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Lumpy, in the mean time, just Kohn and Jimmy Williams winning she settled into Windfield to build a
followed along and did what any horse the class at 6’6”. A remarkable feat, new business, with a home base this
kid would do; she rode anything that even to this day. time.
was around. Her first ride was a horse Married and then divorced, “They helped me a lot over the years
from Virginia that came to California Lumpy started working for herself and I bought little pieces of the farm
when she was 4-5 years old. “Henry” as a traveling trainer. Building that as time went along, eventually ending
was way too big for her but that was business to over 50 horses in training, up with all of it. They made it possible
what she had and that was what she and traveling place to place, she felt for me to own it myself, they were
rode for awhile. Then Stonehedge, like she was on the go all of the time extremely benevolent!” says Lumpy
(although again too big), her first but not productive and got ‘burned in a quiet moment. “That was about
suitable mount, ten years ago.”
arrived as a gift “The farm is really
when her aunt died. varied in what it has
At about the age to offer. There is a
of nine she got riding school, a lease
a medium pony program, beginning
named Acorn. showing and the big
Back in the days Grand Prix horses
when there were also. I have 70 stalls
no ‘pony classes’, here now but it
Acorn simply did can take up to 150
the normal divisions with the zoning,
and no one told something I do not
him he couldn’t plan to do,” she says
win. Champion at with a rolling laugh.
the Santa Barbara “I have learned what
Channel City horse too much is and I stay
show in the Junior away from that.”
Hunters, Acorn led “It is 63 acres and
the way to the many has a large indoor
victories Lumpy arena which is rare
has abundantly acquired, scattered out’, a common occurrence in the in this area. It originally only had an
throughout her life in the show ring. horse industry. Purchasing a place in old Spanish barn but I have put in a
Her mother went to work for a Virginia, plans were in the process to new one now. The grass fields, the
time with Champ and Linda Hough move back east with her family and arenas, huge turnouts, beautiful trees
in Morgan Hill, then to Los Angeles take a new look at the direction she and grass all over the place make it a
to anchor Max Bonham’s LA business was going. wonderland in its own. This area is
where the main client was a character Timing, as they say, is everything amazing anyway, and this place is like
named Monty Fisher. Located at the and it was no different for her. The a jewel in the middle of it. I live in a
newly opened LA Equestrian Center Windfield Station facility was owned converted hay barn with 26 owls, deer
(then know as Griffith Park) another by four “very nice women” who and ducks that come to visit every
milestone in Lumpy’s life came along, a needed a new trainer. Finding Lumpy, evening, it doesn’t get much better
large pony named Festival Prince who they refused to take ‘no’ for an answer, than that.”
she showed all over the west coast. made her an offer she could not “I have a passion for rebuilding and
In a Knock Down and Out Open refuse and again her plans took a new designing things that have to do with
Jumper class she out jumped Jimmy direction. Selling the Virginia place, stables. I probably have renovated
Page 88: Daughter Holly and Roma Lenka.
Page 89: Lumpy and her horse Cant Dance.
Opposite Page Top to Bottom: Daughter Holly Kilham Charlebois with her horse; Dan Theodore; Winfield Station Main
Gate; Lumpys mother, Betty Kilham.
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