Keeping Faith
“I loved Arabians from the day I was born,” says Lisa Gaudio. “I grew up in Southern California, and when I was about 13, my stepfather bought me a signed print of the painting, ‘The Pharaoh’s Horses.’ That’s when the thought entered my mind that one day I would have my own Arabian.
“We used to get Arabian Horse World at the local feed store. And one day there was an ad for a mare for sale that Suzanne and Perry Perkins bred. I went to see them, and my whole life changed. I rode the mare and they said, ‘We don’t think this is the right horse for you.We’re going to find you the right one.’ We became friends from then on because, hey, somebody tells you not to buy their horse? They were looking out for me.”
About six months later Lisa bought the mare Choices (Barbary x Baskhemos Rochele), from the Perkinses – “My first horse and my foundation mare,” she says. “I bred her to the Saddlebred Harlequin Magic Maker and the result was Sherry Baby, the dam of Kyrie Elleison (by Allionce).”
Kyrie is her own story, but it’s not the one we are telling here. However, it illustrates the lengths that Lisa will go to for love. In a nutshell, after a divorce
