Horse Breeding
After her career in racket sports ended, Ms. Varner would gradually immerse herself in a different kind of sports venture. Her marriage to horse trainer Gerald Bloss in the late 1960s produced a son, Leigh, in 1971. It also piqued Mrs. Bloss's interest in the breeding and training of thoroughbred racehorses. After her husband's death she pursued this interest seriously with her friend Margaret Osborne duPont. They formed the duPont-Bloss Stables, near El Paso, and often gave their horses names taken from the argot of tennis and other racket sports. In 1996 they were ranked as Top Twenty Racehorse Owners by Thoroughbred Times.
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