Cob Jockey

I finally got to the barn during daylight hours and was able to take photos to join in on the blog hop!  I know it said 5 photos, but this is a really difficult facility to photograph with 5 photos, so have a photo smorgasboard.



1. View of the Barn (and indoor)

Our facility was once just a family farm centered around the old antique barn.  The BO's daughter got into eventing, met my trainer, and the facility has slowly taken shape around that partnership.  It's rough around the edges in a way that I truly love, and beautiful in the way it's meticulously maintained and improved by the BO.

One side of the main barn, 5 stalls, feed/tack, one set of crossties and gator/tractor storage.

They make impressive use of the space they have, and everything is designed for maximum operational efficiency and horse happiness.  It looks like a maze of stalls on top of stalls if you're only used to seeing a center aisle planned-from-the-beginning barn. Austen says it freaks her out that there's no obvious main entrance to the barn, but nobody minds that.

Hay loft

The "other side" of the main barn.  Wash rack and one stall on the right, paddock entrance straight ahead, new stall, stairs to the bathroom/shower and storage loft, and Connor's stall on the left (not pictured here).

2. My horse's living space

Connor's stall is the one with the fan.

That's my blue tack trunk and my hooks hanging there.  None of the horses are ever in during the day, but Connor likes being in the center of the action by the crossties and wash rack when things are going on at night.  He's also allowed to just run into his stall when they bring them in if the night person is comfortable with that, since this area is totally enclosed and he runs straight into his stall anyway.

And a view of his stall from the second loft (storage loft).

3. View of the tack room

There are two tack rooms in the main barn, one in the little barn, and one in my trainer's barn.  Like I said, making use of all available space!  Plus we're eventers, we all have a lot of tack.

Here's the main tack room:

I spilled water right before taking this picture.  Oops.

And here's my tack room, which is also a feed room:

Everyone gets two saddle racks, because this is an eventing barn.  Mine are top and bottom, second from left.

I also keep a blanket liner/saddle pad box in the storage loft (white lid).  And my small show trunk is under the stairs.  There's so much storage space that I have no need to keep anything at my house, which is awesome.

4. A view of where we ride

Welp, normally that's here:

Outdoor arena built in 2011 with the same footing the KHP has (but not the same base).  There are four stalls, a center aisle and a tack/feed room in the little barn you see there.

But you can see that's sort of out of commission at the moment.  So that's here:

Indoor, and half of Connor's turnout field

Like all indoors, it's smaller than you'd like but a really nice place to ride.  Not heated.

We also ride here, in the open field we use for grass stadium jumping:

Miss you, summer.

Barn #3 is at the end of that treeline, too.  Mostly retirees and laid up horses are down there.

Those pictures are so bleak.  How about a green shot of the stadium field from last summer?