Buddy Brown

Buddy Brown competed at the 1976 Olympics, just missing a medal in team jumping when the US team placed fourth. He won three medals at the Pan American Games, with golds in team jumping in 1975-79 and an individual jumping silver in 1975. Brown later became a riding trainer and coach and a jumping course designer. He and his wife, Vanessa Tuss Brown, worked as a team to develop hunting and jumping horses. Their combined expertise in the horse industry includes riding, training, teaching, management, sales, investments, and course design. Settling in Livermore, California, in the San Francisco East Bay area, they formed Derby Hill Hunters & Jumpers, and Brown also headed the Stanford Equestrian Program.