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The Stable Times

Walk into Fox Crossing, especially on a summer morning, you know you’re in a kid-friendly world. Fox Crossing has had a number of transformations over the years but seems to be currently at its happiest. Every weekend and after school during the week, the barn is filled with children of various ages.

Owner Cindy Italiaander’s path to Fox Crossing may have been a bit circuitous. A New Jersey suburban girl who became a NY city woman with a career in the fashion industry is now a country gal surrounded with barn life – mud, manure and frequent mayhem associated with horses. Cindy takes it all in stride. Her competitive nature has served her well and she’s created a successful business at Fox Crossing.

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CT Insider, Litchfield County Times

A cold wind swept across the hills of Morris on a recent gray, late-winter day. Inside the well-lit stables and riding ring at the Fox Crossing Equestrian facility on South Street (Route 61) there is plenty of action. Riders were taking steeds through their paces in the center’s 200-by-80-foot ring, an instructor bathed a horse within a heated wash stall in the attached paddock, a worker mucked out a stall and owner Cindy Italiaander was giving a guided tour of her operation.

The energetic former Manhattanite, whose first life was in the hustle and bustle of the haute-couture fashion world, can’t believe how far her new, more earthy, business has come in a mere two years. Its anniversary is Feb. 28…

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