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We started Wood Run Farm in 1998. We were looking for a place that was convenient to south Denver, quiet, with lots of turnout and great facilities for both summer and winter. Equally important, we wanted to find a place where we could enjoy ourselves, knowing that the people were nice and the horses were happy. The place had to be clean and the care had to be the best.

After almost a decade, we are pleased at what we have accomplished. The facilities are great, the people (including the boarders) are friendly and the care is outstanding. And, everything feels like home.

Wood Run Farm is owned and operated by Wood Run Properties, LLC, which is owned by the Thompson-Tredennick Family LLC. The people behind all of these corporate formalities are Page, John, Sarah and Scott Tredennick. Here is more about each of us.

Page is an MBA mom who has been riding and showing since her early teens back in Cincinnati. She has shown successfully in both hunters and jumpers from California to Madison Square Garden, most recently winning a class at the Piers at the National Horse Show in New York City.

In her other life she is a Cordon Bleau chef who spent 15 years running a successful restaurant and catering business in Cincinnati. Looking for a change, she came back to Colorado (where she had attended Colorado College) and taught skiing for a year in Aspen. She then took her MBA at Denver University in marketing.

Page made one mistake, a blind date with some lawyer a friend recommended. That led to a quick engagement, a June wedding, two kids and an MBA mom. When things settled down, she founded Wood Run and a professional cooking school called Cook Street. Like Wood Run, it is the best in the business.

When she is not riding or skiing or doing laundry, Page can be found working a Sudoku puzzle. Go figure.

John didn't know anything about horses until he met Page almost 20 years ago on a blind date. Had he even a clue about how fanatical these horse people are, he might have run for the hills. Instead, under the pretense of a horse who acted lame any time we tried to sell him, he took a riding lesson or two. "What the heck," he thought. It can't be any worse than golf.

Wrong he was. After beating his way (against ponies no less) through the novice divisions, John started competing for real. Like most trial lawyers who don't like to lose, he gunned the throttle and started winning in the jumpers. And sometimes crashing.

In his other life, John practiced law as a litigation partner at Holland & Hart for more than 20 years. In 2000, just as the economy was crashing, he founded an Internet company called CaseShare. Probably because he knew nothing of the business world, it took off and has become a leader in providing large document repositories and systems to manage complex cases and financial transactions. You never know.

Sarah is in high school (Connecticut this year) and would stop speaking to us if we told you anything important about her. So we'll make it up.

Sarah has been riding since she was three and has worked her way through lead line to small, medium and large ponies. Same for children's hunters and jumpers.

These days Sarah competes nationally in the Juniors for both hunters and jumpers. She qualified for the Maclay finals in 2004 and competed in New York at the Metropolitan Horse Show. You will also find her at Devon in the spring, at the Washington International and Harrisburg in the fall and Wellington this winter.

In the summer of 2005, Sarah represented the United States in the German Friendship games in Hereford, Germany. The whole family trooped over and had a great time.

Scott is in middle school at Colorado Academy. For many years, he had limited interest in riding, preferring, instead, to ride his snowboard in the winter and play paintball in the summer. He still does both pretty well.

Recently, he decided to try riding and found he has a pretty good eye as well. Last year he competed at a number of shows in Colorado including Douglas County, High Prairie and Estes. He and his dad ventured to Tucson to compete as well. They will probably be back there this year too.

Scott has been riding in the short stirrup and children's hunters. With the recent acquisition of Kiwi and maybe Signature, he plans to move into the children's jumper division and start competing with his Dad. The plan is to beat his father before the year is out. Dad, however, with new jumper Iza, has different ideas. He doesn't like losing.