meet the team.
Felicia Balzano
Barn Owner/Trainer
Felicia has a long Maryland history, teaching lessons and managing Woodland Horse Center previously, and coaching both their dressage and event teams. She has shown through 4th level dressage and schooled through Grand Prix and competed through Preliminary level eventing. She has been teaching and training professionally since 2005.
She’s trained her horse Dillon successfully through Fourth level dressage and has a couple of exciting prospects coming up through the ranks.
She spent several years outside of Maryland before finding her way back to her home state. During her time away she spent a year riding with Hilda Gurney in California, refining her dressage skills.
In June 2024 she purchased Rainbow Rooster Farm at Southwind. The property has “good bones” for creating exactly the farm that she wants.
Mollie Long
Barn Manager
Mollie grew up in Harwood, Maryland riding and competing on an equitation team. She also spent part of her childhood living on a farm in North Yorkshire, England, where she got her first pony. This is where she discovered her love for eventing. After returning to the states a few years later, she got her event horse. She competed through the BN level with Pete, as well as attending hunter paces, jumper shows, and judged trail rides.
After graduating college, Mollie moved to mount airy in 2024 and shortly after met Felicia after searching for a new place to ride. Since then, she has been training with her on her lease horse Smarty, focusing especially on moving up the levels in Dressage.
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Carolyn Del Grosso
Instructor
A Montgomery County native, Carolyn Del Grosso has done it all: foxhunting, hunter/jumpers, eventing and dressage. She found her true love in dressage, in which she competed to the Grand Prix level with her Hanoverian stallion Arklicht. In addition to teaching and training, she worked in accounting at County Saddlery for more than 20 years and then in 2006 transitioned to a bookkeeping job at the equine publication The Equiery. She has also served for more than 30 years on the Board of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association. Carolyn continues to be an integral part of our team here at RRF, providing outstanding care to our boarders as well as offering lessons.
Barn Staff
Jorge Aristondo
Ephrain Aristondo
