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By Walker Elliott Rowe
Special to the Rappahannock News
It’s a quiet cloud-covered day in December and Moody Aylor, 69, sets out across several thousand acres of melting snow with six other horseback riders in pursuit.
These riders range in skill from expert to intermediate. No beginning riders are present today but they are welcome at the sfables at Moody’s Training and Riding Center at the old mill in Sperryville.
The horses walk and trot across the pastures, laboriously climb up steep mountain trails, and then sally down the other side. The horse that Moody rides today is a student as well for Moody cracks it across the neck with his crop trying to give it some discipline and break its bad habits. Moody hollers “WAAAALK”—as if the word has more than one —syllable because the horse is trying to bolt.
Moody has about 40 horses that he owns or boards at his riding center located at the old mill two miles south of Sperryville on Route 522 on the Thornton river.
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