About Us

Thunder Ridge is a place your horse or pony can call home and a place you can call your home away from home. Professional care in an environment where the details are paid attention to and TLC (tender loving care) in the normal.

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Our Business

Thunder Ridge is owned by Clarissa and her husband Darcy Noble.

Since purchasing in 1992, we have worked very hard to build our farm from the ground up and are continuously making improvements for the betterment of the horses that live here and for the people that spend time with them.

Our son, Landin, also helps in many ways around the farm. General maintenance, making and transporting hay or simply loving on the critters we have been so blessed to care for.

Biography

Clarissa Noble has been a resident of Frederick County since 1978. She has been actively involved with horses since 1984.

After graduating from James Wood High School, she attended an equine seminar at Meredith Manor in Waverly, West Virginia and completed various equine classes at Lord Fairfax (Laurel Ridge) Community College.

She started working in the equine industry in 1985 and over the course of 7 years worked for a variety of equine professionals in Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick and Loudoun Counties. These experiences allowed her to become familiar with Arabians, Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, Warm Bloods and ponies and also to become versed in a variety of disciplines such as flat racing, fox hunting, hunter/jumper and showing in both English and Western pleasure and halter classes. She has worked and trained at Marion DuPont Scott Equine Medical Center and several local veterinary clinics in the area.

In 1992 she opened her own equine business, Thunder Ridge, Inc. Her business included breaking, training, breeding, boarding, English and Western instruction and showing in various disciplines.

Thunder Ridge currently now operates as a full care boarding facility with training and lessons available for boarding horses only.