About Us
We have a wonderful group of customers and horses at Shadowbrook. Our clients have a wide range of ability levels in all disciplines, with juniors and amateurs, as well as a mixture of young horses and more experienced horses. At Shadowbrook, we teach the riders about responsibility, dedication, hard work, patience, and feel as they develop the skills and understanding of how to be a good horseman. The horse learns about trust, responsiveness to the aids, strengthening and desire as they become seasoned athletes. At Shadowbrook, we love every part of this process and enjoy seeing how both the horse and rider learn and improve daily.
Meet the Shadowbrook Team
JENI BROWN
Owner / Head Trainer
Jeni Brown is the owner and head trainer of Shadowbrook Stables in Moorpark Ca. Since 1998 Shadowbrook has trained many successful horses and riders at all levels in the Hunter, Jumper, Equitation, and Pony Divisions. Shadowbrook’s riders have been Champion in many medal finals, hunter championships, and jumper classics on the West Coast and have competed in the USEF, WIHS and in the ASPCA Maclay Finals.
Shadowbrook’s horses and riders have also won many year-end awards in Hunter, Jumpers and Equitation for Open, Amateur and Junior Divisions. Jeni has also been the recipient of the Sportsmanship award for LAHJA and SFHJA, and in 2011 received a National Professional Affiliate award from USHJA.
Jeni has served on the board of directors for a few local horse show organizations and believes in giving back to the equestrian community. She was President for the CPHA for 12 years and currently serves on their board. She was on the SFHJA Board for 10 years and served as President for 3 years. She was on the LAHJA Board for 8 years and served as President for one year.
Jeni grew up at her parent's riding stable, also named Shadowbrook, in southern Vermont. She attended St. Lawrence University, in Canton NY, and in 1991 she graduated with a Bachelor of Science with honors in Psychology and Mathematics. She was Co-Captain of SLU's Equestrian Team and President of the Riding Club.
Jeni is always excited to go to the barn, and truly loves the process of training the horses and the riders. Seeing their improvement is so rewarding for Jeni, she enjoys going to the shows but not because of the ribbons they win, but to witness and celebrate the progress and improvement of the horses and riders. Jeni is so proud to be a part of that process and share in their victories no matter how big or small.
EMMA LINDSTROM
Assistant Trainer / Rider
Emma Lindstrom grew up spending her summers riding in Sweden and the rest of the year riding and competing in Southern California. She spent 2 years as a working student for Karen Healey and finished a very successful Junior career in the equitation showing under Karen's tutelage with competitive results in all the major equitation finals including the National Finals back east.
In 1998 she went to work for Otis Brown Jr in Nashville, Tennessee. She spent 4 years there training, showing, teaching, and working there at Brass Lantern Farm. She had a lot of success developing and showing many young hunters as well as training many successful riders. In 2002 she returned to California and after a few years graduated from CSUN with a Bachelor's degree in Child Development and Psychology.
In 2003 she started working with Jeni Brown at Shadowbrook Stables in Moorpark, CA. She is extremely dedicated and passionate about her life with horses. She has amazing talent as a rider, competitor and instructor. Many young horses have developed into wonderfully trained and suitable mounts for children and adults due to her knowledge and patient training. She is wonderful at training and preparing the horses for their riders. She also really enjoys teaching the children and adults, watching them learn and improve as she shares her love of horses and riding with them.
Our Facility
We are located at the Southern California Riding Club, in Moorpark. Shadowbrook has the exclusive use of 2 outdoor lighted jumping arenas. The facility has s a covered arena, lots of large turn outs, a 6 horse covered Eurocizer, and miles of trails around the agricultural fields to ride out of the ring. The barn stalls are all 12x12 and have comfort stall mattresses. The pipe stalls are all 24x24. The horses are all fed hay 3x a day, the stalls are bedded with bag shavings and cleaned twice a day.
