"I look at what I do here as a big responsi-
bility and I honor that responsibility," said
Horse Manager Jamie McDiarmid. "I work
very hard because I love this farm and its
history. It has given me so much over the
years and I hope it has turned me into
a very good horse guy. I care about this
place and would do anything for it. I'm
very protective of it."
For Kobayashi and McDiarmid, there is
an extra pressure to produce. As caretak-
ers of a farm so steeped in history, they
understand the importance of seeing to it
that Audley remains a viable, successful
operation. That is a challenge, and suc-
cess has not always been the case. The
Audley of today is not the operation it
was in the 1920s when it was one of the
major breeders in the country and it cer-
tainly isn't the Audley of the early sev-
enties, when then-owner James Edwards
turned it into the base for a huge racing
operation that focused on cheap horses
and led the nation in races won from 1971
