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Glenn and Anne Winograd [Photo: Jeffrey Camp]

Glenn Winograd — Gentleman farmer
Business: Partner at Criterion executive search firm
Where: Odessa
What: 30-acre horse farm and 4,400-sq.-ft. home
Architect: William E. Poole, Wilmington, N.C.
Style: Traditional Southern plantation
Unique feature: Free-form, black-bottom, stone-edge pool with a six-foot stream and waterfall

His friends call it South Fork. The architect’s plans call it River Road. But to Glenn Winograd, it’s a dream-come-true home. Winograd grew up in Brooklyn, where apartment living didn’t allow him to indulge in his love of animals. Even as a kid, he remembers wanting a gentleman’s farm. Today he lives in a Southern plantation-style home. He and his wife, Anne, own a Morgan horse farm — called West Coast Morgans — on the property, with a 30-stall barn, a full-time trainer and riding instructors. Anne runs the farm.

Accomplished riders, the Winograds bought the land and started the horse farm seven years ago. Winograd worked on the property every day after work, doing everything from painting the fences to planting 95% of the trees. Four years later, the Winograds built the house and moved in.

Financing the farm was a challenge. Traditional banks did not share their vision, but Farm Credit of Central Florida “understood what we wanted to do,” he says. Winograd also cashed in on some dot-com holdings at the right time.

Nowadays, a typical day for Winograd involves work in Tampa, then off to the stables to ride or work one of his five horses. At the end of the day, the couple enjoy sitting on their front porch looking out on their farm. Winograd says, “It feels like a charmed life.”

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