Welcome to Los Pinos Equestrian Center!                      

The owners of Los Pinos Equestrian Center are Stace and Marlene Moss, and Marlene’s mom, Joan Ellis. We have 9 horses, 4 cats and a dog.

Our past equestrian activities have centered around distance riding – Competitive Trail and Endurance. We have been competing for 11 years and would be happy to share any of our experiences. Prior to that, we have a combined 75 years of riding, training and caring for horses.

We may hold a couple mini-clinics for those who would like to learn more about distance riding. Arabs are quite suitable for these sports (although you will find just about every breed out there), so we have several arabs and have also worked with mustangs. We’ve owned Arabs, Quarter Horses, Saddlebred crosses, Paints, Morgans, Mustangs and Mustang crosses – and you’ll see more in the future! This is a sport with very little discrimination – so every rider, every horse, and all kinds of tack are accepted!

Our work with distance riding has provided an education in proper horse care to ensure a horse is fit enough to travel safely on a long trail ride. We have also become experienced at teaching a horse to be safe and calm in difficult trail situations. We are very willing to help you work with your horse to ensure you have a safe, fit horse for the best riding experiences.

Marlene is a saddle fitter, specializing in adjustable saddles. Stace has a lot of experience in this area as well and we will probably hold periodic saddle fitting clinics. Always feel free to ask any questions in this area as we think that proper saddle fit is very important for the comfort of the horse – and can also help reduce vet and chiropractic bills. Stace is our farrier, and we can recommend several good farriers in the area as well.

Previously, Marlene operated a web based tack business called Moss Rock Endurance. It is still in operation and owned by a friend in Black Forest. We have opened up a small store in the main barn at LPEC. If you have any requests for products you’d like to see, just let us know! It will be a store for the whole community. Please ask if you have any questions regarding the tack you use for your horse.

Although Stace was relatively new to horses when Marlene got him involved in 1996, he works very naturally with difficult horses and really enjoys all the activities that we have undertaken. He has focused on horses that need special attention, including troubled mustangs and nervous trail horses. He has also trained to be a farrier, focusing on the barefoot horse, and has a good eye for balance and trimming each foot true to itself.  Stace is primarily a web developer, so if you are in need of a web site, feel free to ask. He is also good at almost everything mechanical or structural.

Marlene and Joan have been around horses at some level for most of their lives. This includes ground work with young horses, starting young horses to saddle and retraining difficult horses to become safe family trail horses.  Joan has a special connection with horses, she checks all the horses very early in the morning and is always aware of the tiniest signs of a problem.

We have lots of plans and ideas for LPEC. If you can think of a show or clinic that we should hold, just let us know or get us in contact with the right people. We will initially host some small, fun horse shows for those that are just getting started, as well as bring our expertise to local clinics. More formal shows are planned for the future.

We have many plans for Los Pinos as an educational equestrian center for the entire community - from offering training and lessons to a wide range of clinics. We have also implemented a number of changes for boarders, all included in the board fee, including regular turnout, frequent and regular stall and run cleaning, stall bedding and included grain feeding and high quality hay fed at a level sufficient for the size and exercise level of each horse.

Let us know if you are in need of training or instruction, if we can't help you personally, we can come up with someone who can!