About Sam Morton
After graduating college, Sam worked as a horsebreaker for the NX Bar Ranch north of Sheridan and the WS Ranch in Wyarno, Wyoming. After spending winters riding in Arizona, Florida, and Texas, Sam was hired during the summer as a polo horse trainer in Wellington, Florida by Memo Gracida, the winningest polo player in the history of the game. Sam also served as a polo manager under Herbie Pennell at Palm Beach Polo in the winter. Polo manager jobs in New York and Wyoming followed. |
Sam
Morton, a horse trainer for over thirty years, was raised on a cattle
farm in Southern Pines, North Carolina. The youngest of six children
of Mary Virginia and Thomas Edward Morton, Sam graduated from Pinecrest
High School in 1975 and Guilford College in 1981 with a degree in
history. During the summers Sam served as a wilderness guide in
the Bighorn Mountains, and he also took a year off from school to
work on the chemical docks during the roaring seventies in Houston.