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Lalita Creighton
Lalita Creighton has lived in Missouri for most of her life and currently resides in Jefferson
County, MO with her husband, their two horses, potbellied pigs, and cats. She started
riding at 8 years of age and started working as a trail guide at a rental stable when she was
13. After graduating college, she bought her first horse and there's been no keeping her off
Missouri's trails since.
She also used to show in local fun shows in classes such as Western Pleasure, English
Pleasure, and Equitation. Lalita has ridden in many places in Missouri including Berryman
Trail and Bell Mountain Wilderness in Mark Twain National Forest; portions of the Courtois
and Trace Creek sections of the Ozark Trail; several Conservation areas such as Little
Indian Creek, Long Ridge, Meramec, Daniel Boone, Rockwoods Range, and Forest 44;
many of the State Parks including St. Joe, St. Francois, Sam Baker, Route 66, Johnson's
Shut-Ins, and Cuivre River; and in the St. Louis County parks Greensfelder, Queeny, Fort
Bellefontaine, and West Tyson. She is a member of the Missouri Equine Council, the
American Quarter Horse Association, and the Show-Me Back Country Horsemen, and will
be registering her horses with the American Trail Horse Association in the near future. Lalita
is also the treasurer for a non-profit organization called United Pet Pig Registry, which is a
registry for pet pigs of any kind and is on the board of directors for Planet Pig, a potbellied
pig sanctuary in Franklin County, MO.
Lalita can be contacted at n2stitch@gmail.com and would be happy to talk 'trail' with you.
Just make sure to put MOtrailblazing in the subject so it comes through the spam filter."
Thanks!
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Lauri Struve
Lauri Struve grew up with horses in northwest Iowa. She was riding her 1st pony long
before she could get the saddle on her, that’s what big brothers were for, and hers got a
work out! Lauri showed horses through high school in 4-H, AQHA and open shows. She
specialized in western pleasure, horsemanship, equitation, halter and showmanship at halter
and trail where available. Occasionally, she would take her pleasure horse through a barrel
pattern.
Lauri spent 14 years in broadcast news, and was the first host of Hoofbeat on Brownfield
Network. She has also been a contributing writer to Equestrian Central.
Currently, Lauri is a 911 dispatcher, and spends her free time riding the trails of central
Missouri with her trusty partner, Shadow. If you hear someone making A LOT of noise
coming down the trail, guiding with her legs, and waving a tree branch to get the cobwebs
and horse flies, that’s her.
Lauri would love to talk you through any issues you and your equine partner are having on
the trail, or be the first person you ride with when you take the plunge and leave the arena.
Soapboxes she may climb on include helmets, the importance of common sense, (which she
occasionally leaves at the barn), picking and choosing information from the big name
trainers, and a few other things that may pop up.
Hopefully her columns will be helpful, and even a little humorous. She can be contacted at
lauris10@earthlink.net, put motrailblazing in the subject.
Lauri Struve grew up with horses in northwest Iowa. She was riding her 1st pony long
before she could get the saddle on her, that’s what big brothers were for, and hers got a
work out! Lauri showed horses through high school in 4-H, AQHA and open shows. She
specialized in western pleasure, horsemanship, equitation, halter and showmanship at halter
and trail where available. Occasionally, she would take her pleasure horse through a barrel
pattern.
Lauri spent 14 years in broadcast news, and was the first host of Hoofbeat on Brownfield
Network. She has also been a contributing writer to Equestrian Central.
Currently, Lauri is a 911 dispatcher, and spends her free time riding the trails of central
Missouri with her trusty partner, Shadow. If you hear someone making A LOT of noise
coming down the trail, guiding with her legs, and waving a tree branch to get the cobwebs
and horse flies, that’s her.
Lauri would love to talk you through any issues you and your equine partner are having on
the trail, or be the first person you ride with when you take the plunge and leave the arena.
Soapboxes she may climb on include helmets, the importance of common sense, (which she
occasionally leaves at the barn), picking and choosing information from the big name
trainers, and a few other things that may pop up.
Hopefully her columns will be helpful, and even a little humorous. She can be contacted at
lauris10@earthlink.net, put motrailblazing in the subject.
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