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“OH, THIS is nothing,” Avery Faulkner, one of Moody’s customers said. “You should be here around seven o’clock in the morning during hunting season.”
“Yeah, we’re pretty busy during hunting,” Moody agreed. “We usually get about six or seven horses, and riders too, ready to hunt with Rappahannock. And I get Pete to take another five or six horses over to hunt with Warrenton. It’s crazy some mornings; crazy,” Moody said. “But it all gets done without a hitch,” Faulk* ner added.
Old Mill Stables is a handsome collection of barns and sheds, including an old mill on the Thornton River, all painted a deep brown and trimmed in white. The whole complex straddles a sharp curve in old Route 522, not far from the Fletcher farm where Moody Aylor grew up.
Moody Aylor got his chance to run Old Mill Stables in 1969. “Before that I used to go ‘round and break a few colts, shoe some horses, but I never had any regular business. I was working for Mr. Fletcher. Then Mr. Lane took notice of Mr. Fletcher’s horses. We always had ’em looking pretty nice and had ’em more fit that a lot of
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