We love horses and it shows in the care we give them—day in and day out.

  • Horses are fed and watered by our staff—following each individual horse’s dietary requirements. Hay is provided. We offer a barn grain—Nutrena’s Safe Choice Original—but are happy to feed different owner provided grain by request.

    Horses are turned out and brought back in on as many days as possible either into their gendered mudlots or pastures (seasons, grass growth, and weather allowing).

    They are loved on and we keep our eyes on them to make sure that they look healthy day in and day out so that we can report any unusual behavior to you, the owner.

    Owners are required to clean their stalls on a regular basis and expected to exercise them should the weather not permit them being turned out for significant amounts of time.

  • Full care is the same care as “Partial Care”, but in addition we:

    —clean a horse’s stall a minimum of 5 days a week.

    —make sure a horse has a chance to stretch their legs on days they can’t go out into the mud lot or pastures

    —attend on-site farrier and veterinary appointments

Amenities

  • Arena and Round Pen

    We provide both a round pen and a small outdoor arena for exercising and/or training your horse. The arena is 156’x54’—large enough to accommodate hunter/jumper/dressage curious fun, but not large enough to provide a proper training space for anyone looking to be competitive. With such a small community of horses and owners, we don’t often have competition for arena time.

  • Horse Trails

    With 300 acres at our disposal, we have developed miles of trails—ranging from easy flat trails that wind in and out of woods and fields by the Great Miami to far more challenging wooded trails with significant climbs and downhills that can challenge riders and help develop your horse’s hind end. With horse friendly neighbors on top of the hill behind our property, there are even more trails available than we alone maintain.

  • Horse Trailer Parking

    For an additional monthly fee, and as long as there are spots available, boarders are assigned a spot to park their horse trailer just across Miamiview Rd in the barnyard of Carriage House Farm.

  • Invalid/Old Timer Lot

    We keep a pasture for horses who can’t take the rigors of the regular herd. Our blind horse, SonnyD, hangs out there, but so do regular boarders experiencing mild lameness or arthritis. . . or shortness (hey, miniature horses or weanlings, we’re lookin’ about you).

Community

  • Boarders

    We have a hard time being objective about this, but we believe we have some of the best boarders in horseland—kind and generous folks who love their horses beyond all measure.

    Boarders regularly organize group rides on the property open to anyone with a horse in the stables.

    No one is required to help out around the barns, but everyone does. We turn our backs for a second and a barn aisle is swept clean enough to eat off of. Or we drop a load of hay and before we can turn the equipment off, someone’s already stacked it neat and tidy out of the aisle.

    We have volunteer work days when everyone that can pitches in on a big project and then celebrates a job well done after with a big family-style cookout or potluck or drinks down at Lost Bridge Beverage Co.

    This is a kind place. We both pride ourselves on that and feel grateful to be a part of it.

  • Carriage House Farm

    Willow Run Stables is also part of a larger farm community and shares Carriage House Farm—on the eastern quiet end—with the CHF market garden and the expanding willow beds and future making studio of 65 Willows.

    And just down the road, on the western end of the farm, is the CHF Market, Lost Bridge Beverage Co., and Chloe’s Eatery. They have a tie up for horses and on the weekends, while on a trail ride, you can stop and grab a meal or drink and take in live music or a game night or just sit around a fire with friends for a short relax on the terrace.

    And there’s enough wild land at the edges of the fields and on the hill behind the farm that we share the property with loads of wildlife—whitetail deer, wild turkeys, bald eagles, beavers, coyote, rabbits, Great Blue Heron, indigo buntings, bobcats—which you may be lucky enough to spot while on a ride.

    Horses are welcome everywhere so long as they aren’t trampling or eating any crops and are behaving themselves around other patrons of the farm.