Not your Average
Eventing & Dressage Barn
Fine Idea Farm is a full-care eventing and dressage facility in Mt. Airy, Md., owned and operated by FEI eventer/USDF medalist Abby Gibbon. Our goal is to pioneer a new model of training for the thinking rider, leveraging years of competitive experience with the exploration of sports psychology, theory and the latest multimedia technology to provide a dynamic, all-encompassing approach. Our aim is to help riders find greater fulfillment in equestrianism both in and out of the saddle, leaving no corner unturned, fueled by the belief that there’s always more to learn.
Centrally located 45 minutes from Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C., our 56+ acres are home to 19 stalls, an 80×160 indoor arena, spring-fed pond and gently rolling fields for turnout and hacking. The Howard County-Iron Bridge Hunt Club and Patuxent River State Park (featuring an extensive trail system) are both within hacking distance, and we’re less than a mile from the Damascus Equine veterinary practice. Several USEA and USDF shows are within an hour’s drive. From the Mt. Airy exit off Route 70, it takes 5 minutes to reach our driveway.
Team Fine Idea
Abby Gibbon
Owner/Trainer/Manager
Paige Wasyluk
Barn Manager/Evil Pony Wrangler
Emma van Hasselt
Working Student Extraordinaire
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Full & Part-Time Working Student Positions Available
Blog
New Old Pen
Recently I bought a fountain pen, the type you fill with bottled ink. It’s the type people used when they upgraded from quills, presumably, to sign twine-bound covenants. All through grad school I had a similar model that I took everywhere, on many transatlantic flights (I’ll drop a little visual for you here: imagine unzipping […]
New USEA Blog
Looking forward to writing a few short pieces for the US Eventing Association about the process of going through the “r” event judging program this year. Click here to read the first installment.
Sense of Beginning
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, […]
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