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the gold at the Los Angeles Games, while she and Finvarra finished fourth individually. She was named the USCTA Rider of the Year in 1980 and was named USCTA Leading Lady Rider five times (1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, and 1985). Today, she runs a training facility in Massachusetts with

partner Erik Fleming, where they hosted the Over the Walls Horse Trials for five years. She is also active as a clinician and a cross-country course designer.

EVERYTHING I DO WITH MY HORSES, every single day, is based on what I learned from Jack. Once I stopped thinking I knew everything, my time working with him was simply magic. “His” horses—no matter who actually owned them—

were the most important thing in the world to him. My first year in Hamilton, I wasn’t allowed to have a groom. So I’d be mucking furiously as he walked around the barn each morning checking every horse. Their eyes, their legs, how they moved—he look at it all. He certainly didn’t ask your permission to look at your horse! He’d touch a horse and they’d put their ears forward. It was like the queen of England was in the barn! Jack was quite a character. I remember riding Poltroon

on Crane’s Beach (in Ipswich, Massachusetts) in January. It was so cold! I’m a Virginia girl; I don’t like the cold. He wanted to swap horses and ride Poltroon in order to play a trick on the rest of the team. So he made me swap jackets in that bitter cold so that he could ride back pretending to be me, barely squeezing into my jacket

JACK LE GOFF arrived in the United States in 1970 from his native France to coach the American event team and immediately started building a winning team. Famed for his quick wit, his innate talent in the saddle and total dedication to the sport, his track record of winning Olympic and World Equestrians Game teams speaks for itself. Before coming to America, he competed in the Rome

Olympics in 1960 on the French bronze medal team as well as in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He also coached the 1968 French Olympic Team, including the individual gold medalist Jean-Jacques Guyon on Pitou. Jack’s coaching of the U.S. Three-Day Event Team

spanned fourteen years during which the U.S. won medals in eight CCIOs. The teams he coached won medals in the following Olympics: Munich 1972 (team silver), Montreal 1976 (team gold, individual gold and silver), Fontainebleau 1980 Alternate Olympics (individual silver and bronze medals) and Los Angeles 1984 (team gold and individual silver medals.) His teams’ successes at the World Championships include Burghley 1974 (team gold and individual gold and silver), Lexington 1978 (team bronze and individual gold) and Luhmuhlen 1982 (team and individual bronze medals.) Finally, at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, the team took the gold and individual gold and silver. In 1996, Jack judged the Olympic Three-Day Event in Atlanta. He conducted clinics throughout his career and even took the time to help with U.S. Pony Club rallies. Jack Le Goff passed away in 2009 at the age of 78.

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while his was many sizes too big for me! Poltroon was always heavy in her mouth. But after

that day on the beach, she just wasn’t any more. Without doing anything we could see, and certainly without fighting with her, Jack resolved the issue and made Poltroon a better horse. Jack’s empathy with the horses he rode complemented their natural grace and elegance. He was constantly saying things to me that come back

every single day. “Gymnastic the flat work,” he’d tell me in his French accent. And I do, every single day.

MICHAEL PAGE

“His seat was so effortless that he truly became part of the horse.”

Michael Page’s career includes three Olympic Games and three Pan American games. At the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, he placed fourth individually and earned team silver; at the Mexico Olympics in 1968 he earned individual bronze and team silver. He won two individual gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1959 and 1963. In addition, in 1963 and 1967 he was a member of the U.S. teams that brought home gold. He also won the individual bronze in 1967. The Wofford Cup was retired in 1963 after Michael received

it three times. He coached the Canadian three-day team at the 1976 Olympics and served as Chef d’Equipe at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, the 1990 World Championships, and 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Today he is active as a clinician. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90
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