About Our Team

Women of ALL Ages and ALL walks of life ride with the Rainbow Riders, from Teachers to Accountants, from Homemakers to Small-Business Owners—WE come together in Teamwork, Friendship, and a Love for Horses and this Country. 

 
  • The Rainbow Riders were formed in 1986

  • Featured in Ramona Home Journal, July 2007

  • Originally endorsed by rodeo legend Casey Tibbs

  • Endorsed by PRCA Stock Contractors and 18-time National Finals Rodeo Announcer, Bob Tallman

  • OLD SPANISH DAYS Fiesta Horse Show & Rodeo & Fiesta Parade, Santa Barbara, CA

  • "Fiesta of the Spanish Horse"  fund raiser for Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center,  since 2002 Burbank

  • Del Mar National Horse Show “Night of the Horse”, since 1993

  • Featured on the front cover of “Riding Magazine” and in an article in “Horse Illustrated”

  • Top performing drill team for three years at the Western States Drill Team Competition in Reno, Nevada

  • Movie debut, cast in the TV movie “Horses and Champions” released in 1996

  • Regularly featured at the Ramona Round-Up Rodeo & Parade, Ramona, CA

  • Regularly featured at "Bulls Only" in Lakeside, CA

  • Regularly featured at the Lakeside Rodeo & Parade, Lakeside, CA

  • Numerous rodeos throughout Southern California, Nevada and Arizona

  • Joan Embry’s Membership Appreciation Day for the President’s Association of the San Diego Zoological Society

  • Joan Embry's Benefit for the US Olympic Equestrian Team

  • EqWest- The Mane Event West 2000 “A Spectacle of Horses by the Sea”, Del Mar, CA

  • "Cool August Nights” Horse Extravaganza, Burbank, CA since 1999 

  • Del Mar Race Track “Celebrate the Horse Week” 2001

  • Soviet Navy, at the invitation of the US government during their “1990 United States Friendship Tour”

  • Troops returning from Desert Storm

  • Special Performances for the Fran Joswick Therapeutic Riding Center & T.E.A.C.H. Therapeutic Riding School

  • Special Performance benefiting St. Vincent de Paul at “Cowboys for Kids” Rodeo

  • Featured guests on KUSI TV Channel 51 with Rod Luck

  • Featured guests on KSWB In Zone Sports with Troy Hirsch

  • Horse Fest at Miramar Stables 2004

  • Olympic Grand Prix and Dressage trials, 2000, 2004, 2005

  • Valley Center Rodeo 2005

  • Festival of the Animals fund raiser for Burbank Humane Society, Burbank 2001 and 2002