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her new married name is Epstein, she’s on FB. I don’t think she does the horses any longer. I saw her as a friend of a friend…[/QUOTE]
Thanks!!!
This thread makes me feel old! I started out at Meadowbrook in Chevy Chase, MD, used to get $5 pony rides at Wardaca, had a horse at PHC (second barn), moved to NY and rode those glorious 22 square miles of GBH. I also used to trailer to the Rockfeller estate to ride. Boy, those were the days!
Sue Niedenthal
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Did anyone ever ride with Sue Niedenthal of Stable Time Farm (mid 90s) and then Sterling Meadows (mid-late 90s) in Virginia Beach, VA? I rode with her for years in the summer time when I’d visit my dad and would love to know how she’s doing![/QUOTE]
I was wondering what happened to her too! I had my palomino Sadie at Stable Time for a while but left in 1994.
They’re both on Facebook and post on NCHorseNews regularly.
Camp Friendship Staff and Show Teamers from the Ole Days!
Hey Everyone!
If you were ever staff at Camp Friendship or on the Show Team with Davera and want to reconnect she is trying to catch up with everyone 
You can find her on Facebook at “Davera Ackenbom” or you can e-mail her through her website at www.foxwhisperfarm.com I know she would love to hear from all of us!
I too, am looking to re-connect with Pat Cole of Canter Merry Stables, of Manassas, Virginia. She may have changed her name.
Her ponies however, were legendary:
Morgan ponies: Merry Peach and her foal Merry Go Round were always Grand Champions in their class. I showed them often and was always very proud to do so. Also, 'Puff 'n Stuff", her Welsh pony was my favorite and he was my pal till he was sold in 79.
I am also looking for my fellow students under her, including Shelley McCauley and Liz Barth.
I rode for Pat in her earliest days as a stable owner/trainer, and trained on some of her best/earliest ponies. I did go on to 3 day eventing/steeplechase and finished my training in Germany.
If anyone knows Pat, or any of her students, I would love to chat and catch up on the “old days”.
Peace and hope to all,
Suzanne aka “Suzy”
PS - someone else, earlier in this thread, noted that Pat was “eccentric”. NO KIDDING! LOL! Understatement of the decade…anyone who trained under her, will know what we are trying to say. NO faking on that one.
I’ve been looking for Sue/Fitzpatrick/Tozzi/??? Saddlebreds, NSH’s and Mini Fox Terriers. I worked with her in Massachusetts. She moved to Palm City Florida and then, who knows. I don’t do facebook so can’t look there. She may have moved back to NY.
Also, anyone remember Turkey Hill Stables or Briggs Stables in Mass? I’m pretty sure the former is gone along with Friar’s Gate, but Briggs still has a website, although it hasn’t been updated in quite a while.
In NJ, anyone ride/board at South River Stables in the 70s? I took lessons there when I was very young and my cousins kept their horses there.
Anyone ride at Tall Oaks Farm or Park Place Equestrian Center in Howell, NJ or Rambling Brook Farm in Warren, NJ?
Anybody from Spring Valley in Montgomery AL still around?
How about anyone from either Martin’s School of Horsemanship in Somers, CT or Mountainview Stables in East Longmeadow, MA? Both stables long since closed/revamped. Learned to ride at Martin’s as an 11 year old and kept a couple of horses at Mountainview. The main person I remember from Mountainview was Robin Hunt, she had a horse called Wubbleyou.
Looking for my trainer from 1980
Lenny taught me to ride at Four Seasons Farm. He changed my life. I would love to reconnect. If anyone knows his last name or contact info, I would really appreciate it! Thanks all.
This is an interesting thread. Anyone ever hear about Anna Jaffe, once a trainer in Westbrook, CT, who claimed to be a former groupie for the Stones, was a tough kinda cookie, from England? I bought a horse from a student of hers, and boarded with her as a 14 year old - odd time in my life.
Then, from earlier days, there was a Bonnie - Bonnie married to “Beckstein” but maybe not really married, his name was Beck, and they lived and acted like gypsies - once he was found in a barn I knew of having pulled in with a trailer and simply walking out of the barn with a horse he wanted and trying to steal it. Bonnie was not as disreputable as Beck, but she suffered from his association.
Bonnie, I always thought I would find out that she had overcome and become a wonderful person and great trainer. Hopefully that happened.
Anyway, twould be interesting to hear about them?
Ah, old thread but it’s worth a shot… did anyone here ride with Helen Button in La Jolla/San Diego in the 1970s or 1980s? She was an odd woman, but taught SO many kids to ride, and made trail training a centerpiece of her program. I rode with her from 1976 to 1981, at Sorrento Valley Farms and Carmel Valley Farms, and very briefly at some barn on Shaw Ridge.
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Now that I’m living in MA, I wonder how many people there are around here who knew my first real eventing trainer, Carol Nichols, back in the 80s and early 90s. She ran the equestrian program at Mount Holyoke for quite a while. I haven’t exactly lost track of her–I know people who know where she is, and I think she’s working at a therapeutic riding center in Montana (or at least was at one time), but it would be fun to meet people who knew her before I did.[/QUOTE]
I knew Carol when she 1st came to MHC and for 3 years while she was there and again when she was in Santa Fe. She made it to my wedding reception which was great fun and occasionally kept in contact when she wanted a few horses checked out down here. My friend in Montana got us back in contact after she moved up there. Haven’t been in touch in awhile but I know I can get her email again if you want to contact her.
I rode there from 1886-1990ish!!! Stephanie O’Dell. Fast Eddie! I have a pic of me riding him in my first horse show. So many good times! I remember Highlight, Mousey, Bonnie Brooke, Camelot(wasn’t that one of the instructer’s horses?) Elliot, Puppy Love, sable, Satin, Bunny, Casper, so many!!! I think about that place all the time
There is a Potomac Horse Center and Teela Wooket page on FB which is well worth checking out. I have been able t reconnect with old friends on that social media!
Mendon NY, 1980-ish, at The farm across from Mendon Ponds Park that was later [is now?] Silver Creek… what was the name of that place? Can’t remember!
Canfield Farm?
There was an instructor there, I think her name was Vicky Becker.
Anyone know her, where she is?
She was very nice to me, and had info on one of the polo ponies I rode/groomed there who I would like to follow up on.
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Ah, old thread but it’s worth a shot… did anyone here ride with Helen Button in La Jolla/San Diego in the 1970s or 1980s? She was an odd woman, but taught SO many kids to ride, and made trail training a centerpiece of her program. I rode with her from 1976 to 1981, at Sorrento Valley Farms and Carmel Valley Farms, and very briefly at some barn on Shaw Ridge.[/QUOTE]
I remember Helen - she was at Showpark when it first opened. I took lessons from her when I moved to San Diego in the 1980s, then moved on to John Lipari and Terri Eadens also at Showpark when I got my own horse. She was a fun, old-school teacher.
Daisy Wells, taught at The Red Barn, in Brookville, NY, in the 80’s? She had a nice hunter mare named Artistic back then. Thanks.
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Ah, old thread but it’s worth a shot… did anyone here ride with Helen Button in La Jolla/San Diego in the 1970s or 1980s? She was an odd woman, but taught SO many kids to ride, and made trail training a centerpiece of her program. I rode with her from 1976 to 1981, at Sorrento Valley Farms and Carmel Valley Farms, and very briefly at some barn on Shaw Ridge.[/QUOTE]
I sold a horse to Helen Button in 1978. Palomino mare named Angel. You wouldn’t happen to remember her (hah! now we’re back to finding old horses). I’d be curious to find out about Helen just to see what happened to that horse.
[QUOTE=mem;8081277]I remember Helen - she was at Showpark when it first opened. I took lessons from her when I moved to San Diego in the 1980s, then moved on to John Lipari and Terri Eadens also at Showpark when I got my own horse. She was a fun, old-school teacher.[/QUOTE]Small world – my retired horse is with Terri up north of Paso Robles. She’s on Facebook and even posted a photo of Helen Button at some point.
