I wish I could leave zero stars, horrible experience with this barn and Jai in particular. We don't ride there but after our daughters lease horse passed unexpectedly we wanted to find her a new horse to show on this show season. She was devastated after the passing and wouldn't even go look at other horses until we received the CMS website from her trainer. They do a great job of making it look like every horse they have is perfect. Looks can be deceiving and proved to be for us. We took multiple trips there and came close to purchasing a horse from them until on our daughters second ride on this particular gelding he tried bucking her off. Our daughter got off the horse and the trainer then got on the horse and she was thrown off within 10 seconds. Obviously we didn't buy that horse and found out he tore a ligament a week later.
We decided not to buy yet but to take our time and find the right horse for our daughter and we would lease one of Jai's "perfect" show horses. We were told that this horse would be perfect for our daughter, no issues. She would have a fun, safe summer learning, riding and showing like we planned. So I paid a significant amount of money for a 6 month lease, the horse showed up and our daughter fell in love. Up to this point, Jai was very attentive, always returned calls and texts and there for whatever we needed.
That all changed when we found out that this horse was nothing like what we were told. He's spooked multiple times where our other horses did not and I understand a horse can spook but this horse was sold to us as being "bulletproof". So the spooking is a safety concern but the real safety concern comes with his bolting after a jump. He can be great until he's not and he will just decide that he's done and bolt after a jump trying to lose our daughter. This happened at Fieldstone where we brought in this horse and her pony to show and after the first day her trainer didn't want her getting on the horse again as she didn't think he was safe. We had one of the other trainers ride him and the horse did the same thing.
We were told to get his back injected and did but the vet took an x-ray of his back and said it wasn't that bad and shouldn't cause him to behave the way he is.
Now all this time we are speaking with Jai and she's telling us all the right things. We sat down at Fieldstone and I felt very good about the conversation. She had a couple other horses coming off lease, she said they were perfect...again. She wanted to take the horse back and figure out what's wrong with him but she would make this right.
Talk is cheap and that's all we've gotten almost 2 weeks later. A lot of unanswered texts, a lot of promises, a lot more information about these 2 other "perfect" horses she had. One that now won't trot, needed back injections also and couldn't ride in a show ring by himself. And the other perfect horse that wasn't even at her barn and now has a cut on it's leg, is on antibiotics for it and needed to be seen by the vet. Look, I understand things happen, they're horses and very fragile animals. My problem lies in that Jai hasn't been straight with us since day one. I overpaid for what was supposed to be a perfect show horse for our daughter and he is anything but. We told Jai of our frustration and she got upset and is now saying that we have a contract and we have to honour it and she won't work with us to remedy this problem.
All we tried to do was help our daughter who lost her horse so she could have a successful summer learning, riding and showing. We believed in what Jai told us and not much of it has turned out to be true. I'm sure people have had good experiences with her, we have not and if by writing this I can save one person the frustration and aggravation we've had to go through, it was worth it. Please just beware and be very careful of what you sign. I believe I just paid a lot of money for a show horse that we don't feel safe putting our daughter on to show. read more