Educational opportunity to Del Mar Horsepark Oct. 24-25.

The clinic is one of the ways that a trainer can apply to become either a USHJA Certified or Provisional Trainer.

Jennifer Wooten’s Trinity Eventing is off to a fantastic season.

by Cheryl Erpelding

Since having her first child last July, veteran eventer Jennifer Wooten has been itching to get back onto the competitive circuit. From her training bases in Santa Ynez and Agoura, she is bringing a promising crop of students along with her and her Trinity Eventing team is off to a terrific start this season. Outings at Galway Downs and Twin Rivers last month loaded up the program’s ribbon string with rosettes and more are projected through the year.

Sales, training, horsemanship and success distinguish young professional’s program.

by Cheryl Erpelding

Junior rider Amelia Faircloth was happy to get the ride on a new sale horse in her barn last month. Trainer Tara Bemoll gave her long time student a couple of schools on Stanwick and off to Blenheim’s Spring Classic III they went.

Rain, hoof hold-ups and a fixed end-goal date create challenges.

by Emily Flaxman

It’s not been a good month. We have a saying in England, “March - in like a lion, out like a lamb.” And boy, didn’t it just do that.

Starting with 10 solid days of heavy rain, everything got saturated and incredibly muddy. The horses’ hooves never got a chance to fully dry out and I ended up with four of mine suffering abscesses.

Boarding, training and show facility is blossoming with new offerings.

by Kim F. Miller

You could say the Hansen Dam Equestrian Center has been hiding in plain sight. Located within view of the 210 Freeway in Lake View Terrace, the centrally located Los Angeles-area boarding, training and show venue is an equestrian gem that not everybody knows about. That status, however, may not last long as physical upgrades, energized management and marketing and hunter/jumper and new dressage competitions coalesce to capitalize on the property’s many amenities.

Roots & wings rule at hunter/jumper training program.

Sheri Moser and Duncan McIntosh help riders develop roots and horses develop wings. Both are lifelong riders and Sheri earned her rides as a pro, the old school way, by knowing how to take care, from the ground up, from every detail of travel and set up, feeding, cleaning and conditioning of the finest string of Grand Prix Jumpers the West Coast ever had and that won Rob Gage the National Grand Prix Rider of the Year.

Top hunter/jumper trainer brings a bit of the East Coast to West Coast jewel.

Professional rider and hunter/jumper trainer Mickie Sage is living the dream working in a country club setting at the beautiful LuckyJack Farm in Rancho Santa Fe. Last year she found out through some friends that the private facility needed a trainer. Mickie, a certified USHJA trainer, had been running her Mickie Sage Inc. Show Stables in Colorado since 1998. She and her husband, a golf professional for Golf Tec, were ready to say goodbye to cold weather and snowy winters.

Never a dull day at Derby Lane, a small but influential hunter/jumper program in Northern California.

by Kim F. Miller

This year is shaping up a little differently for trainer Vanessa Brown, yet constants remain in that she and her clients continue to be a force in the hunter, jumper and equitation ranks and she continues as an active contributor to the sport.

Eventing trainer celebrates the New Year with a new location and new goals for the show team.

by Sue Schindler

Telesis Equestrian is excited to announce their relocation to beautiful PepperGlen Farm in Horsetown, USA – Norco.

Bay Area trainer transforms an ex-racer into top finisher at Kentucky competition.

by Kim F. Miller

Emily Flaxman hopes to “do well by doing good.” The buzz phrase is borrowed from the social enterprise corner of the corporate world, where charitable endeavors are built into business models.