Where to begin? As many others have stated, it is a very impressive looking facility and that along with some false advertising about a great XC course and ""dedicated"" management it SEEMS ideal. Here is what they don't tell you:
Barn owner is incredibly unpleasant and difficult to deal with, and there are so many ""barn rules"" that you will inevitably be charged for doing something wrong eventually regardless of whether or not it is stated in your contract (which it won't be).
You must buy hay onsite and unseen---and for three months in winter the hay was strawlike and unpallatable, we even paid to have it tested and results came back as ""no nutritional value"". This combined with a lack of turnout undoubtedly contributed to expensive treatment for ulcers for my horse.
On top of being straw, I did find a mangled piece of rusted barbed wire in one of my bales one month and barn owner refused to replace even that bale.
My horse also went three days without food because nobody bothered to call and tell me I was out of feed. Several boarders throughout the course of one month had found their horses with day-old injuries that nobody bothered to notify them of. I witnessed one horse being dragged to be turned out basically on three legs and I personally had to bring him back in and call the owner.
You basically overpay to rent a stall.
This is why nobody stays there long and there are 20 stalls filled out of 100. The owner literally does not care about your horse, he's too busy thinking of ways to nickel and dime you. This barn's saving grace is the on site trainer whom I trusted to keep an eye out for my baby since I knew nobody else would.
Until a professional with horse experience and people skills decides to take over this facility, I cannot and will not recommend it.
Pros: one covered arena, wonderful on site trainer
Cons: everything else
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