Stonehouse Stables offers quality care for your special horse. Standard board includes pasture turnout in one of our four large pastures, completely fenced with Fencecrafter four-board oak fencing and Rohn quick-latch gates. All horses are individually walked to and from pasture and are brought in for all grain feedings. This gives our well-trained staff an opportunity to see your horse twice daily. We feed high quality Southern States grain and hay is personally selected and monitored by owner/manager/trainer Tara Mathews Best. All animals are required to be on the Strongid 2X-C daily worming program. With prescribed veterinary care from a participating veterinarian, and if the animal otherwise qualifies, this worming program makes the animal eligible for Pfizer Drug Company's Preventicare Program (see our veterinarian for details).

 

Boarding Charges:

*Monthly $ 525

*Worming (per month - Strongid 2X-C) $ 35

*Paddock Turnout (per month) $ 75

*Monthly Activity Fee (non lesson takers or for use on our extra services) $100

 

Our trained and experience workers can also provide services such as bathing, clipping, body clipping and horse care (hand walking and other special care arrangements). Discuss these options with our manager Tara Best or with our horse care specialist Jennifer Gardner.

Facilities:

Our equestrian support center is a family oriented and family operated 52 acre farm where horses meet families. With two family homes on the property, we are right here to oversee operations and be available in emergencies. All riding areas (lighted show ring, lighted grass ring, small grass ring and indoor lighted training arena) are open for boarder use when not in use for lessons. A mile and a half long private lakeside wooded riding trail provides a pleasant diversion from ring riding and incorporates some hills and a bridge.

The 28 stall boarder barn features 12 x 12 stalls and is a state-of-the-art Barnmaster barn. There is automatic watering in each stall, two wash stalls with hot and cold water, a 16 foot wide concrete center aisle and wooden tack boxes for each stall. A utility/feed room, office, lounge area with viewing windows facing the show ring , and modern restroom facilities complete this ringside facility.

 

School horses and overflow boarders are housed in the school barns containing a total of 12 stalls with automatic watering, a restroom, storage room, and school tack room. Our four pastures and two paddocks are four board oak fencing by Fencecrafters and are equipped with automatic watering so that no horse should ever be thirsty. Excellent relationships with veterinarians from Tidewater Equine Vet Clinic,  Woodside Equine Clinic, Certified Equine Dentists, and our farrier Charlie Faber allow us wonderful access to these important services.

Our boarder and own horses are carefully watched over by Jennifer Gardner.   She helps to maintain the highest quality standards that we adhere to here at Stonehouse Stables.  Please feel free to discuss any boarding questions with her at ssJLGardner@cox.net or with Tara Best.

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Directions to Stonehouse Stables
From Interstate 64 heading west, take Exit 231A. Turn right at Rout 60 to Toano. Turn left on Forge Road, marked as Route 610 (at Fire Station). Proceed 2.3 miles and Stonehouse Stables is on your right. Look for the sign.

From Interstate 64 heading east, take Exit 227 which puts you on Route 30. Route 30 turns to Route 60 at the first light (go straight). As you enter Toano, turn right onto Forge Road, marked as Route 610 (at Fire Station). Proceed 2.3 miles and Stonehouse Stables is on your right. Look for the sign.