Clinics are held to educate horse owners and lovers on a wide variety of topics, in a group setting and in a friendly atmosphere. Clinics make great club activities or fundraisers for a wide variety of horse groups.

Clinics are held randomly at CLF during the year on a wide range of topics. Watch this web site for updates on clinics or to sign-up for the e-mail newsletter on farm events. A sampling of clinic topics:

• Round pen training for humans
• Kind and consistent methods for starting a green horse
• So you want to drive? -round pen to longlining to ground driving to hitching
• Does your equipment help or hurt your training goals? -fitting saddles, bridles and bits, correct application of various training aids
• So you want to compete in a horse show? -proper show ring etiquette for safety and a positive impression, correct equipment and its use, warming up prior to the class, packing to attend the show, picking the best classes to compete in, understanding the rules (bring your questions)
• Are you reaching your personal goals? Are you and your horse suited for each other? Are you progressing at a good pace? What problems are you facing that you just can't get past? (great topic to gather participants and auditors for an activity or fundraiser.)
• Call with ideas you may have for topics to cover in a clinic.

Prices vary by topic and the number of participants. Call for pricing and scheduling.

~ A great time will be had by all! ~

New Horse Owner's Course

The New Horse Owner's course is a three week program that is designed for the horse lover that wants to buy their first horse or a horse owner that is bringing their horse home from a boarding facility.

A sampling of the topics covered:

• Design and barn layout--stall design, grooming area, tack storage, feed storage
• Health care--shots, worming, taking vital signs, colic, founder
• Feeding--types of hay, when and how to buy it, types of grain, supplements, storage of feed
• Parts of the horse and pre-purchase exams, conformation form to function
• Types of tack--selection of saddles, bridles, bits, blankets, training equipment
• Hands on horsehandling--safety first, understanding horses' thoughts and reactions....and so much more (bring your questions)

You will get a folder and hand-outs of everything covered to use as a future reference. Please bring a pen and notebook. The current price for this course is $175 with a minimum of four people. Family rates are available.

Just to let you know that I can start up another 3 week session of my New Horse Owner's Course. It is great for new horse owners, horse owners bringing their horses home from boarding, refresher for folks getting back into horses and parents of a horse crazy child. It is held in 3 sessions on Saturdays from 1:00pm - 5:00pm. This is my 8th year of offering this class. Please tell anyone you think may be interested and could benefit from this course.

The course will cover:
Horse Care: feeding, routine care, selection of feeds, emergency care until the vet can arrive, health care overview (colic, founder, EPM, EPSM, cushings, insulin resistance and more), spring shots, and worming

Stable Management: selection of barn equipment, stable design and layout, ideas for planning the layout on property, stable cleaning, upkeep, types of bedding, storage of hay and feed Tack and Equipment: selection, care, parts, measuring, use of training aids, fitting saddles and bridles, learning about the styles of riding and driving, bits and their uses and much more

Horse Handling: safely catching and haltering, leading, learn to read a horse's emotions and thought processes, safety rules to live by, round pen basics, how to handle the horse for the vet and farrier.

Question and Answer time at each session and remember there are no stupid questions!

You need to contact me and sign up early and spaces fill up quickly.

Thanks and I hope to see some of you here, it is a great learning experience.

Open Barn

The Open Barn has been an annual event since 1992. There is an average of 250 to 300+ attendees each year. Our Open Barn is always the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Refreshments are served. Bring your camera, it is a great day in the "Quiet Corner of Connecticut.".

• We offer rides to the children that attend for a donation to help rescued horses
• There are many different kinds of demonstrations offered throughout the day.
• Used and new tack is for sale.
• Meet beautiful Morgan horses, and their friends.
• Sign-up programs are available for upcoming clinics, and lesson openings.

This is always a great time!! If you have attended in the past and have taken nice photos, I would love to see them. Call or email if you need directions -- held rain or shine.