SPOTLIGHT
“WHEN WE KNOW BETTER, WE DO BETTER” Every day, Victoria Charmoli is striving to learn something new about breeding and apply it to her business, VC Breeding & Sales WORDS: APRIL BILODEAU PHOTOS: CIRCLE B RANCH
VICTORIA CHARMOLI started out like most
horse-crazy kids. She was constantly begging her parents for riding lessons and to ride the ponies at local fairs. The riding lessons turned into leasing a horse, and once she got older, she began showing. In high school, she attended a boarding school that gave her the opportunity to assist with breeding and raising young horses. While she didn’t ride much in college, after graduation she started buying, retraining, and selling off-track Thoroughbreds to suitable homes. An unexpected diagnosis of Lyme disease hit Charmoli hard, which prevented her from riding, and forced her to consider other career options in the horse world.
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THE PLAID HORSE
October/November 2023
