Owned by Tom and Carolyn Cadier, Cedar Ridge Farm was designed originally as a fox hunting and thoroughbred training facility in 1991. The owners are members of Shakerag Hounds which is located in Hull, Georgia near Commerce.
The farm has evolved into an equestrian facility focused on the pursuits of classical riding. Eventing is a primary focus, with strong support of classical dressage and show jumping, as well as active participation in fox hunting.
There are currently and have been many students from the University of Georgia as boarders at the farm and Cedar Ridge Farm is a supporter of the University of Georgia Equestrian Team as well as the University’s Large Animal Teaching Hospital.
There is a revolving schedule of different trainers at the upper levels and/or Olympic levels of the classic disciplines that either give lessons or have clinics here on a regular basis. They include Lucinda Green, Phillip Dutton, Clark Montgomery, Silva Martin, Boyd Martin, Ryan Wood, Werner Geven, Rebecca Howard and others.
The owners are regular competitors and have owned an Advanced event horse formerly campaigned by Dutch rider Werner Geven. Esker Riada placed 16th at the 2006 Rolex Kentucky 4-Star Championship and was named to the Dutch eventing team for the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany.
Esker is now owned by a student of Phillip Dutton’s, Cayla Kitayama and having completed two 4-stars with Cayla he moved back to the farm for a semi-retired year. He is now fully retired and living in Statesville, North Carolina. Congrats on a stellar 4-star career with Werner Geven, and with Cayla.
Currently Clark Montgomery has had a regular schedule of lessons at the farm. In the winter season he is based out of Ocala but travels back to CRF for monthly lesson days. We wish him the best of luck as he works towards a spot on the USA Eventing team for the 2012 Olympics in London. Ryan Wood, from True Prospect Farm in PA (Phillip Dutton base) has visited from Aiken to teach lessons during the winter season. Ryan currently has Clapton, (Carolyn’s new 4 y/o Dutch WB) in training and will be competing him at his first HT in May at Fair Hill in Elkton, MD.
On occasion there are horses for sale that have been imported from Ireland, Germany or elsewhere, for a specific discipline. Please visit our news page to see upcoming clinics, lessons, or details on our annual FEH and YEH shows (August 2012).