About Us

Trainer/Coach: Caroline Hollingworth

Caroline has been riding for over 22 years. She has competed in the hunter and jumper rings as well as on the line. Showing at the Bronze, Silver and Gold level, she has always enjoyed much success whether it is with her own horses or client horses. Caroline has also been involved in breeding horses for many years and is a supporter of Canadian Bred Horses.

Caroline's main focus has always been around starting and backing youngsters. She enjoys the simple rewards that young horses give when they are learning and developing their skills for the future. She also enjoys working with people to better their skills to make a more complete partnership with their horse.

She enjoyed much success with her horse Emily Murphy competing up to the 1m30's before becoming pregnant with her first child, Mylie. Now her days are spent taking care of her new addition as well as continuing to work with her love of horses.

Owner/Operator: Marilyn and Dave McFadden

Any spare time has been spent on horses or hockey. Probably should have called the farm
"The Double H". The farm, which has been in the McFadden family since 1904, had consisted of cattle
and work horses until the mid 80'S, then a few riding horses started to come in. So many riding horses
came that the cattle had to leave by 1992. The farm hosted a summer camp from 1992 until 2005.

As a youngster Marilyn always had ponies and horses - she never had the opportunity to participate in a
lesson program as there were no facilities around. She competed in western games as a teenager, barrel racing, keyhole race, pickup race and pole bending. She started taking English riding lessons as an adult in 1990 with Tamara Atkinson. Pooka was her first show horse and they competed in the hunter ring, soon followed by horses such as Gracie, Denny and Dexter.

The arena was built in 1996 and Marilyn soon became very busy with lessons and taking students to local schooling shows and then gradually more trillium shows.

Marilyn has always had a soft spot for OTTB, so much time and money has been spent in finding a suitable second career for those that are able and willing. She has been a member of the ECTA since 1993.