Update December 10, 2009
The last 2 months have been very busy. I’d like to welcome several new members to our family.
Claire Doney and her TB gelding Aragorn, Ross Steinbach and his Holsteiner jumper Carte Blanch, and Chris Chun with Hershey, who will be retireing, and his new Wurttemberger gelding Romanow! We are looking forward to great 2010 with all of you.
And also congratulations to Heather and Tim Kaeding-Collins on the arrival of their first child, Cooper!!! Guess it will be time to start looking for a pony for baby Cooper soon!
And last but not least, Lisa Kursinski is now a permanent addition to our barn. Coach, Instructor, Rider, she is awesome. Come by to say hi all the members of Farndale Stables.
Mark
Update Oct. 15, 2009
I’d like to welcome 2 new clients to our barn. Kate Folb and her New Zealand TB gelding Truman. And Sarine Aratoon and her Holsteiner gelding The Illusionist.
This week Sarine and The Illusionist will be showing in the Jumpers. And Martha Post’s mare Evensong will debut in the Hunter division. Good luck to you both!
Horse Shows
Upcoming Shows:
Los Angeles National Horse Show Nov. 11-15
National Preview Nov. 4-8
Show results:
Gold Coast 7 Oct. 15-17
Newcomers to our barn Sarine Aratoon and The Illusionist place consistently everyday in 1.10M
Martha Post’s new mare Evensong shows great promise at her first show. She was Gold Coast 7
Show and Gold Coast Series Res. Champion Pre-Green and Champion Low Hunter. As always, we couldn’t have done it without Lisa Kursinski’s help.
Thank you!!!
Martha, Eve, Mark and Lisa
2009 USDF/CDS Championship Show Oct. 1-4
Watercolor places 6th overall in the CDS Open 1st Level Championships.
The first day we got a score of 73.4% with another 9 for her lengthened trot!!
Thank you Cathy Marx for letting show your wonderful mare. It’s been a blast!
Jaye Cherry has done a fantastic job of turning this jumper rider into a reaI
dressage rider. I wonder how far we can go ???
L.A. International Jumping Festival Sept. 16-20
Heather Collins’ Carmen Reserve Champion 1.10M Jumper! 2nd & 6th
Summertime Blues 5th and 7th 1.15M Jumper, 6th 1.10M stake
Gold Coast 6 August 27-31
Mykiella Lesko & Merlin 2 x 3rd Walk Trot 17 & under in their first show
with us. Congratulations!!!
Carmen gets great ribbons in every class entered 1.15M and 1.20M Jumpers
Cool August Nights August 20-22
Watercolor does it again! We won 3 of our 5 classes and placed 2nd in the other 2. She also wins the Cornerstone/Markel Open 1st level Championship. This mare really loves her new job. We started doing doing dressage in February of this year after she decided jumping was not her cup of tea.
Again a big thank you to Jaye Cherry for all of her help!
CDS Dressage July 4-5, 2009
Watercolor wins 3 of her 4 classes! We competed 1st level tests 2 & 3. Saturday we were 1st and 3rd respectively. Sunday she really stepped it up a notch to win both classes. Scores of 68.889% and 70.541% under judge Louise Koch. And she scored a 9 for her lengthened trot in test 2!!!
Thank you to Jaye Cherry for all of your help!

LAEC Gold Coast 4 June 2009
Heather Collins’ Carmen 2nd and 4th 1.15M jumpers.
Jay Lipman’s Summertime Blues 3rd 1.20M jumpers.
Thank you to Lisa Kursinski!

New for 2009
Hi Guys and Gals,
I have my new website!! And a great big thank you to Karen Krueger for her design.
I will be sending out emails to my clients when I have updated my blog.
Check here for any important dates or any updates happening at the barn or any changes in our schedules.
I’m looking forward to a fantastic show season this year and wishing lots of success to all of you!
Before I forget…I would love to have your comments or suggestions on the new site. Send me some photos of you and your horses by email and I will upload them to the site so we can share the joy and excitement for 2009.
Here’s a photo of the new garden. Lot’s of changes going on and I appreciate all of you for your continued support.

thanks to you all…
Mark