Marianne Jeffers

Owner & Director Marianne Jeffers was born in Denmark and grew up there.  Marianne and her family have been involved with horses in different ways.  Her father was a third generation saddlemaker in Denmark.  Her love and interest for horses grew after she moved to California.  She has worked with many breeds over the years, but has a special interest in sporthorses for dressage and jumping.  She travels to Denmark every year and visits breeders as well as sales barns.  Marianne also enjoys breeding and currently enjoys spending time with her Oldenburg filly Hermosa and Holsteiner mare Zafira.

Pearlie Rohrbacher

Trainer & Assistant Director Trainer, Pearlie Rohrbacher has been riding since she was 4 years old and teaching horseback riding since she was 17. She attends instructor clinics regularly, including the Pony Club Instructors' Clinic, the George Morris Instructors' Clinic and the ICP for the US Eventing Association (as a demo rider and auditor). Pearlie has dual citizenship (US and Danish), and she grew up visiting Europe every summer. She rode extensively in Denmark and showed in dressage and jumpers there. Pearlie also rode in Pony Club as a child, where she learned valuable lessons about horse management and correct, balanced riding and earned her C-3 rating. She competed in hunter/jumpers in high school and college. She competed in IEL (Interscholastic Equestrian League) for Polytechnic High School in Pasadena, and she also competed in IHSA (Intercollegiate Horse Show Association) for the University of Southern California. She started 3-day eventing in college and has competed up to Preliminary level. Her goal is to compete at the international level in both 3-day eventing and dressage. She has also fox hunted and enjoys riding her horses in the open. She believes in cross-training the horse, and her goal for her training program is to create happy, well-rounded horses and riders. She continues her own education by riding with international level riders and trainers in both dressage and eventing, such as Jimmy Wofford, Jil Walton and Karen O'Connor. She recently apprenticed under Grand Prix dressage rider Kristine White.