“Obviously, I had a family that was split up a lot,” she says. Karazissis was calm and reassuring, a welcome force for the youngest kid in a sprawling showbiz family. In the summer, it would be all day, every day,” she says.
“Tuesday through Sunday, every morning, I was here riding with him for about four hours a day, five hours a day. When the Cyrus family moved to Los Angeles in the mid-2000s, Far West Farms owner Nick Karazissis - an amiable, award-winning rider now in his seventies - took Noah under his wing. “He bucked, drug my dad through the mud,” Noah says. She’s been riding her entire life one of her earliest baby photos shows her wearing a tiny red cowboy hat atop Roman, a towering, blue-eyed Appaloosa that her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, broke himself on his farm in Nashville - though not before Roman fractured one of the most famous noses in country music. This has been Noah Cyrus’ sanctuary since she was about 10 years old. From the entrance of the farm, the perpetual roar of the 101 and the anxiety of Los Angeles fade away, replaced with rustling trees and the occasional bray of a horse. The reward, once you’ve made it, is a rush of silence.
If you’re in a car, you wind your way down Ventura Boulevard and around anonymous office buildings, past the flower-strewn pet cemetery where Humphrey Bogart buried his cocker spaniel Droopy, through groves of bursting palms and spiky hedge plants. Far West Farms, bucolic, family-run riding center perched off a chalky street in Calabasas, California, takes some effort to find.
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