............................................................ Dan & Gina Ruediger, Owners Dan and Gina both started riding as children. Gina showed a few different horses and disciplines before winding up with a collection of Arabian horses as a junior rider. In fact, they still have a horse Gina has had for twenty years, "Khutty", by Khuttysark who is by the famous Khemosabi. His job now is to baby-sit the farm's foals. In the late 1980's, Gina and her mother bought their first warmblood for dressage and since then, Gina has been focused on and enjoying dressage. Dan started off riding and competing Welsh ponies when he was just a small child, then showed hunters before switching to western and showing on the Quarter Horse Circuit. Dan trained with Tim Whitney in Southern California and in the late 80's and early 90's competed throughout California, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas. In 1992, Dan qualified and competed at the AQHA World Championships and won a number of west coast titles. Dan and Gina met in 1990 at a horse farm where Dan worked during college. After college and graduate school, they started riding Gina's Hanoverian gelding together. Although they were both lifetime riders, they took dressage lessons to learn the sport more intensely. Soon, they were looking for their next dressage horse. In the late 1990's, they acquired an Oldenburg registered foal from a Dutch mare line and started their pursuit to learn more about Dutch horses. Always impressed with the Dutch horses for their modern athleticism, they began researching different pedigrees and bloodlines. They purchased a couple of Dutch horses with diverse pedigrees and in 2001, and then purchased the land their farm currently resides on and started to build the facility of Sonnenberg Farm. Today, Dan and Gina, along with their kids Mason and Daria, live on the farm in the home they built. The family rides together and Dan and Gina compete in dressage and in dressage sporthorse breeding classes with their young horses. Dan and Gina continue to visit Holland and Germany to purchase horses and enhance their knowledge and education. home | news | breeding | sales | team | farm | links 12933 SW Westfall Road    Sherwood, Oregon 97140    503.582.1986 Email: info@sonnenberg.us . ©Copyright 2005 Sonnenberg Farm All Rights Reserved. No Photo Use Permitted. Site Designed, Programmed & Maintained By Avalon Media Group