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The clipping this text was read from
The clipping this text was read from

Piedmont

In every kind of competition, there is always that ‘first time’. Susan recalls hers. “The Piedmont race course is a sentimental favorite of mine. It was my first race course. Somehow I placed in that first race. Despite losing a stirrup, having to jump without it, going way wide and wasting ground, and accelerating to fast, too soon.

“I was the ‘new kid in town’ then. What did I know? I had a ball. I was hooked. Dr. Joe Rogers came back to the van after that first race to see how the horse and new rider were doing. I was euphoric. He said, ‘That adrenalin you’re running on will last about a week. Then it will be time to race again. And it was.”

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