Erica Lucas grew up in Pepper Pike Ohio.  She took fifteen years of English Equitation training from wonderful riding academies such as the Som School of Equitation, Blue Lakes Farms, Dorchester Farms, The Hunt Club and Red Raider Farms.   After many years of lessons, Erica bought a couple older race horses that were “bred in the purple” and galloped through the Metroparks of Gates Mills, Chagrin Falls and Holden Arboretum for years of fun. 

One day, Erica got tired of riding through the winter months and decided with her husband of twenty-five years to move near her parent’s winter home in South Florida.  Erica and Steve bought a little horse farm in Lake Worth with their three sons and their animals including a couple great horses.  One was a big thoroughbred gelding named “Jack” that had just been off the race track one year and the other was a nice calm young Tennessee walker named “Shine”. 

Two very important events changed Erica’s life.  The first one was one Saturday morning when during a riding session, a nice Boynton Beach woman stopped and asked Erica if she could give her daughter some lessons.  Next, Erica traded her Thoroughbred, Jack, to her sister for an amazing horse named “Cash the Check”.  You can hear Miss Erica tell her students that Cash has won more ribbons then there are people in Texas.  Thus was the start of Coral Reef Riding Academy and later New Spirit Farm.