LF H/J barn in Charlottesville/Richmond/somewhere in between (VA)... with an indoor?

[saturnalian]

I’m not looking to move yet/probably soon, just want to get on a waitlist if need be and get my ducks in a row for when it is time to move.

I just read a couple of posts about training/dealing with younger horses and I’d like to have a plan to do training board or at least have more instruction than I currently do in case we need it as my boy gets older, or at the very least to know where to go when it’s time to start showing.

I have a coming 3 year old who was started before I bought him, and a trainer who is able to make it out once a week for instruction. I’m at a nice boarding barn currently but it’s private with no in-house trainer. My worry comes in that I’ve always been at barns that have a trainer present, so I was able to ask questions in passing/get in another lesson/get a training ride if necessary on a whim (and my horse wasn’t even a baby!). I love my trainer, but she can only travel to my barn once a week and has a lot going on as well, which I totally understand. This is just my first time with a baby, and he has not-so-great ground manners that I’d like to get help with. I feel like you need a lot of consistency when you train a baby, and I just don’t have the confidence at the moment to hear what to do one time then mimic it correctly for a week - I don’t want to ruin him either by being too soft or too hard, or doing the wrong thing at the wrong time.

I’d love to find a true H/J barn that has a program, where I could either just take lessons or put him in a training program if need be once he’s starting to learn how to jump. I want to be involved with his training and learn myself, so I don’t want to just send him somewhere. The catch is… I’m a total wimp and an indoor is 100% a must have, even if just covered!

Does anyone know any barns either around Cville (I live on the east side/Keswick so not too far west), or along 64 up to the west side of Richmond with a good program and an indoor?

Thank you in advance!

[staceymc]

The Barracks in Charlottesville checks all your boxes. Not sure if Brooke Kemper has an indoor but she is lovely and is in Keswick. But she also spends half the year in Florida.

[saturnalian]

@staceymc

The Barracks in Charlottesville checks all your boxes. Not sure if Brooke Kemper has an indoor but she is lovely and is in Keswick. But she also spends half the year in Florida.

Thank you!!
I definitely should have mentioned - I don’t really have “top H/J program” funds, more like “show at like 1 or 2 big shows a year and VHSA/local shows the rest of the time”. I have checked out the Barracks but it seemed a bit hectic with Maria showing so often, the UVA team riding out of there, etc.
I don’t mind being at a barn with a school/riding program and it being busier, but scheduling lessons there seemed a bit difficult!

[chunky_munky]

Jackson Schurtz. Hands down.

[saturnalian]

@chunky_munky

Jackson Schurtz. Hands down.

Is this him? http://www.walnutcovefarm.com/index.html
I don’t see any mention of an indoor unfortunately!

[chunky_munky]

No that is his mother’s place. He has a small very nice indoor at his place. And his place is much closer to Cville. Greenway Farm in Afton, close to I-64.

[saturnalian]

@chunky_munky

No that is his mother’s place. He has a small very nice indoor at his place. And his place is much closer to Cville. Greenway Farm in Afton, close to I-64.

I did see Greenway but didn’t know he was training there! Awesome, thank you so much!

[blondewithchrome]

May want to try sulu reed @ stillmeadows. She has an indoor, and some clients show but others don’t. I think VCU rides out of her barn too but I think it’s less hectic than the UVA program at the barracks. Not sure, though.