This review will only contain facts I have collected after boarding at Gala Stud Ranch for a year.
Owner Greg Anderson is too cheap to have manure removed from property..... he layers the pastures with them. See photos. When we first arrived we educated him that this is inappropriate and he stopped this practice, he resumed this practice before we left.
Does not pick the urine soaked shavings out of the stalls. The person that is hired to do the stalls picks the poop out on his hands and knees and does not take the urine out....the stalls are horrific.
Does not add shavings to the stall but once a week....approximately a half of bag when he does.
Turns out the horses on a golf cart while they jog behind on black top. Very dangerous! Doesn't want to waste time walking the horses even though it is very unsafe.
Does not want boarders talking with one another because in his mind we are plotting something against him.
When NFR came to town in December he put up temporary stalls on cement and laid some sand on the cement and felt these were appropriate stalls. All NFR boarders were horrified and wouldn't allow their horses to be placed in those stalls.
Prior to the NFR arriving we had paid Greg for board of the 6 temporary stalls he put in on the cement to keep them empty so we would not have them in the barn we were boarded in. Greg took the money and then put horses in those stalls and would not refund our money.
All NFR boarders that spoke to us complained to us regarding their stay here.
We put in our 30 day notice to change barns and the owner Greg became very upset. We had 24 hour access to our horses the entire year but after we put in our notice Greg lost it. We had gate openers that provided us with access to the property but when we came in the evening as we did every evening, Greg had padlocked all the gates so the openers could not work, and new signs were placed on the gates that day; see photo. The police were called and a complaint was filed against him. The police arranged it so we could call Greg in the morning to make an appointment to see our horses. We were successful in immediately removing our horses from a dangerous situation that next morning. Greg used our babies as prisoners so he could get us off the property when he wanted us to leave.
There was no return of our security deposit, which we should have received in full and we should have received weeks of board for 2 horses refunded since we had to leave early due to his inappropriate behavior.
There was no return of deposit of gate openers.
Greg will state he is the most honest person you will meet, I know now that is a lie and I should have been weary of anyone that continually boasts about it and trying to convince you. Greg lies, because what he agrees to when you are face to face is not what he honors. Greg took money from us and lied about what he was doing with the stalls. Greg did not refund the board we paid when he forced us out of the property nor did he refund the money from the gate openers. Greg is an actor, when he drives you around and shows you the property and tells you what a wonderful man he is, that is one thing he is good at and that is acting.
If you are wondering why we stayed a year? We did everything ourselves while we boarded here. We turned our own horses out, brought them back in. Cleaned our own stalls, bought our own shavings, and bedded them appropriately. We washed our own buckets and fed them too. We even paid electricity bills for the extra fans we used in the summer. We paid to have everything done, but took care of everything ourselves....that is why it was tolerable. read more