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“. . . racing was my first love and has remained very dear to my heart.”
by John Moorehouse
They say that life is what happens when you’re making other plans. Robin Glenn went through high school and started college thinking she would train race horses for a living. Then, she began working for the Out Front Sale Company, writing pedigrees and sale catalogs, to make some extra money.
Glenn wrote her first sale catalog on a tablet of yellow legal paper in her dorm room at William Woods College in Missouri. Since then, she’s prob- ably written more pedigrees and sale catalogs than she can count. The founder of Robin Glenn Pedigrees (www.robinglenn.com), Glenn has built an invaluable resource for those in the Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa horse industries.
Founded in 1981, Glenn’s database now has more than 310,000 performance horses, and more than 1.7 million performance lines. Combined, the horses in her database have earned more than $1 billion.
“I love a good horse regardless of the disci- pline, and I have been involved in many aspects
of the Quarter Horse industry,” Glenn said. “However, racing was my first love and has remained very dear to my heart. But due to the nature of my business, I’m unable to be away from the office much, so nowadays I tend to live vicari- ously through my pedigrees!”
Glenn has been plenty busy as of late. This month, Version 1 of the RGP Catalog Builder will launch—the fruits of a partnership between RGP and the AQHA, which purchased Robin Glenn Pedigrees in 2014.
Despite the demands of that project, Glenn took some time to tell us more about herself in the latest installment of our Lighter Side feature.
Q: Where were you born?
A: Champaign, Illinois
Q: What are your hobbies outside of horse racing?
A: Landscaping and flower gardening, and hanging with my kids and grandkids.
Q: What is your favorite movie, and why?
A: “K-Pax.” It was so richly layered.
Q: Give an interesting fact about your family.
A: My father was a veterinarian who held one mechanical and three nutritional patents,
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and who invented the electric cattle dehorner. However, he did not want me to go into the horse business at all!
Q: Do you have a nickname and, if so, what is it and how did it come about?
A: Robinhood, when I was young (guess how it came about...).
Q: What is the strangest personality quirk you have ever seen in a horse?
A: Our son had a show horse once who hated being turned out. He always wanted to go back to his stall when we turned him out to relax—the equine version of a couch potato.
Q: If you were not in the horse racing business, what job would you like to have? A: Trial attorney.
Q: What is your favorite thing about living where you live?
A: My eccentric, 65-year-old home and its big, demanding yard.
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