Katy Boswell
The Boss
Katy Boswell has dedicated her entire life to her love of horses. As a young girl she began taking riding lessons at Kenmore Stables in Mission Valley. She started her equine career working for Bob Bradley at Bonita Valley Farm, then for Sally Black at Blackland Farm in Bonita, where she managed the business operations, taught riding lessons, and competed in local horse shows on her mare Auspicious Cass. Before venturing into her own business, she also taught for Chuck Esau Training Stables in Rancho Bernardo.
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Katy started Hidden Fox Farm in Lakeside in 1995. In 1999, Katy and Mike purchased the present La Cresta property and built the new facility. The farm has experienced much growth and success, with riders consistently winning Year End Awards in their equitation age groups for the Greater San Diego Hunter Jumper Association.
Alyssa Hall
Alyssa Hall started riding when she was 10 at a local barn where she learned the basics of horsemanship and began assisting the owner with lessons, showing in Dressage and Hunter/Jumper shows.
After college, Alyssa began work as a groom for Grand-prix dressage riders and trainers David and Rebecca Blake. She learned to work under pressure, pay attention to details, and master the art of stable management. She assisted the vet and farrier and worked with a variety of different horses.
In 2019 she began working with Sandy Burns Gardner, a talented dressage rider and trainer. Her duties included grooming, lunging, warm-ups, therapy machines, medical and emergency situations, dispensing feed and medications, teaching riding lessons, training coworkers, assisting the head trainer, exercising and riding sales horses, starting babies, training young horses, managing a stable business, and working with clients.​
Mike Boswell
If it's broke, Mike fixes it.
Mike Boswell is a retired agricultural/civil engineer who fell in love with horses late in life. After taking Western and Dressage riding lessons, Mike met Katy in 1996 and started taking Jumping lessons from her at Hidden Fox Farm, Katy's Hunter/Jumper barn in Lakeside.
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In 1999, Mike and Katy bought the current property in Crest and built the new Hidden Fox Farm. In 2003 it all burned down, including the house, in the Cedar Fire. So, Mike and Katy rebuilt it all, with the considerable help and support of our friends and customers.
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While Katy and her team run the operations at the barn, Mike takes care of farm construction and maintenance, buys the feed, and handles some of the business functions. He also likes to shop and cook and keep the home fires burning.
Nowadays, Mike loves trail riding on his new Morgan horse "Bodie".
