Born and raised on her family’s Thoroughbred farm in Warrenton, Va., Carrie was riding before she was walking. Her parents were both small animal veterinarians and her mother, Sandra Fubini, brought her first pony home in the back of the family station wagon when she was nine-months pregnant. Carrie grew up showing ponies with her sister Kristy on the Va. and Fla. show circuits.

After graduating from James Madison University with a degree in Psychology with a minor in Biology and a bent towards genetic counseling, her life took a turn when her mother asked her to manage the family’s animal gift stores right before the Beanie Baby craze hit. The business boomed and was sold in 2000 after an incredible run.

In 2000, Carrie made her way back into Thoroughbreds via her mother’s investment in mares boarded at Buckland Farm in Warrenton, Va. Carrie moved to Ky. in 2001 after she met her husband, Craig, an Australian national, and her mother followed her move several years later, buying a house in Paris, Ky.

In 2001, Machmer Hall, inspired from the hall that bears her great grandfather’s name, Dean Machmer, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and where she attended her first year of college, was born. Today, Machmer Hall is one of the most recognizable names in the Thoroughbred breeding business and is home to more than 250 horses. Horses bred, raised and/or sold by Machmer Hall include Search Results, Tepin, Flat Out, and Mind Your Biscuits. Carrie, along with her husband and mother are partners in the Machmer Hall Sales with Amy Bunt and Michelle and Tom Mullikin. Carrie lives in Lexington, Ky. with her three kids, four dogs and a cat and loves life with all the animals!