LOCK

[Sadie~Bronson~252]

We could go to my barn! =) We've got twenty riding horses and ponies, and trails, beautiful trails.

Speaking of which, what would you guys consider a 'good' stable. I don't just mean that the trainer is good and you learn a lot, but everything.

I say, it's one where you can work in the ring, and also ride out on the trails as well. I've had kids come for trail rides who've been taking lessons for a couple years at a place where they'd only been in the ring. Get them out on the trail, and they start crying the second their foot falls out of the stirrup. (True story). Trail riding is different than ring work. Sometimes it's harder, since the horses spook much more easily than in the ring (unless they're Henry and I'm riding him.).

A good stable also has other riders around your age who you become friends with. If you don't have friends while riding, it's just not as fun. So if you're somewhere where you haven't made friends yet because you never have time to meet people, then it's not a good stable. I now practically live at Abby's house in the summer because of all the time we put in together working around the barn and going out on trails together.

So, what do you call a good stable?

[MochaTheLlama]

A couldn't have put it in better words Sade. A good stable is probably a place with a friendly enviorment, big open lands, and like said before, friends to ride with. I think Sade just took the words right out of my mouth though.

I think the only person I know that could ride with me is my sister.

[sam sam]

Gah! My playday is canceled, the horses that have been evacuated because of the fire are being kept there, I am hoping to go by and look at them though, see all the sights, and at least be where I was going to be all day anyways.

[OneRowdyNight]

A good stable.... Probably not mine. There's been quite a bit of drama, but at least it's died down a bit. We have iover 75 miles of trails, two arenas, but the stallls could look nicer, as the barn itself is quite old. Alot of boarders left because of the drama and now I have nobody to ride with, as well as NO TRAINER. D:

[sunflower.]

Who's seen Racing Stripes? (The movie about the racing zebra)

[OneRowdyNight]

I have. Pretty good movie, but it made TBs seem rude and stuck up. |:

[sunflower.]

Yeah. But guess what? My horse riding coach, trained the real zebra in the movie!

[OneRowdyNight]

Seriously? That's pretty awesome!

[dearly beloved]

I wish I was as experienced as some of you Dx
How much a week do you ride and for how long?

[Sadie~Bronson~252]

This video shows a little bit of my stables, as do my others. We rarely use our barn (it's about 40 years old, and is a converted cow barn, so it's not the best) Our horses are kept on 24/7 pasture and it works great for them. We don't really have borders (and those who do board usually end up selling their horses to us. I don't know why) The white fence is part of the corral, it has one large arena (which is being used as the escape proof pasture until a new one can be built. Ponies), a smaller one for lunging/small riding work, and the other is also for lunging and where we tie the horses. There's also a second corral that is used either as a holding pen for new horses, or a larger lunging area.