Shelley Browning Dressage

Shelley Browning grew up in Calabasas with close ties to the world of entertainment. Her father, Roger Davis, was a prominent William Morris partner and officer, and her childhood home had frequent visits from Elvis Presley, Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen. Shelley was a successful, competitive equestrian all of her life, with particular interest in dressage riding. She began showing hunters/jumpers, and then as a teenager pursued 3 day eventing and ultimately started dressage after college. She was a very successful junior rider and presently rides and competes as an amateur.   

Shelley Browning Dressage: At 17 she was signed by Wilhelmina Models and had an exciting career doing print and ad campaigns for a variety of clients including Maybelle, Volvo and Dos Equis. She attended UCLA and went on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude. Immediately after graduation she started law school at the prestigious USC Gould School of Law. She began her career as an entertainment lawyer at Rosenfeld, Meyer and Susman a hot boutique entertainment firm in Beverly Hills. She practiced for a short time before leaving to run a production company at Universal studios for a prominent music artist.  

After the conclusion of the Universal deal she founded Magnolia Entertainment her 20-year old full-service management company based in Beverly Hills, California. Shelley Browning and her team have represented A-list actors, writers, directors, production companies and financiers. She is well known for her global scope and keen eye for talent and content, and represents such internationally recognized artists as Rachel McAdams, Bill Skarsgard, Joel Kinnaman, Noomi Rapace, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Espinosa, and Dev Patel. Magnolia has worked with numerous studios, networks, and production companies on its clients’ behalf, and recently moved into the production side themselves. Shelley Browning is an Executive Producer alongside Basil Iwanik’s Thunder Road of an exciting thriller, THREE SECONDS with Clive Owen, Rosamund Pike and Joel Kinnaman. It is based on a Trilogy of books by Andre Roslund and the film is schedule to be released this summer. She also just sold a TV series to premium cable programmer FX with Michael London.

Shelley Browning Dressage

Shelley Browning has been riding her entire life, and has rode and competed in hunter/jumpers, three-day eventing, and dressage events and competitions for over 50 years, and has nothing but respect and admiration for the honor and professionalism of the sport.

She has owned all her horses from her first mount, purchased by her father from a backyard in Sylmar, California, to her current horse purchased in Holland two years ago, and, like most riders she knows and has cherished every one of them. To say that her horses, including of course, Vorst D, are loved and respected as family members, and well-treated would be an understatement. 

Shelley Browning Dressage feeds her horses special food, fits them with special shoes, turn out privileges, roomy box stalls, covered areas, regular training, high-end care from dedicated experts, vets, and teachers.  Over her years of riding, her respect for the judges and administrators of the sport has also been a constant.

Shelley has owned the following horses during her dressage career:

• High society 3rd level dressage horse from 2000-2007
• Wradger Grand Prix dressage horse used for 4th level and Prix St George from 2007-2012
• Comtessa Bycht from 2012-2015; Grand Prix horse showed intermediate 1 and 11
• Bright Lights from 2015-2017; Prix St. George horse
• Vorst D from 2017-current

Shelley Browning describes dressage as the art of riding and training a horse in a manner that develops obedience, rhythm, relaxation, connection, impulsion, straightness, and collection. Dressage is an Olympic sport and is also included as a discipline in the Olympics for 3-day eventing, (which includes dressage, cross-country, and stadium jumping over 3 days of competition).