STORK REPORT


ON THE MEND


…former Marylander Royce Evans (now in WA), who ruptured patellar tendons in both knees in an untimely dismount from her trick horse Karl; …Marsha Herbert, who had knee replacement surgery in November; …Baltimorean Debi Flowers Daniels, who is recovering from knee surgery; ...equine insurance agent and real estate agent Kitsi Christmas, who had a lumbar fusion in October; … hunter trainer Scotty Sherman (New Market), who had lumbar fusion in October; …Anna Marie Ford Baker, who had back surgery in November; …Paul Schopf of Dressage at Sundown, who recently had surgery to repair a compound fracture of his right elbow.


Imogen Josephine Weaver 2017 Filly born September 18, 2017 By yachtsman Tom Weaver and out of horsewoman Regina Welsh


Maryland Will Miss...


…Jesse Evan Self, formerly of Annapolis, who died on October 19. He was 56. Self and his wife Mary ran Sweet Water Equestrian in Har- wood and also in Ocala, Florida. Born in Texas, Self spent most of his adult life in Maryland and Florida, where he built two horse farms as well as T e Beach Ocala, a restaurant and bar opened by the Self family in 2012.


…Jack W. Stedding, Sr., one of Maryland and the United States’ top hunter profession- als from the 1960s until the mid-2000s, who passed away on October 23, 2017, at age 75. He is survived by longtime companion, Linda Andrisani, also son Jack W. Stedding, Jr., and Jack’s wife Josee. Born on March 31, 1942, Jack learned to ride at his uncle’s hack stable near Baltimore, “by getting dumped and bucked off .” He began showing at age 7 and by his mid-teens, decid- ed that horses were what he wanted to do for a living. His fi rst professional stable was based at Ruth Yeager’s Mayfair Farm in Timonium. Stedding campaigned Yeager’s young T or- oughbred horses throughout the MidAtlantic and in Florida, establishing a reputation for himself as one of the country’s most up and coming trainers on the hunter circuit. With then wife Bobbie


(Gardner), and Andrisani, both hunter/jumper trainers, Jabolin Farm was established in the late 1960s. In 1980, Stedding and Andrisani founded Monkton Manor


COMINGS & GOINGS Welcome to new 4-H Horse Coordinator Rebecca Gunderson.


Farm, where for over 25 years, they continued to cultivate young riders and horses into some of the nation’s most suc- cessful partnerships. Top professionals such as


Tommy Serio, Sandy Ferrell, Albert Urbina, R. Scot Ev- ans, Nancy Ashway, Streett Moore,


Elizabeth Solter,


Jennifer Marshall and Mary Lisa Nicholson are all prod- ucts of Stedding’s training and guidance, and continue to pass his wisdom and work ethic onto their students. Amateur and junior rid- ers Lindsay Evans, Patti Schindler, Patricia Gowl, Linda Lee Piersol, Kim Wirtanen, Brooks Moore, Gay and Perry Peterson, Di- ane and Amanda Burt, and Mark Ferrell all became top national contend- ers during their time as part of the Monkton Manor team.


Rick Jones, MFH


Maryland will miss former Goshen Master Rick Jones, who passed away while we were readying this issue for press. Please see T e Equiery’s Facebook page this month for an obituary, and the January print edition of T e Equiery.


Hollywood, TriStar and Jack the Bear brought many a tricolor home to the May- fair, Jabolin, and Monkton Manor tack rooms. A memorial luncheon


for Jack Stedding was held on Sunday, Novem- ber 26 at Bruce and Patti Schindler’s Bay Landing Farm in Butler.


...Frankie Pardoe, Artist Everyone knows that


Frankie Pardoe, who passed away on November 4 at the age of 79, was a talented painter of wildlife, hounds, horses, fox and house pets. Who in our world does not have at least one “Frankie” adorning their walls? Oil, acrylic, graph- ite. Original, lithograph or


Some of the most successful hunter horses and ponies ever to enter the show ring got their foundation with Jack, who was well-known for be- ing able to see talent in the greenest prospect and bring out the most and best in ev- ery horse. Names like Ruxton, Chardonnay, Custom Made, Shenandoah Opal,


Ivory Jack W. Stedding, Sr. 74 | THE EQUIERY | DECEMBER 2017 Coast, Cruisin’ the Coast,


giclee. In my household, we have at least four originals and well over a dozen prints. Our own private Frankie gallery. Yes, everyone knows that Frankie was a tal- ented artist – but her greatest artistic talent could not be seen. It wasn’t renderings of ani- mals or the portraits of friends or family. And it wasn’t captured on canvas or paper. Frankie’s greatest artistic talent was the art of listening. Yes, Frankie could draw. But Frankie also had the gift of being able to draw us out - without us realizing that she had done so! Drop by for tea!


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