meet the team.
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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.
Sarah Storms
Barn Manager
​​Growing up in Northern Vermont, Sarah developed a love of horses early in life. She spent her summers on her cousins’ horse farm, learning to ride, hay, and participating in 4-H and Pony Club. After graduating high school she served five years in the military and then became a certified Small Animal Veterinary Assistant. She has dabbled in several riding disciplines, mostly Western, but is now learning dressage with Felicia coaching her. Sarah’s true passion is retraining problematic auction horses and then selling them to suitable homes. Sarah and her retired mare, Doc Eyed Dazy, both live on the property at RRF.​​​
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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
