2020
We are getting ready to show at the November & December BEST series at the Prince George's Equestrian Center.
AVAILABILITIES: Fall 2020
Our stalls and field board slots are full but we encourage interested hunter/jumper riders to check us out and join our waitlist. We are a collegial group of intelligent, accomplished individuals who warmly welcome new members of the SLS family.
As to horse leases,
we have one big, gorgeous boy available for half-lease. His name is Zack. He is a 16'3 3/4 Art Deco line paint. Sweet as can be. For intermediate to advanced riders who want to brush up their flatwork, poles, cavaletti and cross rails. His lease is $400/mo. and the rider must be in a lesson program with our trainer, Lyndi Prettyman Caruso. She is widely know on the schooling and AA circuits. She is an r-rated hunter judge and recently judged the jumper ring at Swan Lake. Please call 703 944-9456
for further info and thanks!

A 16' 1.5" Palomino/TB Hunter who tucks, at 2'6" yet. What more could you want? Now owned and loved by Kate. Thank you Allie Taisey for this perfect ride.
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We adore our love-bug, adorable "ho-ny" (horse/pony) resident, Lucky Day, now owned by the gorgeous and wonderful Kate G..
Here is a link to one video of Lucky:
We extend a huge welcome to not-so-new-anymore boarders Annie and Kate. They took stalls earlier in 2020. Kate is now the owner of that jaw-dropper 16' 1.5" palomino above, Solar Flair. Kate is one of the kindest, sweetest people you will ever meet. Annie is a very accomplished lawyer at probably the best litigation firm on the entire planet (you know which one I am talking about.) Annie is a brilliant asset to the farm and we adore her. Her fab 5 year old imported Czech Warmblood Jasper has an incredible brain and won blue at his very first show earlier this year.
Katie field boards the lovely TB mare Missy with us. They have made great strides with us.
We also extend a hearty congratulations to boarder Megan, whose Mucho by All Time Fancy, lives
with us. She and Mucho clean up in the Hunter Pleasure show ring. Megan has bred to this famous stallion several times and just became a horse mom once again.
We wish you all the best with your new baby!
FALL 2020
AVAILABILITIES
Soft Landing Stables is perfect for an equestrian returning to college, to grad school or working in downtown DC, or Old Town, Alexandria.
Open stalls are rare, though we do have a wait-list.
News
Owner Bonnie Erbe's 25 year old former show horse, Geronimo, passed away in December, 2018. Bonnie remains bereft by the loss, but was heartened by the fact 200 of her FB friends joined her to celebrate his life and described how he touched their lives, including Samantha Bowers and Miranda Jones. Miranda is now riding the A circuit in Texas, where she lives. She started back to riding on Geronimo more than a decade ago:
Below is owner Bonnie Erbe' showing Geronimo as a jumper:
Capital Improvements:
In July we installed two Big Ass fans in our indoor for comfortable riding in DC's hot, muggy summers. They also warm the indoor in wintertime.
Here is owner Bonnie Erbe' standing under one on her horse, Que:
Please text 703 944-9456 for more info.
LESSONS: Our world-class French Classical dressage trainer has one opening.
We are so excited about our newest team members. We are thrilled to have Allie leasing Flair. Those two were made for each other! Boarder Jessica with her fancy OTTB Riley is extremely knowledgeable as a former pro Cross-Country rider. Nikki has her loveable old man Izzy and Rebecca's Rebound is the handsome young flirt taking care of our two mares.
Olivia and Emily are loving Lucky. Francine is in love with our fancy Stan. Megan and Liz are enjoying our talented Art Deco sporthorse of color, Zack.
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How many barns are lucky enough to have such wonderful peeps?
First, one of our boarders featured the barn in a Discovery Channel program. Then, another boarder brought in a world-class trainer for a clinic. Another former riders' parents featured her jumping Soft Landing Stables' Standout on a California wine label. How cool is this???

Spring 2017announcements
We recently had a Storeo cookie outside the indoor arena. A Storeo cookie is a reverse Oreo with the chocolate on the inside. So, Ghost, Stan & Ross being ridden by three beauties, Katy, Katri & Alex, make up this Storeo:
We were so lucky this May to host an in-house only clinic with top international rider and trainer, Jean Paul Magnen. That is Jean Paul below with Mary on Argos participating in a jumping lesson at the clinic. More on Jean-Paul below the picture.

Many thanks to M. Magnen and to our long time boarder Michel Gauthier, for setting up the clinic. Michel and Jean Paul are close friends. This clinic would not have happened without Michel. Mercí beaucoup! Pictured is Mary A. on her gorgeous, fancy mount, Argos, during their lesson. More pix and videos to come.
"Jean-Paul Magnen is a French "Ecuyer", a professor, an international competitor, and a trainer who spent 28 years of his career with the "Cadre Noir" in Saumur France. The Cadre Noir of Saumur, like the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, teaches the classical art of the "Haute Ecole", and maintains the tradition of academic dressage as defined by Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere.
The Cadre Noir is also the home of the French National Riding School whose mission is to teach and train French and foreign professionals in all equestrian disciplines.
Not only within that prestigious institution but also internationally, Jean-Paul Magnen is know and recognized as an elite horseman, one of those very, very few horseman in the world who competed on the international scene at the Grand Prix/**** level in all three of the Olympic disciplines: eventing (1974 to 1982), jumping (1983 to 1992), and dressage (1995 to 1999).
Magnen's accomplishements in those three Olympic disciplines are not limited to the competition arena. His track record is equally impressive when it comes to the training of horses. During in career, Jean-Paul personally brought more than 50 horses (6 in dressage, 30 in jumping and 15 in eventing) to the Grand Prix/**** level for the Cadre Noir and for private organizations and individuals.
Over his career at the Cadre Noir/ENE, jean-Paul was responsible for:
- training French instructors in eventing,
- Head Coach of the Cadre Noir competition eventing team,
- training French instructors in jumping,
- training international athletes in all three disciplines,
- Head of international relations and international clinics,
- Deputy Chief of Competition Department (all disciplines)
- Head coach of the Olympic team of the Republic of China.
One of his students received a bronze medal in individual jumping at the Sydney Olympic games in 2000. Jean-Paul is also the official coach of the Algerian jumping team and is involved in the training
of the Japanese, Turkish and Saudi Arabian national jumping teams.
He is also a tutor for the FEI, the international Federation for Equestrian Sports, governing body for all Olympic equestrian disciplines. He teaches the courses for coaches that the FEI organizes worldwide. As part of his teaching and clinic activities, Jean-Paul Magnen started to come to the United States on a regular basis."
We had a Storeo cookie outside our indoor arena today. Trainer Lyndi says that's the opposite of an Oreo cookie---two greys on each side of a black horse.

Random Farm Pictures:


Good-bye Tommy & Julia: In November Tommy & Julia returned to their native Germany. We miss them! They were everything a BO could want in a pair of boarders. They are wicked smart, accomplished horsemen, fun to be around and great people. But now we have friends to visit in Germany!


View of indoor arena from 10-acre pasture.