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Thank you for your interest and
WELCOME! The Lakeside Frontier Riders are a community of individuals that love horses as a core part of their very being – and that enjoy the company of others with the same mind-set. We are a group of fun loving people that also understand the awesome responsibility of preserving and maintaining mother nature.
We enjoy family and are leaders in the community of Lakeside, California.
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A Brief History - About The Lakeside Frontier Riders |
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As a teenager about 1958, I was invited by my friend Susie Merrill to come out to Lakeside with her parents to attend an Easter Sunrise Service that was put on by the Lakeside Frontier Riders. Her parents owned the Rancherette a western ware store that was in Lakeside and later moved to Lemon Grove. During the late 50's and into the 60's the club owned their own arena where the Cactus Park is located now. They sponsored lots of horseshows during that time. When I joined in 1976, they had progressed into sponsoring and participating in Competitive Trail Rides under the national organization, NATRC. Richard Becker and Ken Truesdale, along with Lew Muzzy put on the "Have a Heart" Ride every year from Pine Valley up to the Laguna's.Participants rode either 25 miles or 50 miles and they were judged in their horsemanship and their horse’s condition. Of course this is how we raised money for our club. |
While I was President in the early 80's Cindy Simmons and I had heard about a Trail Trials competition being held in Norco and we went and participated in that ride. We decided that this would be the way we could progress to the next stage for LFR by bringing the very first ever Trail Trial to San Diego County and for the next 12 years, that is how we raised money for our club treasury. I also during that time reintroduced the Easter Sunrise Services for the first time in about 20 years, and thanks to the generosity of the late Dr. Herring, we held both of these events at his ranch/polo field with the entire river bottom at our disposal. John and Rhonda Kabot and Jack Crook along with many others kept this going for the next few years. The hardest thing about the Trail Trials was finding 12 people to be judges and be willing to be scattered along the river bottom at various locations while riders encountered the next obstacle, but this hard working club always has had good members who would step up to the plate when needed. |
By the mid-90's so many other clubs were sponsoring
Trail Trials so we headed in a new direction again for our fund
raiser and the club voted to sponsor the Breakfast Poker Rides and
to this day, the Poker Ride has been our main source of funding. We have always gone as a club to the Los Vaqueros Group Horse camp in the Cuyamaca's. In the 32 years I have been a member I have missed only 3 years and we have watched our kids grow up playing by the hours, to our grandkids and now even some great-grandkids! The Lakeside Frontier Riders has been a great family oriented riding club and over the years we rode as a group in many parades from Coronado to the Mother Goose Parade all the way down to the Brawley Cattle Call. People have come and gone, but the club is a living
entity onto itself and I am sure it will continue on into the future
for many years to come. Janice E. (Carter) Herrera |
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The Lakeside Frontier Riders were originally named
the Aztec Riders and were formed in Lakeside around 1948. It is not
clear when the name changed to Lakeside Frontier Riders.