Walnut Way Farm

Marilyn started her career in Charleston, West Virginia. At the early age of 16, she established a thriving riding school at her own Breezy Knoll Stables. She received a B.A in Education. She was greatly influenced by her own instruction under Helen Crabtree and Don Reinhart. She took the assistant trainer position at Happy Valley Farms where Bob Vessel, Lloyd Teater and Sam Brannon trained. In 1973, still in her twenties, she purchased a beautiful farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky that she named Walnut Way. As an owner, trainer, instructor and judge, Marilyn has celebrated many, many championships of both horse and rider.