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things like normal people and we ended up with eleven horses. I didn't know enough to buy good ones so we just sort of collected whatever we ran into. We actually saved a lot of them from the race track in Mexico and went to the 'out barn' at Aqua Caliente racetrack to buy several. We didn't have a plan, we had no idea what we were doing but we knew we liked horses and we wanted a few!" He ends with a laugh and Pat taps the table giggling also.
to Lake Hodges about the same time we moved to Rancho Santa Fe. We moved all those horses to Hap Hansen and Sandy Aston at Rancho Riding Club with the uneducated idea of doing the 'A' cir- cuit. I'm not sure they were glad to see us coming in the beginning, but Hap and I think a lot alike. He was instrumental in helping us get educated and Sandy helped devise a plan." "I have always had a motto in just about every-
"Then in 1978," he continues, "Nancy moved
at a Flintridge Show and I realized what had been wrong.....I told Hap and Sandy, FIND ME GOOD ONES! Classic was 'that horse' with Richard Keller so the first deal was made. A top Junior Hunter then, Jenny was really successful on him, eventu- ally going east to Harrisburg, Washington and New York. On that trip she won The Tiny Perpetual
thing I do - Why NOT win?? I got very excited about the prospect of that with the horses and we formed a plan to do whatever we needed to do to make that happen. Of course the first thing was to figure out what to do with all those horses!" He stops a bit to laugh as he and Pat share an inside joke sort of look at each other. "I think we just about gave them all away, except the pony!" "All of a sudden the light sort of went on for me
This Page (Top to Bottom): Jenny and Dalfsen winning the Oaks Grand Prix, 1986; Jenny riding Classic in Junior Hunters at Washington, 1983. Opposite Page(Top to Bottom): Jenny, Joie Gatlin and Mandy at Santa Barbara; Sandy on Heart of Gold; Sandy on Call Me Back.
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