Olof Larsson was born 1976 in Ystad, southern Sweden. He started riding in 1987 at a riding school in his hometown. As a child he showed ponies in jumping, dressage and three day eventing. At the age of 14 Olof outgrew one of his smaller ponies and started to drive it instead. The two of them did very well at Combined Driving shows, they ended up Reserve National Champions in 1993 and won the National Championships in 1994 as well as 1995. In 1995 Olof stopped driving the ponies and started driving horses.

In the year of 1995 Olof graduated from High School as a High School Engineer. One week after graduation he started to work for an internationally very well known Swedish Four-in-Hand driver, Tomas Eriksson, World Champion in 1990 and 2000. At Tomas’s farm Olof received a great deal of basic knowledge in Single, Pair and Four-in-Hand driving, he also learned how to brake horses into the carriage as well as re training them.

After two years of working at Tomas’s farm, going with him to national and international shows, Olof decided that driving was his destiny. In 1996 Olof’s application to the University of Equine Studies at Flyinge, the National Stud of Sweden, was accepted. He was thrilled. The education he received there he sees as one of the best experiences in his life. He studied at Flyinge as a driving student and in 1998 Olof graduated from Flyinge as a certified stable manager and young horse educator.

In the late fall of 1998 Olof and a friend of his were invited to show horses in hand for Hilltop Farm MD in the States. They went and Olof realized he really enjoyed it over there. He came in contact with Chester, whom at that time, needed help in his stable. The two of them started their, soon to be, very successful relationship in January 1999. They have a contract till the World Championships in Aachen 2006. Olof's favourite horse in the barn is Jamaica