Vicki Wentzell

Vicki’s love of horses started at a very young age when she began lessons at just 3 years old. Her father bought her first horse when she was 12, a Morgan gelding named Hamrock Sir Prize.

Several years after that Vicki’s family’s farm, Crosswind Farms, grew to over twenty Morgan horses.  They showed up and down the East coast in the Morgan circuit as well as attending the World Championship in Oklahoma City, OK. As a youth and Amateur, Vicki won 7 World and Grand National Championships between 1982-1989 while attending college at William Woods in Fulton, Missouri for Equestrian Science.

Vicki married in 1988 and had two children and began enjoying horses with her family. Crosswind Farms moved to Elkin, North Carolina in 1994. Vicki has always had boarders at her private family farm and given lessons throughout her adult life. Vicki’s daughter showed horses in several disciplines ranging from running barrels and poles, hunter jumper as well as the quarter horse circuit.  Vicki’s family trail rode and horse camped throughout her kids’ childhood as well.

Vicki worked as a Veterinary Technician from 1998-2002 at a mixed animal practice in Jonesville , NC.  Later, she worked  as a Veterinary Technician in Tucson AZ for an all equine three doctor practice from 2008-2009.

In 2005 Vicki took a position with a Belgian show, training and breeding farm. There she assistant managed and trained over 60 head of horses.  She started all the youngsters under saddle and birthed out from 10-18 mares each spring.

Vicki’s family farm name has always stayed with her and was reborn in Asheville in 2009 when she leased and remodeled a facility in North Asheville. In the early spring of 2010, Crosswind moved one more time to the beautiful facility it resides at now. Here at Crosswind Vicki has six of her own horses and one more that she leases along with three dogs and two cats. Vicki’s son, Sean, is a Marine serving currently in Afghanistan. He still enjoys trail riding when time allows him to get to Asheville. Vicki’s daughter, Marisa, was killed in a car accident in June of 2009. Her memory is still alive and a large part of Crosswind Farms today.