Leeanne Meadows Ladin

Leeanne Meadows Ladin has been writing and riding all her life. She learned how to ride, bareback and barefoot, on pinto ponies at her grandparents' farm in southwest Virginia. At age ten, she spent all her birthday money on "The Fireside Book of Horse Racing - A Thoroughbred Treasury." In 1973, she sat screaming in front of the TV as Secretariat won the Belmont by 31 lengths. Leeanne later had her own horse farm, where she enjoyed trail riding with her Tennessee Walking Horses. She started her own business, Free Rein Writing, on the horse farm in 2000. She and Kate have been on a national book tour with "Secretariat's Meadow" since fall 2010.They have written a new book "Riva Ridge - Penny's First Champion" which was just published this September. Leeanne also gives narrated tours of Secretatiat's birthplace at The Meadow and is serving as event director for the upcoming SECRETARIAT BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION on March 29-30. Read more at www.secretariatsmeadow.com.