Envision the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains where you can saddle up to canter through a shady forest trail laced with mountain laurel in bloom or relax as your horse drinks from a cool mountain stream as it cascades into a hundred little waterfalls. My name is Peggy Blanche, and after over two decades of competing and training numerous horses and riders to world championship titles I was ready to break away from the stressful life of non-stop showing and traveling and find just such an oasis.