne Schamblin runs a successful business and a champion-producing breeding operation. Her Sierra Vista Sporthorses & Ponies in Bakersfield specializes in breeding top-quality […]
Leaving the juniors behind, 18-year-old Lucy Davis ignited the adult phase of her career with a stellar four consecutive grand prix victories on the HITS Desert Circuit in Thermal, Calif., including the prestigious $200,000 Lamborghini Grand Prix of the Desert on Nemo 119. It’s been a breakout season even by Davis’ standard of steady and […]
I had no idea where the impulse had come from. If you’d met me 10 years ago, you wouldn’t have guessed that buying a horse would lead to one of the greatest experiences of my life. Between my career as a recording artist and my life offstage as a husband and father of seven, it […]
