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Riding for Reading Receives Grants for 2007 and Expands Its Programs
Burbank, California. Riding For Reading, a non-profit organization (501 (c)3) dedicated to promoting reading, literacy, and education through equestrian sports and activities, is pleased to announce that it has received two important grants to augmen ... Read the full article

USC Trojans Join Riding For Reading
Riding For Reading Teams up with the University of Southern California Equestrian Team BURBANK, CA - Riding For Reading is pleased to announce that the University of Southern California’s Trojan Equestrian Team has signed up to help Riding For Rea ... Read the full article

Three Equitation Riders Win Saddles From Shaw Saddlery At Woodside Fall Finale
Woodside, California. The Woodside Fall Finale (Sept. 29 - Oct. 2) concluded Langer Equestrian Group’s seven show Woodside series with the Woodside Equitation Championships for Junior, Amateur and Pony Riders. Shaw’s Saddlery provided saddles to the ... Read the full article

Riding For Reading Expands to Include Seven Events in 2007
Burbank, California. Riding For Reading, a non-profit organization (501 (c)3) dedicated to promoting reading, literacy, and education through equestrian sports and activities, is expanding its program in 2007. In addition to the Riding For Reading B ... Read the full article

Riding for Reading heads into Fall with two great events!
Riding For Reading will conclude 2008 with two great events. Langer Equestrian Group, Inc. hosts the Riding For Reading Benefit Show (Sept. 1) at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. Not only does the show boast the largest Riding For Reading Class in the country, but the entire show is a benefit for the charity which is a non-profit organization (501 (c)3) dedicated to promoting reading, literacy, and education through equestrian sports and activities. ... Read the full article

Leg Jumps Into its Woodside Hunter/Jumper Shows
Woodside, California. Langer Equestrian Group, Inc. jumped into its first two of seven USEF “A” rated hunter/jumper shows of the 2006 show season at the beautiful Horse Park at Woodside. The Woodside Spring Preview (April 27-30) and the Woodside Spri ... Read the full article

Trips to Maui Are Hotly Contested by Trainers
After the Golden Gate Classic in Woodside, California, Jenny Davis is still in the lead for Langer Equestrian Group’s Woodside Trainer Incentive with 235 points. If she can hold onto it through the Woodside Labor Day Classic and the Woodside Fall Finale, she will be winging off to Maui for a well earned week-long vacation. She has her work cut out for her as Beverly Jovais is not far behind her with 228.5 points. Although Davis has earned more points at each show the two attended, she skipped the Woodside Circuit Opener and Jovais took the opportunity to close the gap. ... Read the full article

Riding for Reading at the Oregon Country Classic
The non-profit Riding for Reading program galloped on to Oregon for its second class of the year at The Country Classic in Wilsonville Oregon. This was the second year that the Country Classic hosted the class, in which riders from first through twelfth grade compete in a hunter pleasure class to win grant money for their school’s library. ... Read the full article

Madison Cameron Wins Riding for Reading at Oregon for Second Year
The non-profit Riding for Reading program galloped on to Oregon for its second class of the year at The Country Classic in Wilsonville Oregon. This was the second year that the Country Classic hosted the class, in which riders from first through twelfth grade compete in a hunter pleasure class to win grant money for their school’s library. ... Read the full article

Good Guiness is Great at Woodside in $20,000 Bayfest Grand Prix
Patrick Seaton and Good Guiness not only won the $20,000 Bayfest Grand Prix the second week of the Woodside Summer Circuit, but Seaton also earned a $5,000 rider bonus for winning two of the three major jumper classes at the 2008 Woodside Summer Circuit aboard the same horse. If he can make it a hat trick by clinching the $30,000 Golden Gate Grand Prix, Seaton will be the first rider to claim the Woodside Jumper Accumulator bonus worth $20,000. ... Read the full article

Langer Equestrian Group Pledges Hurricane Relief Donations With....
Three Different Horse Shows Burbank, California. As the post-hurricane crisis unfolds in Mississippi and Louisiana, Americans everywhere want to help. Langer Equestrian Group, Inc. decided to participate by making a donation to the American Red Cr ... Read the full article

Equitation Riders Shine at Woodside Fall Finale
Equitation was the main theme at the Woodside Fall Finale (Sept. 28-28), the final show of the seven show series at the Horse Park at Woodside. The show featured medal finals and equitation championships. The California Professional Horsemen’s Association has two of their medals, the CPHA Child/Adult Finals North and the CPHA Horsemanship Finals North at the Woodside Fall Finale. ... Read the full article

Woodside Labor Day Classic Wraps Up With a Flurry of Finals
Competition was intense in the hunter rings over Labor Day weekend at the Horse Park at Woodside, as the second to last show in the 2008 Woodside Show Series concluded with a flurry of hunter and equitation finals on Monday morning. At the Woodside Labor Day Classic (Aug. 29 – Sept. 1), the quiet, tense spectators watching during the second round and work off of the Carousel Junior/Amateur Medal Finals finally took a collective breath when rider Jill Stevens was named champion. Stevens was among the top eight riders called back for a work off that included starting counter-canter at the entrance to the ring, halting on a straight line after a two stride, and jumping the last two fences without stirrups. ... Read the full article

Eventing Venues Named For Pan American Games Selection Trials
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named Woodside Horse Trials Menlo Park, CA, May 24-27, 2007 and the Jersey Fresh CCI**/CCI*** at the Horse Park of New Jersey in Allentown, NJ, May 31-Jun 3, 2007 to host the selection trials for thi ... Read the full article

Riding For Reading Sets New Record at Los Angeles Event!
“Libraries are built over time, and we can always use all the help we can get for our libraries,” says Hart School District liaison Pat Willet. Comments like these are usually completely unrelated to horse showing, but thanks to the Riding For Reading charity, and riders such as eighth grader Ashlyn Matheus, horses are helping school libraries in a very big way. With a record 55 riders competing for $10,000 worth of library grants, the enthusiasm surrounding the very special Riding For Reading class was palpable at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Labor Day. ... Read the full article

Ponies, Ponies, Ponies!
Ponies will be the stars at two Langer Equestrian Group shows this fall. The Woodside Labor Day Classic (August 29 - September 1) features both the Northern California Pony Hunter Final and the Woodside Pony Equitation Championship, in addition to a full selection of pony hunter and equitation classes. Shaw’s Saddlery sponsors the Woodside Pony Equitation Championship and offers great prizes to top finishers. The winner will receive a gift certificate toward a new saddle, along with embroidered dress sheets for the top three, and a special prize the winning trainer. ... Read the full article

Three Different Professionals are Maui Bound
Burbank, California. For the second year in a row, Langer Equestrian Group, Inc. is sending three professional horseman to Maui for a week long stay at Marriott’s Maui Ocean Resort. The vacation prizes are awarded to recognize trainers. “I remember t ... Read the full article

Bay Area Equestrian League Names 2006 Champions
Woodside, California. The Bay Area Equestrian League has concluded its 2006 season and is presenting awards to champions in 23 different hunter/jumper sections and divisions. Sponsored by Shaw’s Saddlery (www.shawssaddlery.com), champions are receivi ... Read the full article

Amateur Sarah Gavigan Snatches Victory From Pros in the $30,000 Golden Gate Grand Prix
Patrick Seaton wanted to win the $30,000 Golden Gate Grand Prix so he could claim the Woodside Jumper Accumulator prize of $20,000. Peter Breakwell wanted to win because he was tired of finishing second to Seaton. Macella O’Neill wanted to win because she is a fierce competitor and has a string of solid jumping horses. But in the end, a former Zone 10 Young Rider jumped a little higher, turned a little faster, and dared to leave a stride out to claim her first grand prix victory. ... Read the full article

Ponies at the Preview
There will be ponies everywhere at the National Preview at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center (Nov. 5-9). The show will host the West Coast Pony Finals, the Emerson Burr Horsemanship Awards Program, and the LAHJA Pony Medal Finals. ... Read the full article