March 2018 FRC Member Newsletter

Spotlight On Our Members
FRC’s March Member of the Month is Lilia White, of El Recuerdo. Lilia has been a member of the
Foothills Riding Club on and off for around 20 years! She first heard about the FRC through a friend in
the area, Dale Gibson. She originally joined in the late 1990’s and even volunteered as the newsletter
editor for several years before getting too busy with teaching and training. While Lilia left the club for
a short period of time to focus on other aspects of her life, she has always stayed involved in the
community through many avenues.
Besides having a standard office job, Lilia is a licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Aromatherapist and
Reiki Master that works on both humans and horses. Lilia is the lead teacher for the Massage Therapy
night program at Isothermal Community College and one of the certified instructors for the Groom
Elite program at ITCC, as well.
Even with her crazy schedule, she still finds time to teach, train the horses at her farm and then travel
others to work with their horses, too. Beyond all of this she has an equine appraisal business, White
Consulting Enterprises, LLC. They provide Certified Equine Appraisals that comply with the Uniform
Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.
Lilia has lived in the Landrum area since 2002. She and her family had been looking for property in
Landrum for about three years, but could not find the right place (I’m sure we can all relate). Then,
one day when they came to see another house in the area and they drove past her [now] farm with a
‘For Sale’ sign in the yard. They got out of the car, peeked in
the windows of the house and knew immediately that it was
the place!
Lilia keeps six of her own horses and boards three others
currently. Of her six horses; two are used as lesson horses,
two are her competition horses she trained herself, and two
are having fun hanging out in the pasture keeping the grass
at bay. Her discipline of choice is show jumping, but she was
inspired by two of her horses to compete in other disciplines
such as Dressage and Hunters.
Lilia is originally from Mexico, where she had a decorated
career in competitive Show Jumping and was very well
known. She has trained with some of the greats including
the Mexican Olympians Alberto Valdez, Gerardo Tazzer, and