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To: CindyDawg; HairOfTheDog; AnAmericanMother

As far as I know, the establishment is no more.

It had what we like to call a checkered past (about which we found out well after I was out of there) . . . the stable owner was fond of little girls, and his wife was beaten with a hammer during a robbery. (I can't remember if she died or was just incapacitated.)

I Googled the farm name and it doesn't exist online, except in one riding instructor's bio. Maybe I could e-mail the instructor and see what she knows.


92 posted on 03/22/2007 11:33:48 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Xenalyte

Yikes. Maybe we don't want an update after all.


93 posted on 03/22/2007 11:34:46 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Xenalyte
Wow.

I'll make an observation here -- barns where they have "a checkered past" tend to have problems in all areas.

My own experience bears this out. You do not want to see a barn where you ride show up in the appellate reporters, but that's just what happened one day as I was reading through the advance sheets.

I had had a bad feeling about the owner of this barn, just didn't trust him, but figured that (1) I knew my way around horses and wasn't going to get in any trouble on his school horses; and (2) I wasn't buying a horse from him, so he couldn't cheat me.

Once I saw that, I changed barns (he got socked with a large verdict, including punitives, against one of his own boarders for cheating her on a horse). A guy who'll cheat his boarders will do ANYthing. And at that time, my oldest child was just old enough to start being interested in horses and wanting to learn to ride.

I found a much better trainer . . . still with her after all these years!

98 posted on 03/22/2007 11:44:19 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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