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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1980
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Richard holds Jamie and Brenda holds Jason as the family is farm,
saddled up for a horse-stroll through the long stable on their
Twins Learn
Horse Trade
At Early Age
BY CATHY PUCKETT
Staff Writer
When Richard Wheatley
leaves home each morning
at 7 a.m., to go to work, his
wife Brenda doesn’t mind a
bit that he will be spending
his day, “horsing around.”
The Wheatleys manage
Fairhaven Stables, a 62-acre
training center for show
horses located west of Cum
ming on Aaron Sosebee
Road.
Both Wheatley and his
wife have been around
horses all their lives as
riders, trainers, and instruc
tors for student riders, so it
wasn’t unusual when their
twin sons were only two
weeks old, mom and dad
gave them a tour of the bam
and started showing them
the “reins” of the trade.
A day in the horse training
business includes feeding the
horses, cleaning the stables,
general barn work, riding,
grooming and training the
horses, several of which are
already title winners.
Wheatley is a native of
Vermont, and moved to New
York at the age of seven
where he showed Quarter
Horses as a youth com
petitor under the direction of
San-Lin Acres. After a tour
with Uncle Sam in the Army
from 1962 to 1967, he returned
to San-Lin as Assistant
Trainer for two years. In
1970, he worked as a trainer
at Circle H Ranch in
Bowden, Ga., and in 1972, he
was Youth Director for New
England Quarter Horse
Association Team in New
York. While there the team
placed eighth in the nation at
competition in 1974 at the
Quarter Horse Congress
Youth Team Tournament.
In 1975, he worked as a
trainer at American Stables,
in Norcross and won the 1975
Florida State Fair Junior
Reining Championship on
“Rita Bar Dude.”
Then, he worked as a
manager-trainer at M and A
Acres in Canton, running
Quarter Horse operation. In
1976, he started his own train
ing center “Fairhaven
Stables,” in Alpharetta and
moved to Cumming in 1978.
Back in 1975, he married
Brenda, an avid horseman
also, and a native of Ohio.
She competed in State 4-H
Club competition and was
named a state winner. As a
youth she showed Quarter
Horses, Appaloosas and Ara
bians. In 1972 she moved to
Georgia and showed Ap
paloosas for 10-40 Far, Lazy
K Appaloosas, and Parker’s
Arabians.
She also has quite a few ac
complishments for a lady
horseman, like the five state
titles she won with her horse,
“M Bar S’s Elktawa” in
State Appaloosa Association
in 1973. While working as a
secretary at M and A acres
in Canton, the Wheatleys
were married.
Mrs. Wheatley has shown
horses, worked in the barn,
kept books, assisted with
training, showing and
teaching and besides that
Saddled-Up
she loves working with her
trainer husband.
Wheatley has several
notable wins including being
a championship show
qualifier on “He’s A Lucky
Dude,’’ and National
Palamino pleasure maturity
finalist on “Oklahoma’s
Gold Rush.” In showman
ship with “Candy’s Affair,”
he was named Reserve
Champion Appaloosa in
halter competition. Current
ly he is training “The Con
federate,” a pleasure winner
horse being campaigned for
the Appaloosas World Cham
pionship.
Somewhere in among the
feeding, riding, training the
horses when to trot, when to
stop, when to gallop, there’s
a lot of grooming, and yes
Wheatley and his wife both
talk to the horses and
somehow the horses seem to
understand their commands.
Wheatley has taught
notable students how to ride
and show horses in competi
tion, like Brenda Schar
nhorst of Cumming, who was
named the 1978 Fulton Coun
ty Sheriff’s Possee Queen,
and Charlotte Briggs
Brooks, who was named
Reserve Georgia 4-H Cham
pion, and Lesu Tubbs of
Marietta who was named in
1976 as the Appaloosas Horse
Club Queen and was a na
tional contender in the Na
tional Appaloosas Queen
Competition. And the list
goes on.
The Wheatleys work with
horses everyday and never
“just saddle up for a ride.”
When they saddle up the
horses they board, they are
training the horses and
many times working with
the horses means all day and
part of the night. Their
chosen profession is one of
hard work, but a profession
they have enjoyed all their
lives and one they hope their
children Jason and Jamie
will enjoy also.
Class Set
For Deaf
The Forsyth County Board
of Education in cooperation
with Atlanta Area School for
the Deaf and Georgia Learn
ing Resources System, will
offer a course in sign
language for the deaf for
anyone who is interested.
The class will meet one night
a week for two hours. It will
last seven weeks, beginning
the last week of February or
the beginning of March. The
cost is five dollars per per
son.
If you are interested in
enrolling, please contact the
Special Education Depart
ment immediately at 887-
2461, or 688-9446.
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ming is the instructor for the
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held each Tuesday night,
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Park and Recreation
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Shadbum began taking
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direction of Dr. Kimsey
Wood, a fifth degree Black
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