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“ I was born to do what I do now,” Larry
Langer explains in a pensive moment. Sitting back in
the chair behind his desk in his office at the Los Angeles
Equestrian Center, he goes on, “I am comfortable
in every aspect of my life, it is not a ‘fight’ now, it’s
exciting and I really do love every minute of it. There
are always challenges, but I never feel like I would want
to do anything else, just this. What I want to be when
I grow up is exactly what I am!!”
Born in Brooklyn, New York on February Taking a break from his studies, he had the
19, 1941, he was raised in Manhattan when rare opportunity to work for Victor Hugo-
Manhattan was not a good place for a child Vidal at the famous Cedar Lodge Farm in
to be raised. His parents recognized that and Stamford, Connecticut. Throughout the next
he was sent to a country setting and a boarding several years, horses took on a role for him as
school in Tarrytown, New York, Westchester a dual career. Horses went along with whatever
County. The school had a stable and his else was happening in his life.
mother promptly signed him up for the riding Moving to California to finish college at
program; $350 a year and he could ride every Northrop University in Inglewood, California,
day. Boarding school and this arrangement was Larry obtained his first college degree in
good for Larry, as it put him in a sport he would Mechanical Engineering and went to work
never have been able to afford any other way. for North American Rockwell Corporation as
His first ‘official’ trainers were Frank and Ann a research engineer. While finishing college,
Grenci, at Fox Hill Farm in Pleasantville, NY. and then for the couple of years he was at
This was also his introduction into the working Rockwell, Larry also worked at some of the
world and his first job in the horse business. local stables in Burbank and Glendale to keep
Working for them throughout high school, and his foot in the horse industry: Mike Manesco
then through the summers, Larry got his first Stables, Booth Stable and Mariposa Stable for
taste of the horse industry, and he loved it. those that remember that far back! Life without
From there his journey took him to college at horses was not an option for Larry. Among
Cornell University. Larry’s students were Gina Groth and her sister,
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