Please contact us privately regarding horses or boarding, as well as retirement specials. High Meadow Ranch was founded in 1974 by Col. Pat Sullivan (USAF Ret.), who served at Vandenberg Air Force Base while working on the United States Space Shuttle program. Sullivan had been involved with equestrian competition ever since childhood - originally riding Thoroughbreds - but wanting to find a horse
bred for more classical competition. After searching Europe and interviewing various clinicians, she chose the Trakehner as the most elegant of the warmbloods, having a more trainable temperament than the Thoroughbred. High Meadow Ranch has as its mission the breeding, training, and advancing of sport horses in the classical tradition - including the arts of dressage, hunting, and jumping. The ranch is located in the Santa Ynez Valley, about 130 miles north of Los Angeles on the central coast of California. This beautiful valley is an equine paradise. Comprised of 37 acres of pasture, training facilities and residence, High Meadow Ranch provides a unique resource for breeding, residence, training, and care - in one of the most beautiful parts of the western United States. The horses at High Meadow are bred for all the traditional disciplines: dressage, jumping, and eventing. The ranch has large irrigated pastures, a veterinary center, foaling stalls with observation rooms and large insulated box stalls. All horses are turned out every day and there is round the clock supervision. The pastures allow the horses to exercise freely, and allows the foals to develop as nature intended.
