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or Phyllis Harlow, the past four years have been a thrilling rollercoaster ride of unexpected ups and downs, great successes and more trying times, including surgery for her successful Grand Prix mare. And Phyllis certainly
never planned to own an upper level show jumper while nurturing a beautiful 2010 foal from the same mare. In early 2006, her trainer had approached her about joining a partnership to own and compete one or more show jumpers. The trainer, David Beisel, owner of David Beisel Stables in Goshen, Ohio, would select, ride and train the horse or horses owned by this partnership. Phyllis decided that she and her husband would rather be sole owners and their new partnership with David was born. For Phyllis, a hunter rider, this venture into the upper
levels of show jumping promised to be an exciting one. But finding the right horse didn’t prove easy. Then suddenly, in June, the call came. David was in Lexington, Kentucky and had seen a horse he was convinced was the right one. Here David picks up the story. “I had stopped in to
see trainer Donald Cheska (based out of Bayside Farm in Waukesha, Wisconsin.) And he told me he had one that could really jump. I watched her canter quietly down to a 4’6” oxer—and then just explode over it. And then she jumped 5’3” just the same way! We’d been looking for a long time for the right horse. I called Phyllis and said that we had to have this one.” “David called me and said, ‘We have to have this
one! Come to Lexington right away,” Phyllis agrees. “As I watched, they kept raising the bar higher and she just kept jumping bigger and bigger and bigger. It all happened quickly from there. In two weeks, I owned a jumper!”
A LATE START The mare they had purchased, a bay Dutch Warmblood named Patoile, was something of a mystery. Bred in the Netherlands, she had been used as a broodmare,
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David and Patoile started showing together in 2006, with about half the season left to them. They competed in five Grand Prix classes and performed well in all five, with placings ranging from fourth to eighth. At the same time, the pair was also competing in a variety of lower level classes, gaining experience and cementing their partnership. The pattern continued in 2007 with David showing Patoile extensively in both the Grand Prix and
Photos, left to right: David Bieisel and Patoile at HITS in Florida. By Pat Payne
Phyllis says, with three confirmed foals to her credit and a possible fourth. Patoile did not, she adds, appear to have had much training or competitive exposure while in Europe. Clearly, however, she had a natural talent for jumping. (David adds that she probably received some training over fences before she arrived in the United States, but is unsure of the details.) She was nine years old when the Harlows purchased her through their newly formed Harlow Investment Enterprises LLC. (Today, their equestrian investment vehicle also owns Moet Walk, a ten- year-old bay Selle Français gelding.)
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