September 28th, 2014
Congratulations to Olivia Brown and Cash, the best of 36 entries in the Villas at Rancho Valencia Welcome Grand Prix at the 2014 Sacramento International Welcome Horse Show. The pair finished double-clear in the jump-off, taking first place by less than a...
January 2nd, 2013
We are proud to announce that Harley Brown is now sponsored by Finish Line as our supplement sponsor. Harley is the only sponsored rider from the West Coast, and joins a team that includes George Morris, Michael Matz, Anne Kursinski and Chris...
December 15th, 2012
Reprinted with permission of Horse & Style Magazine.
“Interesting” is an optimistic way to define Harley Brown’s rollercoaster year in 2012. The native of Australia, who is a well-known face on the West Coast grand prix circuit, put other goals on hold in 2012 to focus on making the Australian Olympic Team. He came achingly close with his veteran partner Cassiato, only to be left off at the last minute. Not to be deterred, Harley returned home to California in midsummer, picked up two grand prix wins with Cassiato, and prepared for a big move. After much soul-searching, Harley Brown Equestrian relocated from its former base in San Luis Obispo to the more competitive grounds of Northern California’s Silicon Valley.
Now, with a new home at the Portola Valley Training Center in Menlo Park, a young grand prix prospect and the support of his clients and family, Harley is turning toward his 2013 goals with renewed focus and an open door.
And while he’s looking forward to what the coming year brings, he wouldn’t trade away the recent lessons learned.
“It...
December 1st, 2012
Article reprinted with permission, California Riding Magazine, December, 2012.
Australians Harley and Olivia Brown are not afraid of change. Harley first came to the United States in 2003, with a horse to sell and plans to head home after he’d done so. But he liked the horse, Blue Diamond, and the weather also, so he changed plans, kept the horse and set up shop in California! Olivia followed with their then-infant daughter Zoe a few months later.
Zoe is eight now, the Browns are regulars on the West Coast show circuit, and Harley and his top Grand Prix horse, Cassiato, are frequent contenders and winners at international level Grand Prix. The pair just missed out on their bid to represent Australia at the London Olympics.
This past September brought about another change: their move from San Luis Obispo to the Portola Valley Equestrian Center in the Bay Area’s Menlo Park. They sold their thriving Central California business to their capable former assistant Amanda Garcia and headed north. The Browns were attracted to the Peninsula because it’s dense with hunter/jumper activity as well as non-horse attributes that will benefit their family, which includes 18-month-old Dexter.
Cassiato and a few...
Brown Snags Both First and Third in the $30,000 June Classic III Grand Prix, presented by EquiFit, inc.
June 26th, 2012

San Juan Capistrano, CA - Seven nations represented the field of twenty horse and rider combinations in Sunday's $30,000 June Classic III Grand Prix. Nearing the end of the qualifying round, Harley Brown (AUS) was the one to catch with both jump-off qualifiers, Angelli and Cassiato. With two riders to go, Nicole Shahinian-Simpson was able to break through and qualify her mount, Picturized, for the jump-off. Course designer Jack Robson set a track that challenged both young and seasoned horses and asked riders surprising questions that resulted in several refusals, numerous unlucky rails, and an unfortunate spill where both horse and rider walked away unscathed.
"Some unfortunate rails and time faults out there today," Robson shared of the twenty horse and rider combinations attempting to master his course. Of the sixteen efforts, many of the victims accrued faults at the oxer-oxer combination, the large triple bar to vertical combination and coming home to the vertical-oxer combination. "It was a national standard and a rebuilding type course for those who've been here all three weeks," Robson continued, "some different lines to approach and options to take that made it a unique class."
Rusty Stewart, coming off...
from Horse & Style Magazine
February 1st, 2012

Grand Prix rider and trainer Harley Brown, of Harley Brown Equestrian in San Luis Obispo, CA traveled north on January 17th and 18th to conduct a two-day clinic at Eden Valley Stables in Saratoga.
Brown taught select groups in three height sections on the fundamentals of keeping a steady connection on the flat, over pole exercises, and over a course of fences. The information-packed, two day clinic was an ideal preparation for the upcoming winter shows.
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