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horses exceptional services and training, along with amazing social events, for nine decades. Located in the foothills near Pasadena, just twelve miles
he members of the Flintridge Riding Club in California have much to be proud of when they toast their 90th Anniversary this year. Founded in 1922, when four families started a private club for social and equestrian pur- suits, the Club has provided both riders and
from downtown Los Angeles, FRC has forty acres of beauti- ful grounds in an incomparable setting. Three jumping are- nas, two regulation dressage rings, a cross country course with natural obstacles and a galloping track, as well as access to the miles of trails in the horse-friendly city of La Canada Flintridge and the nearby San Gabriel Mountains, makes Flintridge Riding Club unique in this concrete village we call Los Angeles metro. Much of FRC’s illustrious past is credited to the late Jimmy
A. Williams, who became Riding Master in 1956. He estab- lished an instructional program that for decades produced top national and international competitors. Several students during that time won the California Professional Horse- man’s Association Championships: Susan Hutchinson in 1971, Kappy Howlett in1972, Francie Steinwedell in 1974 and Anne Kursinski in 1977. Susan Hutchinson, on Best Bet, won the Pacific Coast Hi-Point Working Hunter Champi- onship for six consecutive years. She also won the $50,000 Grand Prix at The Oaks five times in six years. At the national level, very few riders have ever won both the AHSA Medal Finals and the ASPCA Maclay Finals at
Madison Square Gardens, but Flintridge can claim two, Mary Mairs and Francie Steinwedell. Additionally, the (AHSA) Martini and Rossi trophy for Horseman of the Year has been awarded to FRC notables Jimmy A. Williams, Mary Mairs Chapot, Marcia Williams and Mrs. William P. Roth. In 1978, Jimmy Williams was asked by United State Eques- trian Team (USET) coach Bertalan de Nemethy to select
Opposite Page: Group photo, 2009 This Page - Top to Bottom: Ladies at Flintridge, 1928; Kids at Flintridge, back in the day. 73
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