I took a tour of this farm late spring of last year. While the girl who showed me around was very nice and eager to answer all of my questions, she lacked information on the simple things like what specific grain they use and type of hay they provide. Mind you this was a planned tour - the wash stall was full with manure, the indoor had a deep rut around the outside track, the stalls were being cleaned and cleaned thoroughly, but they park a truck in the center of the aisle way to do so, making it inconvenient to anyone in the barn and putting harmful gas fumes in the horses if left in the stalls for the day. From what I could see the fields offer minimal nutrition forage wise although I was told the farm does provide free choice square bails. This is a very busy lesson barn. The instructors had biographies posted and seem young and just getting their feet wet with teaching/riding, so training available would not support that of the seasoned competitor. There is also no paper contract. Big warning sign in my eyes.
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