12/07/2022
After nearly 30 years in business, last week we closed up the barns for the last time. After my mother died last year, I tried to run things as well as I could from London, but it was a pretty tough year for everyone in the horse business. Ultimately, after almost a year of soul-searching, I made the difficult decision to end our boarding business, and this week we completed the sale of the farm.
Every inch of the property holds layers and layers of memories. Before we moved there, dairy cows roamed the farm along with the hunt horses who ran with Golden’s Bridge Hounds. Generations of children learned to ride there, and countless new faces first encountered North Salem’s incredible rural beauty through boarding with us. RiverHorse Farm is beloved. I was so lucky to grow up there and to steward it through some of its time in the horse life of this town. We were not the first family to love this farm, and we won’t be the last.
Thank you to so many who supported me this year, and to those who love this farm as I do. In particular, I would never have made it through the year without our generous, understanding, kind boarders and their wonderful horses, and RHF’s caring and dedicated staff. I wish you all happiness, love, and success. I will carry the memories of our time together forever, along with the most impactful years of my life on our special farm. What a journey; what a privilege. Thank you all.
Love,
Fiona
