Opposite Page Left To Right:
Ramsay Kubal and “Bradley”;
“Pumpkin”, a trusty Onondarka
School Horse at my first Turkey
Show, 6th place!; a candid from
Pebble Beach
This Page Left to Right: My
children’s hunter “Tried and True”
with my brother Noel getting ready
for lead line at Santa
Barbara...me at
his head; MCC Stables; Katharine
James at the 2007 Maclay Finals
in 2007Syracuse;
Nicole.
We spent 5 years working What would you
together and developed a large
say you specialize
group of clients for Uphill Farm and the
in, or are known
Menlo Circus Club. When Carleton decided to move his
for?
operation to Southern California, I was presented with the
Setting short term goals
opportunity of taking over the position of Hunter/Jumper
to help my students
trainer at Menlo. Thus, Round Meadow Farm, LLC was re-
reach their long term
born!
goals. Producing riders
The Club recently completed the reconstruction of its state
that “ride”, and run-
of the art new stable, and we are all still pinching ourselves
ning a well organized
about it. If you haven’t been to Menlo for a few years, please
barn. I am always organiz-
do come by for a visit, we love to show it off! It has been the
ing; ask any one of my students.
result of many years of hard work by people like Betsy Glik-
barg (who many of you know as the
What would people be surprised
Chairwoman of the Menlo Charity
to learn about you?
Horse Show), Nancy Robinson (the
I’m actually a really mellow person. I like to
accomplished Adult Hunter rider and
get “dressed up”; I have a bit of a problem
owner of RR Farms) and Nora Stent
with buying shoes.
(whose daughter was a competitive ju-
nior rider with Uphill Farm). Their vi-
sion has come to life in a barn that any
What is your guilty pleasure?
horse would be proud to call home.
Sleep, the Travel Channel ( I have a thing
for Anthony Bourdain) and. playing with
Where did the name Round
my dogs.
Meadow Farm come from?
If you hadn’t been profession-
It was our Family Farm’s name. My
ally involved with horses, what
family’s show and race horses were
owned by Round Meadow Farm. But
other career would you have
really, I grew up on Round Meadow
chosen?
Road. I always knew that I wanted
When I was little I thought I wanted to be
to use that name, to me there was
a Psychologist, who knew that would apply
no other choice. It makes my parents
so well to what I do now. I studied Graphic
proud. My Mother likes to come to
Design for a bit, but horses got in the way.
the shows and sit under “her Daugh-
Now, I would like to be someone like An-
ter’s” tent and tell my clients stories about when I was a junior.
thony Bourdain or Samantha Brown who get paid to travel,
The Moms in the barn can’t get enough; they think it’s pretty
eat and drink really good wine.
funny.
What do you most look forward to at the
You have a client base made up of largely
beginning of each day?
juniors and amateurs, is this by design?
Smiles from my students, especially when they
In a sense yes, but had you asked me 20 years ago what my
have brought me Starbucks.
goals were, it would have been to be a competitive Grand Prix
Rider. I never expected to be as rewarded by teaching as I am,
What do you find most rewarding
what we think of as “normal” is a gift to so many people. See-
about what you do for a living?
ing the amazement in their eyes, watching them take the next
The accomplishments. The realization of
step, helping them achieve a goal, that is where I have found
dreams that were dreamt about years before.
fulfillment. We are lucky to be able to do what we play at for a
The first Blue ribbon and the last closing circle.
living, if I can share that with people, I am satisfied.
Life is a book, we are just writing the chapters.
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