Our goal is to provide a warm, family-friendly, and safe environment on quality horses. Our facility features 12x12 stalls in a heated barn, a large indoor and outdoor arena, and access to trail riding. Turnout is spacious and plentiful with ten pastures and 2 limestone paddocks on twenty acres with paths lined with limestone. Hickory Lane has stalls for 21 horses, 2 tack rooms, a wash stall, and
a heated viewing room. We hay 3 times a day in the spring/summer and 4 times a day in the winter months. Our goal is to provide a caring, family-friendly, and safe environment on quality horses. At Hickory Lane we offer both private and group lessons. Beginners will start in private lessons to establish the basics in a safe, comfortable setting, while more experienced riders will often choose to ride with one other rider in a semi-private, so that while they get individualized attention they are also able to watch and learn from others, all while making friendships. Students participating in riding lessons will also get the opportunity to show! They can choose from one of our in-house schooling shows or take their own or one of our lesson horses to either a PTS or ISC show, both local circuits that riders without their own horses can be competitive on. Hickory Lane also offers shareboarding and leasing opportunities for those that are interested. Kelly Lamphere - Head Trainer
Kelly began her riding career at McIntyre Stables and showed in the children's and then the large juniors on the A circuit with her thoroughbred mare, Good Golly Miss Molly. After selling her mare and graduating college, Kelly moved to Middleburg, Virginia with her paint/thoroughbred cross, Rolex, to write for The Chronicle of the Horse. After her 6 month internship there ended she landed a job as a groom working for Banbury Cross Farm in Middleburg...it is here where her love of eventing and dressage began! After just 3 months she was promoted to Barn Manager of the farm and was off on a whirlwind of education! She was riding 5 to 7 horses a day, fox hunting 3 days a week, and coordinating the turnout and care of over 30 horses. During her time on the farm she got to lesson with some of the biggest names in eventing, handle a strangles scare brought in from quarantine, break horses straight off a truck from Canada, and got to ride across some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. After her 3 years in Virginia came to an end Kelly came home and started teaching lessons at Yakle Acres in Maple Park. In the four years she was there, she grew her lesson program to 18 weekly students. She then moved her program to Feather Creek Equestrian, where she grew to 25 students. After a year at Feather Creek she then decided her program was successful enough to go out on her own and start her training business...Hickory Lane Equestrian!
