Short Form BIO 

Doing things with international panache comes naturally to Lori Sarner. She is as much at home on a horse at London’s Hyde Park Riding Club as she is at  her beloved Pegasus Riding Academy in Palm Springs. Lori also grew up with horses  in Minnesota, her birthplace, and Chicago where she lived for thirty-three years.

Combining her love for horses and her commitment to humanitarian causes, she has been known to bring a horse into a hotel grand ballroom for charity benefits and to maneuver octogenarians to mount a horse for the first time in her therapy riding classes at the Pegasus Riding Academy for the Handicapped. As President and head instructor of the Pegasus Riding Academy, she spends three days a week in the riding ring leading the therapy sessions to children and adults of all ages. During summers she teaches equine therapy for the Riding for the Disabled program in London, whose patron is Queen Elizabeth II.

LORI SARNER
Palm Springs, California
London, England
  
  
  

THE REAL LORI:  "If you want to meet the real Lori Samer, come out to Pegasus some Saturday morning," said the stylish socialite/philanthropist and wife of author/attorney Harvey Sarner. The Pegasus Riding Academy for the Handicapped is easy to find: Just take Cook Street north from either Palm Desert or I-10, past Vamer Road, until the pavement ends. Continue another 1/2 mile and you will enter an atmosphere so powerful that one visit can change your  life. There the real Lori, in T-shirt and riding boots, works her jodhpurs off, lifting, leading, praising and literally rescuing the desert's most severely disabled children from a life of bedridden anonymity. It is not depressing.  It is awesome. Information: 772-3057. Betty Francis