Owner – Shari Glickman

Shari Glickman started riding dressage as a 30-something professional woman fulfilling her childhood dream to have her own horse some day. Having done nothing more than YMCA camp trail rides as a child, Shari began “up-down” lessons at a large suburban riding school in 1992. After 6 months of groupriding lessons, she purchased an older OTTB from the school. It wasn’t long thereafter that Shari was bitten by the dressage bug and over the next 15 years during the ownership of three horses boarded at five different barns, she decided her new dream was to have her horses at home.

It seems like every horse owner has a “heart horse” and Baronessa aka Ness, whom Shari bought as a green-broke 3 year old in 2001, was definitely THE ONE! In 2003, Shari purchased a fixer-upper 7 acre farmette and named the new property GoodNess Ridge Farm in honor of Baronessa. It was a beautiful place up on a hill surrounded by woods and rolling farm land.

Shari bred a few warmblood youngsters while keeping Baronessa in a nearby training barn. Baronessa was a little too spirited for Shari to ride home alone in the grass arena of the original GoodNess Ridge Farm yet really thrived in the structure and activity of a training barn. Shari loved her little breeding program but now realized her real dream was to have her heart horse at home, too! To fulfill this revised dream, Shari embarked on the search for the perfect barn! Many properties were explored for at least a year before the current GoodNess Ridge Farm came on the market. The rest as they say, “was history.”

Shari suffered a spinal cord injury after a car accident in early 2008. Neurosurgery and physical therapy helped tremendously, but Shari was left with a partially paralyzed left leg.  While Shari was out of the saddle rehabbing her back injury, Baronessa was in professional training with JJ Tate and in 2008 competed successfully at Prix St. Georges. In 2009, Shari resumed riding, went to England, and was classified as a Profile 19b, Grade IV Para-Equestrian rider. Currently, Shari and Baronessa are competing in the Grade IV Para-Equestrian,  as well as in Open Fourth Level classes, while Siobhan Byrne keeps Baronessa tuned up in all of her FEI work.