Thursday July 3, 2003

Meet the USET’s 2003 Pan American Games Dressage Squad

Jan Ebeling

Jan Ebeling has been a major U.S. force since the USET Intermediaire I Championship in 1998, when he began riding as a United States citizen. That year aboard Gucci, Ebeling finished as Reserve Champion at the Intermediaire I Championship held in Gladstone, NJ as part of the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions.

In 2000, Ebeling found his way back to the winner’s circle in Gladstone. This time aboard Ricardo, Ebeling topped the field of the nation’s top Intermediaire I horse-and-rider combinations to win the Intermediaire I Championship. In 2002, he earned Reserve Championship honors aboard the grey gelding Liberte, owned by Ann Romney, in the Championship.

No stranger to the winner’s circle at the Intermediaire I Championship, Ebeling achieved success again in 2003 at the Festival where he posted third and fourth place finishes aboard Feleciano and Liberte respectively. Ebeling’s 2003 finishes in Gladstone earned him the right to represent the United States at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.

Before coming to the United States in 1984, Ebeling worked as an apprentice under late German master Herbert Rehbein and earned his berreiter, a German license to train horses. In 1984, he moved to the United States to work along with U.S Olympian Robert Dover while Dover was preparing for the ’84 Olympics.

Today, Ebeling and his wife, Amy own and operate their own training and sales facility, The Acres, in Moorpark, CA.