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Isn’t it funny…I don’t remember Carol showing juniors at all. It must have been when I was still in children’s and not really paying attention. She was still had terrific eq when she was showing Roger’s horses as a pro.
Carol was still with Jack Frohm when she did the juniors. That’s when she had Shadow Lake. They were practically impossible to beat…though I did manage to be champion and her reserve at Erie Hunt & Saddle Club in '68 (I think) Damn! I’m old! I think Carol was just out of the juniors when she switched over to Roger Young’s. Long unpublishable story on that one too.
Ran into Debbie at the last World Cup in Las Vegas and we had a screaming reunion in the hall. She nearly fell over when I introduced her to my daughter and muttered something to the effect of, “You can’t possibly be old enough to have a child that age!” Then I made her feel really bad by telling her I’d left the big brother at home.
You absolutely have to PM me! Big brother? Who are you??? I don’t remember Cindy Perez but I assume that’s your married name. And who is your big brother???
Yep. You can’t forget his rider, she was a sweet gal and a very determined rider who rode w/Billy Glass…rode with one tall boot and one Mary Jane on her short leg.
Ah yes, now I remember! She was amazing!
Good on ya! I remember Tah-SEE-yah on a big chestnut when Marion was showing the grey, but can’t remember his name.
I can’t remember the horses names either!
The appy was Burning Foot and Debbie used to show him in the jumpers. Um…long story about Deb & “Bernie” at Youngstown, but not really fit for public consumption. I loved Breathless and Another Legend…didn’t she have a big grey hunter, too?
I think Burning Foot was Beth’s second horse. The first one was a mare. It had been some high score champion on some appy circuit in Oklahoma or someplace far away. Beth was jumping 2’ on lesson horses and her Dad was really mad at me when she couldn’t get this expensive horse he had purchased (on his own) to go for her. I think he thought I was a lousy teacher. Truth was that Beth was still very much a beginner and the ap figured that out in 2 seconds and took full advantage! Years later her Dad and I became good friends. I worked for him on the Rochester International horse show for the 3 years he ran it. He was a great guy. I don’t rmember a second grey but I wasa out of the area by then.
Katie rode at S&BC, too with Mervyn and Bessie. She died about a year or two ago. She went to my high school, too, and we were good friends. She had epilepsy and I think it finally caught up with her.
Very sad. I didn’t know her but I do remember her.
That one escapes me though I take it he didn’t escape you.:lol: What barn?
Jim rode with Roger Young too. He had True Grit, Well Defined, Finders Keepers and a big hammerheaded liver chestnut (can’t remember it’s name) that he did well on in the AOs. Then he worked for Roger for a few years. He and George Paterson and Biv Balderston were Roger’s college educated grooms at one point! Later Jim rode professionally for Jim Hoppel for a short time. We had Robeson Saddlery Ltd for 20 some odd years till the discounters and catalogues did us in. Now he is the head saddler for Beval’s Connecticut store! He lived in CT for a year and now they ship saddles to him so he can live home.
Oh, and I just remembered the name of Roger’s groom during the Brock era…Greg Foy.
Greg Foy, whom we affectionately called Poh-lock, was one of my students! He didn’t ride half bad though he never got beyond lesson horses for lack of money. He worked off his lessons then Roger stole him from me to work with the show horses. Great kid! I heard he got into politics…working for some senator in New England…but even that news is 15 years old. And I believe he was married with kids! I had left by the time Brock was working for Roger.
I took off for California in '74 so I wasn’t around for some of the people you mentioned. I ran a H/J operation out of Bob Bradley’s Bonita Valley Farm in San Diego for a couple years. I knew Hap Hansen (he had had my job 2 years before me), Diane Grod, Jimmy Williams, Anne Kursinski (a junior at the time!), Susie Hutchinson, John Lipari, Sandy ? and ouch!
Whew! My brain hurts![/QUOTE]My brain is hurting too!
