About the Owners

Born and raised in Holland, Klara’s first word was “paard”, the Dutch word for horse. She began riding lessons at age nine from a dressage veteran, Jan van der Sluijs. All school vacations were spent as a working student cleaning stalls, grooming and tacking horses for lessons, and riding horses while learning as much as she could. Klara continued as a working student at dressage and therapeutic riding stables throughout her young life. She participated for several years coaching disabled children on horseback. Later, working in different parts of Europe as a tour guide, Klara sought out the barns and rode English. After moving to the United States in 1993, she began to study western in conjunction with natural horsemanship techniques. Klara is an ARIA certified riding instructor in dressage and recreational riding.

 

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Klara’s partner, Bill Gabriel, loved vacationing summers at his aunt’s house in Cape Cod during his childhood. Spending innumerable hours in the company of horses at the neighbor’s horse barn, Bill learned horse behavior, developed riding skills, and most importantly, learned the complexities of a working barn. Bill is an established contractor and master plumber, building the barns, customizing stalls, installing watering systems, lighting, and designing indoor and outdoor arenas for Wilson Brook Farm. Visiting Holland with Klara, Bill fell in love with the Friesian horse and, in August of 2006, imported a Friesian mare, “Antje”, to WilsonBrookFarm. Antje's foal, Zefiro van de Wilsonbrook was born on June 2nd 2007

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