"In about 1957, my husband, Leo, and I bought a 21-year-old mare who was in foal. We stabled Ida at the Woolf Farm, in their large old stable. Our teenage boys, Mike and David, enjoyed going there with us almost daily to visit her.

At that time there was no commercial development on that corner of 83rd and Mission Road. There was a big riding ring and plenty of pasture on the spacious property. A farm house sat above, on the hill that was later used for a Montessori school. The grave of the Woolf Farm horse Lawrin, who won the Kentucky Derby in 1938, was marked by a bronze plaque near the barn.

In due time, our mare delivered a pretty filly we named Robin. She was quite an attraction to our friends who came to see her. It was interesting to know that Ida and Robin were occupying the same stalls where Lawrin once lived."

—Nancy Cooper, 88, Prairie Village

Nancy Cooper