Jan Ebeling

Jan Ebeling moved to  the USA in 1984. Jan and his wife Amy own and operate their own training and sales facility, The Acres, in Moorpark, CA.

He is a distinguished international dressage rider and trainer. Jan is an active clinician travelling countrywide teacing classical dressage and competitive riding.  Jan was an apprentice under the late German Master Herbert Rehbein and earned a Bereiter license.

Jan began competing as a United States citizen in 1998. That year, aboard Gucci, Jan finished as Reserve Champion at the Intermaediare I Championship held in Gladstone NJ as part of the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions.

In 2000, Jan found his way back to the winner’s circle in Gladstone. This time aboard Ricardo, Jan topped the field to win the Intermediare 1Championship.  In 2002, he again earned Reserve Championship honors aboard the grey gelding Liberte, owned by Ann Romney.

Jan achieved success again in 2003 at the Gladstone Championships and posted third and fourth place finishes aboard Feleciano and Liberte respectively.  Jan’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.  While in Santo Domino, Jan was the highest ranked US rider and clinched the Team Gold for the USA team.  He finished 5th overall individually with the stallion, Feleciano.

In 2006 Rafalca, a 1997 Oldenburg mare was purchased for Jan to ride and compete.

That year, Jan found himself with two mares, Rafalca and Sandrina, and a young stallion Louis Ferdinand, all promising partners. Competing again at Gladstone for the Intermediare Championships, Jan and Rafalca achieved third place. In 2007, Jan and Rafalca made their debut in the Grand Prix arena during the World Cup in Las Vegas where he had been asked to demonstrate the Grand Prix test for a full house before the actual competition began, and after a standing ovation, realized that Rafalca had the talent to become an international Grand Prix horse.

In the fall of 2007, Jan was awarded a USET training grant and made the decision to return to Germany, taking all three horses. Whilst in Germany Jan once again went to work with Wolfram Wittig.

Subsequent competition success proved to the wisdom of the decision to make the trip, Ebeling and Rafalca returned to Las Vegas for World Cup 2009, this time representing the US along with the other two horse and rider partnerships that qualified.

In 2010, Jan and Rafalca were selected as alternates for the USA WEG team. Jan won the 2010 CDI W in Saugerties in September, both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle.

Jan will be implementing  his classical training techniques at his Equidays clinics where relaxation, rhythm and connection with the horse are imperative.