Palace every day, rain or shine. She doesn’t wear a white plume, but Cloudsdale, a horse masseuse, might as well be wearing a white hat in her equine clients’ eyes. Horses can’t speak to tell you what hurts, but Cloudsdale can read them. She spends hours in their stalls, rubbing her hands over their bodies and manipulating sore, tired muscles. The horses are always glad to see her, and their relaxation under her educated hands is visible. “My equine clients know me,” she said. “They react when they hear my voice.” Cloudsdale, who started riding at age 4, was born in England, where horses are a way of life for many people. Both of her parents, Roy and Billie, rode, and Cloudsdale treasures photos of herself and her sister, Lucy, astride fat Shetland ponies when they were young. The Cloudsdales, after living in Florida and in Marietta, Ga., settled on a 10.5-
acre farm in east Coweta County in 1995, when Charlotte was 17. Her trainer was the legendary Nancy Gosche, who taught legions of Coweta children how to ride. Cloudsdale began training event horses and teaching riding after her graduation from East Coweta High School. She
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specialized in triathlons for horses called eventing, where the horses must not only be able to complete complex jumping courses but also compete in tests of dressage. She later worked for Ralph Hill, a veteran advanced eventing rider based in Ocala, Fla. In 1998, Cloudsdale won the
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