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“Covid finished me off,” said owner Elaine Fisher.
Lovely View had already been battling rising insurance costs and licensing fees. When lockdown rules banned the school from booking any riding lessons, the business became unsustainable.
Elaine rescued her livelihood by switching to livery, selling the riding school ponies to former students, who now pay her to care for them.
“If I was a riding school now, I wouldn’t be in business,” she said.
Tina Layton owns the Contessa Riding Centre in East Herts.
On Thursday, February 11, she opened her mail and found a certificate confirming her appointment as a fellow of the ABRS.