Located in Waynesboro, Virginia, Memory's Hill Stables sits on 45 acres of rolling farmland at the foot of the Blue Ridge. Owner and head trainer Ashley Holsinger has built one of the region's most active hunter/jumper programs here, with a competition schedule that runs from local SWVHJA and VHSA circuits to USEF and USHJA rated shows at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala. Between the property's two barns, 36 stalls house boarders, sale horses, and training horses, along with a thriving IEA team and a full lesson program.
The operation asked American Stalls to design and manufacture the interior stabling package for the rebuilt lower barn: Sliding Stall Fronts, Stall Partitions, and the StableComfort Stall Mattress system engineered for horses that live and work at a competition pace year-round.
A barn built to serve a working schedule
Ashley approached the project the way a professional horseman thinks about facility decisions. Every element was judged first by how it holds up in daily use, then by how it looks. Horses at Memory's Hill are groomed, tacked, and turned out on a schedule that does not slow down for weather or season. The stabling had to match that pace.
Inside, the finished barn reads as calm and deliberate. Warm wood tones sit against black powder-coated steel, and the aisle carries that palette from the entry doors straight through to the wash racks.
Sliding stall fronts, built for a hunter/jumper barn
Each stall front is a sliding design, chosen for the way it keeps the aisle clear during busy morning and afternoon rushes. The upper section carries vertical bar grillwork with generous spacing for airflow and visibility. The lower section is finished in warm wood infill for insulation, sound dampening, and the traditional look Ashley wanted for the barn's interior.
We built each sliding door without a yoke. It is a conscious choice for this program. In a boarding and training operation with horses coming and going for shows and lessons, a closed grill front reduces the risk of stall-front behaviors and keeps every horse's routine consistent. Ventilation and visibility come from the full grill above, so the horses still see and breathe as they should.
Below the grill on each sliding door, a bottom mesh insert acts as a shavings guard and gives horses a lower sight line at aisle level. The mesh is welded into the frame with the same finish as the surrounding steel, so the detail reads as part of the door rather than an add-on.
A Blanket Bar is mounted horizontally across each sliding door. It puts a folded cooler or day sheet within arm's reach of a groom moving down the aisle, which matters when the barn has fifteen horses to prepare for a warm-up hack.
Stall partitions built for a boarding barn
The partitions between stalls are a full-privacy design, finished in warm wood from floor to top rail. 
For a boarding and training barn, this is the configuration that tends to hold up. Solid lumber gives horses complete visual separation at feed time, cuts down on cross-stall contact when new horses arrive, and keeps neighbors from working each other up when the aisle gets busy. Every partition sits inside a heavy-duty channel system engineered to hold shape over decades of daily use.
A stall mattress system for horses in work
Under the shavings, every stall received the StableComfort Stall Mattress system. For a program where horses ship to Ocala for the winter circuit and return to Waynesboro for the summer, the mattress system does two things at once. It cushions the joints of horses that jump, hack, and school on a full weekly schedule, and it reduces the volume of bedding required to keep a stall dry and comfortable. Over the course of a year, that changes the labor math for a barn manager, and it changes the comfort math for the horses that live in them.
The mattress system installs beneath the shavings, sealed and edged so the surface reads as one continuous cushion rather than a patchwork. Combined with the sliding fronts and partitions, the stalls feel deliberate from every angle. It is the kind of finish work that boarders notice on the first tour and grooms notice on the hundredth day.
A finished space
Standing in the center aisle, the barn reads as calm. Light passes cleanly between stalls. Horses hear each other, see each other, and settle into their routines. Ashley and her team can move a horse from paddock to grooming stall to stall front without navigating around swinging doors or unfinished corners.
This is the kind of project the American Stalls team takes on with real pride. A working barn for a working horseman, engineered around what the operation actually does every day. Our thanks to Ashley Holsinger and the entire Memory's Hill Stables team for trusting us with the stalls, partitions, and mattresses for this build.
Photography by Austin Kaseman.
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