MOLLY BROCK

As a child, Molly spent summers with her cousins in Inverness, 

a small beach town in Northern California. It was here 

that she fell in love with horses. 

She and her cousin Ruby spent every day with the two family

 ponies, Peanuts and Swami, swimming in Tomales Bay 

and galloping along the Inverness Ridge tops. 

They gave the ponies endless baths with too much 

soap, trimmed their manes and forelocks with big 

kitchen scissors, and tried spending nights in the 

paddock, getting no sleep with the ponies 

pawing at their sleeping bags.

Starting in the Childrens' H/J when she was 11 she 

showed consistently through Juniors, A/A's and A/O's. 

she became a successful competitor in  Equitation, 

Medal classes, and jumper divisions in Northern 

California, training with Patty Ball, Gry and Duncan 

McFarland and Hope and Ned Glynn. 

 Riding was put on hold when Molly entered UC Berkeley 

and joined the rowing team, never imagining it would 

become the focus of her life for the next 15 years.

In 1990 she moved East to train with the United States 

National Rowing Team. She competed in The Pan Am 

Games, two Olympic Trials, and won a gold medal in 

The World Rowing Championships in 1999. 

Rowing competitively eventually came to an end, and her 

love of horses became her focus again. 

Molly and her Mom Sue bought a small horse farm in Petaluma and began 

a rehab/retraining program for Thoroughbreds who's racing careers were over. 

Some became sport horses, others pleasure horses or pasture buddies. Molly's mom sat in the stall of a horse on stall rest for a month and read to him every day. 

It was here that Molly began teaching riding and and found that she enjoyed it, calling on her years of being coached herself as an elite rower.

During this time Molly began going to horse shows with a talented, rowdy 

Holsteiner named Carl, aka Tivoli. Molly and Carl shared a 

deep connection and he was with her for 17 years 

until he passed at age 25. 

In 2013 Molly moved to Southern California 

and has been teaching riding and training hunter/jumpers ever since. 

She is a well respected coach and competitor, 

and a passionate advocate for the well-being of horses.