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severely damaged knee and a soured taste for riding. What Whaley now favored, she says, was taking care of horses, managing their care. The Canadian team job was perfect.
Whaley left England in 1974.
By chance, she visited an aunt in Potomac, Md. before heading north to Canada, and, by another chance, hooked up with an old friend from England - Abigail Gille - while checking out the Potomac Horse Center. Gille was conducting the Horse Master’s Course at PHC, teaching the classical British system of horsemanship and care. Whaley was Gille’s assistant until she left for Canada the next year.
“After the Olympics I didn’t really know what to do,” Whaley said, adding that Canadian team rider Juliet Graham’s (now in Upperville) father had a tack shop in Calgary. “It sounded great, so I went to work for Pip Graham out there. He was the main distributor (at the time) for Stubben saddles” from Germany. “I learned a lot from him.”
Whaley returned after a year to the mid-Atlantic region to manage Wonderland, a Trakehner breeding farm in West Chester, Pa. She stayed five years, working with stallions, mares and foals. While there, she also managed the Chesterland Three-Day Event stables at Bruce Davidson’s nearby farm.
Wonderland was located near the New Bolton Center, one of the nation’s best-known horse hospitals. When she left Wonderland, Whaley set up a lay-up and rehab operation just down the road from New Bolton.
Ten years into the job, again injury forced her next move: a fractious colt referred by New Bolton for rehab mashed her against the stall wall one day, giving her impetus to alter course once more.
She went to work at nearby Rick’s Heritage Saddlery, marrying her love of horses with her knowledge of business and knack for equine operations.
Whaley stayed with Rick’s from 1991 through this spring — “I loved my job, and loved the people there” she said with a sniffle — but a simple phone call from old friend Abigail Gille was all it took to rock her world again.
“Abigail knew I wanted my own business,” Whaley said. “And Horse and Hound was her ‘local’ tack shop. One day (shop owner Ann Pankow) told her she was thinking of selling, and within minutes Abigail was on the phone to me. It was a perfect fit.”
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