ONthecover Story by Piper Klemm Photos by Adam Hill
Fresh snow fell the night before we arrived at John Madden Sales in Cazenovia, New York. It’s mid-December, and we’ve been looking forward to this visit for weeks. Even though it’s currently sitting under a foot or so of snow, we wanted to explore the farm’s expansive grand prix course – we’ve never seen anything like it. Built to mimic all the elements of Spruce Meadows, and most heavily used in the two weeks before Beezie Madden leaves to compete at Spruce in the spring, this course has everything. More impressive than the man-made hills and water features, though, was the trail of footsteps we found in the snow, leading from the barely-visible house in the trees on one side of the course to the barn on the other side; Beezie walked to work today through her personal grand prix course.
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