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age of 16,” Whaley recalled. “It made me grow up quick.”
Her parents, though, had other ideas about schooling. Whaley chuckles. They sent her to finishing school, hoping she’d learn ladylike skills of dressmaking and flower arranging.
Unknown to school administration, Whaley had quickly discovered the local riding stable, pedaling her bike in the dark each evening after supper to the bam.
She lasted just two terms at school. “They knew I didn’t really want to be there.”
Back to horses, Whaley worked at a livery stable east of London before setting up her own yard. At age 25, she became manager of the Civil Service Riding Club in DeVere Mews near Royal Albert Hall. There she became friends with rider Dessie Dillingham, part of the British dressage team prepping for the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Through that connection she hooked up as a groom for the Canadian three-day event team. A riding accident (a rearing horse that fell with her on a Vil rocnlfo/1 in a
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