together a puzzle and you have to keep
changing the pieces until you get the right
picture. World Approval is a perfect exam-
ple of that. I can still remember him break-
ing his maiden and I called Mrs. Weber im-
mediately and said we were going to have a
lot of fun with this horse. He's at Live Oak
right now and the day after he arrived he
was pulling the hotwalker around. We're
excited for next year and hopefully getting
to Dubai."
As a stakeholder who has seen the game
move through its many phases and cycles,
while competing toe-to-toe at its apex
with the Godolphins, Stonestreets and
Coolmores of the world, Weber offers a
unique perspective. Instead of being anes-
thetized by modernity, she is balanced in
her approach; both wise to the folly and
wide-eyed to new facets.
"The target is forever moving and the
game has obviously changed a lot," Weber
explained. "It's no longer the breeders all
racing their stock and the years of great
trainers like Paul Mellon and Elliott Burch,
who trained mostly privately for one own-
er, are gone. When the grass died out, you
either laid your horses off in Aiken (South
Carolina) or somewhere like that or if you
happened to have a horse who was ready
