Joe Dotoli: ‘I am Doing What I Love.’
PH How did you first get involved with horses?
JD Until high school, I had no contact with horses. My family was in the restaurant business in Boston. My sister’s best friend, Maryanne, had gone to Europe for grad school and got involved in horses. She was in our kitchen one morning lamenting the fact she now had a horse in Massachusetts and no one to ride with. She was pretty and I was not too busy, so I said, “Of course, I will go with you.”
I can still vividly remember going into that barn; the smell and the feel of it. I thought, Wow, how did I miss this? This is a place I want to be. I never really stopped from that moment.
PH What do you think is most important to know about a horse?
Horses, for the most part, are pretty smart, but there is
