Olympian Anne Kursinski To Hold Equestrian Clinic In Redding

REDDING — Five-time Equestrian Olympian champion Anne Kursinski will hold a three-session clinic in Redding on Saturday, October 30, at Sunset Hill Farm, which is open to area residents.

Each clinic session is two hours with a fee of $350 to participate. A spectator’s fee is $35. A luncheon and meet and greet with Kursinski will take place midday. Contact Anne Vogel at 203-496-2440 to register.

Numerous sponsors will be donating equestrian gifts for clinic participants, and in the spirit of the property’s unique artistic history, there will be arts and crafts vendors displaying their work.

Kursinski has been representing the United States for more than 30 years, starting her international career while still in high school competing on the US Nation’s Cup Team at Spruce Meadows. In 1983, aboard Livius, she won individual and team gold medals in the Caracas, Venezuela, Pan-American Games. She became the first woman to win the Grand Prix of Rome, Italy, in May of 1983. She has been a member or alternate member of five US Olympic teams (Los Angelos-alternate-Livius; Seoul-team silver and individually fourth place-Starman; Barcelona-team fifth place-Cannonball; Atlanta-team silver-Eros, and Beijing- alternate-Champ).

In 2008, she went to her fifth Olympic Games in Hong Kong, as the US Gold Medal Team’s reserve rider.

The Sunset Hill Farm property was once home to Anna Hyatt Huntington and husband Archer Milton Huntington. Huntington, an accomplished sculptresses, created some of her most famous Equestrian pieces while living on this property.  Some of her molds are on display in the main barn, which was built on the ruins of the Hyatt-Huntington mansion — destroyed by fire in the early 1900s.