About Lisa
Lisa and Elegant
Lisa Kursinski is the head coach and show rider for Farndale Stables. She is also the younger sister of 5 time Olympian, Anne Kursinski.
Lisa started riding at 4-1/2 years of age at Flintridge Riding Club in Pasadena, CA.
As a junior, she was Pacific Coast Hunter-Jumper year-end “A” Champion Hunt Seat Equitation rider – 14 & under
Champion Hunt Seat Equitation, 15 thru 17
“A” Champion Junior Working Hunter rider, 14 & under
Champion Junior Working Hunter rider, 15 thru 17
She consistently qualified for all the medals. She was second in the Onondarka Finals, California Professional Horsemen’s Association Finals, and the Barbara Worth Good Hands & Seat Finals, in which winners of a full year’s national competitions compete to be top rider. She had multiple USET wins (US Equestrian Team).
During college she spent a year at Westmoreland Davis Equestrian Institute in Leesburg, VA. She has ridden and shown horses coast to coast and in Europe. As an adult, she won the Regional Championship in Three Day Eventing in Las Vegas.
Lisa also won the Green Hunter Classic at Spruce Meadows, Calgary, Canada. From 2005 through 2008, she successfully competed on the “A” hunter/jumper circuit in California. She had multiple wins with her 2nd year green/regular working hunter Elegant.
July 2008 she competed in her first two Grand Prix at The Pebble Beach Equestrian Classic Horse Shows I & II.
Since 2009 she has worked with Mark Farndale at Farndale Stables located at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. Where she continues to ride, teach and prepare clients and their horses for the horse show arenas in equitation, hunters and jumpers. She also continues to compete in all the hunter divisions from baby green to the rated open divisions as well as the jumpers divisions. She also is a groundperson at the shows. Lisa loves to teach and is an excellent clinician.
Her coaches include legends in the equestrian world: Jimmy Williams, Susie Hutchison, Anne Kursinski, George Morris, Marcia Williams, Tad Coffin, Jimmy Wofford, Hilda Gurney and Kamila DuPont.
Riders she has coached include Francie Steinwedell-Carvin, Jill Walton and Vanessa Brown.