Sarah and Nick Armentrout own and operate Spring Creek Farm, LLC and co-founded The Equest Therapeutic Riding Center. Both are native Mainers and long-time friends since childhood growing up in Kennebunk, Maine. Sarah and Nick have been involved in the equine industry and running horse facilities for the past 15 years. After spending three years together in Hailey, Idaho managing The Sagebrush Arena and instructing students through the Sagebrush Equine Training Center for the Handicapped (SETCH), they returned home to Maine and established a farm of their own in 1998. Together they bring a balance of professional training and hands-on experience which helps to make Spring Creek Farm a unique place. The farm is their home, which they share with a son, Jacob, and twin daughters, Ivy and Hazel.

Sarah is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Equest. She is an Advanced Level Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor through the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association and has taught therapeutic riding since 1994. Outside of her work at Equest and caring for her family, she pursues her life-long love of riding. Having owned a horse since a young age, Sarah kept riding in the foreground through high school and college, where she competed intercollegiately and captained the Trinity College Equestrian Team in 1991-92. Following college, her interest in therapeutic riding grew, and she began volunteering at centers in Maine and eventually went on to work and train at The National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy in Woodside, California. In 1993, she moved to Hailey, Idaho, where together with Nick, they managed a facility and taught therapeutic riding. While there, she became a working student for Peggy Cummings, and today hosts an annual Connected Riding™ clinic with Peggy on the farm. Sarah currently rides with dressage trainer Jackie Smith and enjoys growing and learning in dressage and eventing with her new mount Braveheart.

Nick spent five intensive years out west as a wrangler, ranch hand and just generally cowboying around Montana, Wyoming and Idaho from 1992-1996. His passion for agriculture, horses and hard labor brought him to work for numerous outfits, with interesting characters, top-hands and buckaroos that most people only get to read about. Besides building an incredible amount of fences, Nick learned to toss a loop and took up team roping. He attended clinics with trainers and horsemen like, Tom Dorrance, Buck Brannaman, Martin Black and Pat Weiss. When Sarah arrived on the scene, he somehow got talked into dressage, and started to think more seriously about his riding. Today, he is as active a rider as his time allows, but is most often aboard a tractor or caring for other's horses.