Westchester estate horse country at its quietest
Old Salem Farm sits on 120 manicured acres of Westchester County estate land, an hour north of Manhattan and built around a classic gabled show barn that has anchored the New York hunter/jumper scene for half a century. The Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Show runs two weeks in mid-May, drawing strings from Wellington, Aiken, and the Florida training centers for the first major outdoor competition of the New York summer season. Palomo lines up transporters who know the Mead Street back lane, the West Side Drive approach that avoids the Saw Mill traffic, and the vetted Fairfield County layover barns for cross-state arrivals.