My daughter has been at Gardnertown farm for 8 years and has never been made to feel like she is…read moreinept or belittled by anyone there. Gardnertown is a family owned establishment and they treat their clients like family. My child has learned how to respect horses and their boundaries and how to truly take care of them.

I have been coming here to Gardnertown Farms for the past 4 years I got to say it was the best…read morething I did, the Trainers and the School horses are fabulous they taught me so much, now I am showing its is so much fun and your trainers support you so much. The facility is beautiful 2 indoor rings 2 outdoor rings stalls are beautiful they have a beautiful big grooming stall and wash stall with hot water I ride all year round. The horses are taken well care of the owners are so nice they will bend over backwards to accommodate you and they have camp for the kids in the summer and the kids love it I love coming in to the facility and seeing all the kids with smiles on there face while they are riding .

Absolutely the best place for kids and even adults to learn how to ride a horse. They also have…read moresummer camp, and do horse boarding and many other things.. We moved to the area from NYC and my daughter had always wanted to learn how to ride a horse, she hopes that one of these days she can be in a horse show. I mentioned this because she started training mid May 2022 and we are in August 2022 and she has built so much confidence and her love for horses have grown! Helaina, the owner, is the best trainer in NY PERIOD! She is kind and has lots of patience to work with kids. My daughter always feels welcome and is always looking forward for her next class. I am so glad we found this place! If you are looking for an equestrian center, this is your place!

My daughter Olivia went to meadow creek farms with her Girl Scouts troop yesterday. They learned…read moreabout saddles and saddle pads and groomed a pony name fudge. It was an incredible experience for her and the other girls! She got to ride a pony name Max and loved it ! Now she is asking for lessons there.

12/29/2018 After trying other options in the Hudson Valley,…read moreI'm pleased to have landed at Southlands. My only regret is that I didn't move here several years earlier. The staff is consistently professional, with my horse's welfare their first priority. I am actually comfortable leaving on vacation, knowing they will keep a close eye on him even if I'm not there every day. I also get high-quality instruction as my horse and I advance through the dressage levels. Once you get past the basic levels of dressage, it's difficult to find quality instruction outside of a full-training barn. But, I own a horse for me to ride, not for some trainer to ride. I am not interested in a "leave your horse and your checkbook" situation. At Southlands, Allison King is doing a wonderful job of helping my horse and I work toward FEI, while I ride and train him myself. Clinicians and shows right on the farm add to the learning and the fun. The barn is kept clean, tidy and safe. Footing in all three rings is excellent and well maintained. I can do a five mile trail ride right on the property. And huge bonus--the heated indoor arena makes NY winters much more bearable.

great environment- absolutely perfect for beginners or relearning how to ride. always a blast and…read moresuper people.

Don't be put off by a couple of grumpy Groupon users, this place is a gem. I've always gotten…read moreprompt responses from the owner, and had nothing but great experiences there. This place is a rare combination...being both a relaxed barn and a place where the safety of people and animals is top priority. The owners are young (in their 30's), committed, positive and professional. I've been on and off riding for 45 years, so I've seen and been involved in many different equestrian situations. At Cimarron I've taken a lesson, been on a trail ride, with a friend, and ultimately decided to lease one of their horses. Places like this are rare, if you've been meaning to get back to riding, go do it.

My boyfriend and I went for a trail ride with Justin the other day, and had a wonderful experience!…read moreWe have both been riding before, but by no means are intermediate riders. Justin made us feel comfortable on our horses, and with the trail. He also was friendly, funny, and easy to talk to which made the 1 hour ride even more enjoyable! Leigh organized our ride, and was extremely helpful and pleasant. So all in all we had an excellent experience start to finish! We highly recommend Cimarron! Thanks again Justin and Leigh!

My boyfriend and I called Ashoka Riding Club this morning to see if there were any available…read moreappointments to go horseback riding today, and we're promptly answered by Elene on the phone. She is a very sweet woman and asked what time would work best for us and we shortly landed on a time that worked for us both. Keep in mind, this place is Elene and Umberto's residence, and they are clearly hosting visitors because they enjoy what they do and sharing it with others. We arrived and called Elene and were met promptly by Umberto who took us to their stable to sign standard waivers and saddle up our horses for us, as well as giving us helmets to wear. My boyfriend and I were assigned Lila and Peggy to ride (both beautiful horses and unlike other reviewers wrote on here, the horses were definitely not skinny and underfed). Umberto helped us onto the horses one by one and then Elene instructed us how to hold the reigns and gave us the rundown on how riding and directing a horse actually works, which I found very helpful. Elene was stern at first with her instructions as she should be when educating someone how to properly ride an animal that could easily hurt you with its weight accidentally if handled incorrectly. After we understood the logistics we started along the BEAUTIFUL snowy path with Umberto and Elene alongside us on foot giving us more encouraging instructions along the way while also making very pleasant and interesting conversation. To be clear, they walked alongside us but were not holding onto and leading the horses as other reviews have said. Both Elene and Umberto were very sweet, interesting people who very clearly love what they do and love their horses dearly (after all, they moved to this location in order to be able to live somewhere where they were able to have their horses on site). I would highly recommend coming here for a ride if you're in the area, we enjoyed ourselves greatly and will definitely be returning again perhaps for a summertime ride this time!

I don't even know where to start with this review. Let's…read moreput it this way, the second u get there you start to think you may be on Texas chainsaw massacre. Everything is rusty and old and outdated. The owners are super weird. The horses are under fed and under weight. The whole trail consisted of them walking our horses. Not quite sure why I paid $50 for them to walk the horses. I decided to leave my sunglasses behind and tag my group on Facebook with our location in case we all Got killed cuz that's just the vibe we got from the start. Anyways let's fast forward to an awkward 25 min later where we were in the middle of the trail and we see bears. Yes bears. 3 black bears to be exact!! Umberto thinks it's smart to keep going on the trail and I said NO!!! Turn us around or I'm getting off. Also, he's hard of hearing so basically he screams for everything. So he turns around after we make him aware of the bears and screams go a wife "honey there's bears" now the lovely black bear family is looking at us 70 feet away. My horse is starting to get scared and start acting weird to the point I almost fell off. Thankfully his wife is smarter and told him in French to turn the horses around after he kept wanting to keep going on the trail. Thankfully all of us left unharmed. On the way back to the barn, Umberto point to a pile of rocks and tells me his first horse died there. I asked him how and he told me he shot him cuz he was sick. Not quite something I wanted to know. Lie to me next time please. I don't recommend this place. They give you no instruction on how to handle the horse or how to ride. And you don't really get a real experience out of it and it's super scary. Don't waste ur time, safety and money.

Great Barn horses have tons of turn out…read more barn is super clean there are so many places to hack open grass fields huge outdoor and indoor

Great barn to learn to ride at! Instructors and horses for all levels. Horses are well taken care…read moreof and the facility is beautiful and well maintained. Loved my time here.

I'm a regular rider and was looking for a new place to trail ride with my less-horsey friends. I…read morefound this place online and I'm glad I did. Kelly and her staff are great! The trail horses we rode out on we're mostly retired cow horses who were very well-broke and very responsive to riding aids--almost to a fault. Hehe. We rode in western tack and split reins. The trail is very wooded and its a lot of hills and there is a small stream to cross. Kelly was so pleasant, professional, and accommodating! I asked if we could go longer than an hour (as we were driving quite a way and wanted to make it worth our while) so she planned out out day with her. We went out for an hour, she sent us into town to grab some lunch, and then we rode back out a different way. They even jump-started my car battery when it wouldn't turn on. Great people, great horses, great ride.

This place was so much fun! My friends and I went for a girls trip and it was wonderful. Everyone…read morewas super friendly and very knowledgeable when it came to horses. I would definitely go there again.

Cori is incredibly knowledgeable, patient, clear, and enthusiastic in her instruction which…read moreinspires me as a beginner. I want to learn everything about riding and horses and Cori's thorough and encouraging teaching style, which builds upon fundamentals, provides me with increasing experiential knowledge and confidence after every lesson. I honestly never thought of competing but now working with Cori I'm considering it. She is highly attuned to her beautifully kept horses and to me as the rider as well. I always feel safe and attended to as her student. She's also a lot of fun! Highly highly recommended.