Pepperdine University is reigniting its equestrian program and has named as coach Erin Rorabaugh of Fairview Farms. The team is expected to be competing in Intercollegiate Horse Show Assn. events by October. It will be based at Rorabaugh’s Pegasus Equestrian Center in Agoura, just minutes from Pepperdine, off Kanan Dume Road. It becomes one of […]
The journey to Bishop Mule Days on Memorial Day weekend was a long and strange one this year. It was long, because I drove from Los Angeles to Prescott to pick up a trailer. Had I known the drive from Prescott to Bishop would take 11 hours, I would not have spent the night drinking […]
Zero faults, 55 seconds: That secured the American rider, McLain Ward, the victory with his 10-year-old Artos son, Rothchild, in the Yageo Prize speed class at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany, July 17. The 35-year-old McLain Ward, who lives in New York, won team gold at the Olympic Games in 2008. He […]
Nineteen-year-old Los Angeles rider Ricky Neal jumped to victory at the CSIOY Hagen Grand Prix in Germany. Neal was one of five U.S. young riders that participated in a four-city Nation’s Cup tour of Europe this summer. Riding as a team, the U.S. teens showed stellar form, winning in Austria on June 11, taking second […]
Calling all cavaliers! The History Channel is looking for equestrian combatants to participate in “Full Metal Jousting,” a new reality series that begins shooting in October. Those who have ‘the knight stuff’ will compete for a $100,000 prize. “We’re taking jousting out of the 13th century and bringing it to modern times,” casting director Sémi […]
With no new confirmed EHV-1 cases since June 3, the California Department of Food and Agriculture on June 20 declared the outbreak contained. Containment is based on the fact that California has gone more than 14 days from the last clinical onset date without any new confirmed cases. The neuropathogenic strain of Equine Herpes Virus-1 […]
Plans are in the works to replace some of the last open space on the Palos Verdes Peninsula with a private golf course and a massive housing complex. For a period of time it appeared that the equestrian community would come to the rescue, but now it seems that the group has splintered into two […]
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 […]
The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks is putting the finishing touches on its landmark Los Angeles County Trails Manual. The document, expected to be issued in late May, is the first cohesive blueprint for trails development that the county has put together, and is highly anticipated by members of the equestrian community. […]
There’s a new schooling show in town! Pegasus Equestrian Center in Agoura hosted a top-notch program on Dec. 11 that organizer Erin Rorabaugh said is the trigger for what she hopes will be four such shows this year. The idea, she explains, is to “run it like an A-rated horse show, but at a schooling […]
