Brianna Krugeramerican Meadow's Equestrian Center

  

Bri Noble is the founder and owner of Mulatto Meadows, an equestrian business dedicated to expanding the accessibility of riding and horsemanship to communities historically excluded from the equestrian world. She is especially passionate about introducing horsemanship and riding to the youth of color and economically disenfranchised populations.

  1. Brianna Noble on the set of the Xfinity Mobile “My World” ad campaign, which was shot in downtown Los Angeles in July. Noble’s Mulatto Meadows operation, which bases out of a boarding facility in Martinez, California, has also been approved as a Pony Club riding center.
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Wellington is fortunate to showcase some of the top competitive horse professionals in the industry. One such individual not only rose to the top of all the equitation championships as a young rider, she also went on to be one of the finest FEI show jumpers in the world. Brianne Goutal-Marteau has clocked miles competing in the US, Canada and Europe – winning multiple international grand prix competitions, and has represented the US at several Nation Cups.

Brianne has consistently been recognized throughout her career for her sportsmanship and exceptional riding skills. Earlier in her career, she was awarded several junior championships and developing rider awards by the USEF. For over a decade she has either won or placed in the top ribbons at nearly every international competition including; WEF, Devon, Washington International, Old Salem, The Hampton Classic, Tryon, Upperville, Spruce Meadows, Fontainebleau, Chantilly and Paris (France), Falsterbo (Sweden), Beervelde (Belgium), and Barcelona (Spain). Her accomplishments throughout the world are literally too many to mention!

In 2017, Brianne and her husband welcomed their first child – and while she was grounded from competition, Brianne discovered her further enjoyment of coaching clients. She began to develop that side of her business, while riding a smaller string of horses. Throughout 2016/17 season she still was quite successful in the show ring, earning several top finishes at WEF , Tryon and the Devon Horse Show.

Brianne is currently pregnant with their second child, and once again contemplating the balance between family and career. “My focal point right now is training. A few years ago I realized how much I love the process of working with students and their horses and decided I wanted to make training a focus. I train a couple of wonderful families and our focus is a broad spectrum from pony hunters to junior hunters to U25 and Grand Prix jumpers.

“My main horse is a 13-year-old mare called Viva Colombia. I bought her last year from the Hymowitz family and she’s really become all I hoped she would! I am planning to start back up competing in the beginning of WEF with the goal of jumping 3 or 4 Saturday night Grand Prix’s over the circuit.

“In terms of other competition horses, my string is very light at the moment. I will compete a few horses for my clients to make sure they are in good order for them and am hoping to find another one or two horses with bright futures to develop. I am trying to stay patient and allow myself time to figure out the inevitable juggling of it all!”

We wish Brianne and her family the best of luck with the arrival of their second child, and we’re confident that she will balance motherhood and her professional equestrian pursuits with grace and success. Whether she’s ringside training, or entering the Grand Prix ring to compete, she is a wonderful example of the caliber of equestrians who return season after season to the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center.

25-year-old horse enthusiast and budding entrepreneur with a social justice bent Brianna Noble knew exactly what she was doing when she drove her horse trailer to downtown Oakland last week. She slung a Black Lives Matter sign, painted on cardboard, behind her saddle, and she rode into the protest looking regal, mighty, and she knows pretty unique.

'Horses bring attention,' she said on Friday when she was one of the first protesters reporters and photographers gravitated toward. And in a subsequent interview with the Chronicle this week she says, 'It’s not too often you see a black woman on a horse in Oakland. 'I’m huge on a horse. I decided I’m going to give them something to look at.'

Brianna Krugeramerican Meadow's Equestrian Center Camp

Oakland protests brought out the Calvary! pic.twitter.com/TIlWIv3PQf

Brianna Krugeramerican Meadow's Equestrian Center San Diego

— Make Love Not War! (@FeelmoreAdult) May 30, 2020

This picture taken by @bethlaberge at Oakland's protest on Friday has gotten a lot of attention.@FitzTheReporter spoke with the woman on the horse, Brianna Noble. https://t.co/PnafwtYX60pic.twitter.com/22ka5P7sBM

— The Bay (@TheBayKQED) June 2, 2020Brianna

Brianna Noble, the woman who rode her horse through Oakland protest, tells her story. https://t.co/mHYv7om3T1

— Tony Bravo (@TonyBravoSF) June 5, 2020

Noble's image, complete with a cowboy-style bandanna for a face mask, has bounced across the globe as the international press — and Twitter — have covered the unrest across America. And with good reason — she upends iconic Hollywood stereotypes of usually white Americans riding into a conflict on horseback.

Brianna Krugeramerican Meadow's Equestrian Center Seating Chart

While black cowboys are nothing new — the Oakland Black Cowboy Association is 46 years old this year, and in Houston, a similar organization has made for viral video fodder at protests in recent days — a young black woman on a horse is a rarer sight, even for Americans.

Noble tells the Chronicle that she grew up among privileged white kids at an equestrian center in Pinole, even though she was not privileged herself. She followed her older sister into the horse world, and acknowledges, 'It’s a very white world. It can be a hostile, racist place to be.' Brianna is no stranger to other equestrians looking at her strangely and questioning how she got into horse riding.

But these days, she's using her unique knowledge for good, and two years ago she founded Mulatto Meadows, which trains and sells horses, and also seeks to provide horseback riding lessons to people of color and low-income kids.

'Horses change lives and inspire futures,' says the organization website. 'Our vision is to change the face of equine culture and inspire positive futures through horses.'

Interestingly, as the Chronicle reveals, Noble's older sister, whom she followed into horse riding, is an officer in the SFPD. And Brianna says she didn't see her and her sister as being on opposite sides of the current unrest.

'To me it’s furthering the movement to have a black woman who wants to see change happen and things done correctly in the system,” Noble tells the paper. “I think that might be a big reason she’s a police officer.'