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    [RC] Actors Who Can Ride--Some Endurance Relevance - Linda B. Merims


    I need to correct myself.  I said:
    
    >Far more relevant to trail riding, if not endurance,
    >is that Capshaw and her husband Steven Spielberg
    >put up $25,000,000 to save the last horse boarding
    >establishment in Burbank that borders the huge
    >Griffith Park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica
    >Mountains in LA...
    >
    >...A few months ago I saw a crawly on CNN to
    >the effect that Capshaw and Spielberg had
    >paid $25 million to save the LA Equestrian
    >Center.  I don't know any more than that.
    
    I was mistaken.  Spielberg and Capshaw did not pay
    $25,000,000 to save the LA Equestrian Center in
    Burbank.
    
    However, they *did* spend $12,000,000 to save a
    local parcel of land in Brentwood (in LA, the foothills
    of the Santa Monica Mountains above eastern
    Santa Monica) used by horsemen that was slated
    for development.
    
    Here is the abstract from the LA Times story on
    July 9, 2002:
    
       "Los Angeles
    
       Spielbergs Keep Brentwood Range Open
    
       Preservation: The director and his wife donate $12
       million for school district land used by horse
       lovers but marked for developers. 
    
       Abstract:
       Saddlebags bulging with cash, movie director
       Steven Spielberg and actress-wife Kate Capshaw
       have galloped to the rescue of Brentwood horse
       lovers threatened by home builders.
    
       Until the Spielbergs' offer, the unused school site
       had been earmarked for sale to private developers,
       who would have built more multimillion-dollar
       homes in the ritzy canyon between Brentwood
       and Pacific Palisades."
    
    The main point stands, however:  recruiting help from
    the powerful to preserve access to equestrian land and
    trails.
    
    Linda B. Merims
    lbm@xxxxxxxxx
    Massachusetts, USA
    
    
    
    
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