Dissapointing. The facilities are immaculate and well maintained, but it seems to mask the lack of real trainers. I would describe it as a "Barbie goes to riding school" place, which would be really nice for kiddos at the beginner levels or pony club members. I don't recommended if you are serious about improving flatwork/advanced riding/showing, this place is not guided towards the real equestrian art. The very young instructor yelled ALOT during the lesson, but never went into explaining technique or cues for the horse. Like I said, this seems to be more for any kid that wants to ride a pony, but not if you are looking to advance your career (IEF and above type). read more

Well-maintained facility at a competitive rate. There are a lot of empty stalls, though! My main complaints are that the horses spend too much time in the stall and they nickel and dime you to death...I've never taken any of their lessons because they are too expensive. Example: this past summer was very wet, so they would not put the horses in the pasture for fear they would tear up the pasture. However, they did offer to put your horse on the hot walker for $10 per day but you had to buy 10 days minimum. In addition, they insist on keeping your credit card on file to automatically charge. To push this strategy, they charged extra if you paid by check, stating that it was due to the extra costs of cashing checks....uh.... there ARE no extra fees for cashing checks but you do pay more for credit card transactions! read more

DO NOT let your child go to summer camp here!! My child came home with 1st degree burns. The camp counselors do not care about your child here. They had one adult counselor and two thirteen year old counselors for the week my two children were there. They told the girls to put on sunscreen at 12:45 and then they all went to the pool from 1-3. They never re-applied or even took sunscreen to the pool. When I emailed the owners asking how they were doing during the week, they said they were having a blast. In reality, my daughter was suffering from painful blisters from being sunburnt. They did not even call us to let us know. You do not get your own horse to take care of, in fact they didn't even have enough horses for the girls. They had to pair up and take turns which means your kid gets about 15 minutes or less on a horse in reality. The website advertises two rides a day, a sunset and sunrise ride, an outdoor movie night, camp games, daily maid surface, and Double Dave's Pizza. They clearly false advertise because the rides were minimal, sunset one didn't happen and the sunrise one was interrupted by negligent counselors who took them riding in another horses pasture. When those owners let their horse out, it spooked all the girls' horses and they had dismount and return. The kids are the maid service. The counselors made them do all the cleaning, including sweeping and mopping. They also advertise a continental breakfast, they had 2 gallons of milk and 4 loaves of bread for 13 people for the week. So basically, by Wednesday they were eating dry cheerios. When I picked them up my daughters got in the car and said #worsthorsecampever read more

I've been impressed with the operations at Saddlebrook and their facilities are the best in the area. I've done my research with other places (i recommend everyone do the same) and it's really a no-brainer. read more

Everything started out great at Saddlebrook when we first signed up for lessons. To the point that it encouraged us to buy our own horse, which we had a tremendous amount of help from Janet (who is no longer there) by guiding us on what to look for. Obviously we boarded our horse at Saddlebrook and that is when things went downhill rapidly. Long story short, we never received a boarding lease after many requests for one, and our credit card was used as a free for all. We were charged for whatever they felt a need to charge. We were basically double charged one month (even after I paid them cash as well, which I have no idea where that even went due to no explanation on where it was applied towards), and then were told "we will just apply the credit towards your lessons". Well that never happened. Instead we were charged again for the following month for boarding, charged again for a competition ( for a different rate than what was agreed on), and a fee for fans, even though the fans we had in our stall were our own personal fans. The stall that our horse was in was in poor shape, the fence in the back was falling apart to the point that the sharp wires cut our horse, so I took it upon myself (after several requests to have it fixed by them) to go to Tractor Supply and buy the materials and fixed it myself. When any of these issues were brought up to "management" we were basically told we would not be getting any refunds for being over charged and was never even given an excuse as to why they used my card as an open checkbook. I quickly canceled my credit card at the bank to stop the "bleeding" and moved my horse as fast as I possibly could. The facilities were nice, however, for what I paid them over the few months I was there, I should have received much more. There are several other boarding facilities in the area, just do your research and figure out which one suits you best. Saddlebrook could have been so much better if Management would communicate with its customers, rather than looking to charge the next credit card each month. read more

My experience with Saddle Brook is unfortunate. I checked the reviews prior to boarding and though they were not great, we went because they had a competent new barn manager. I felt that the horse care was substandard, because they did not put enough shavings in my horse's stall. It was merely a thin layer covering a plastic type flooring. I've always had rubber floors with adequate bedding, but without adequate bedding, the stall was often unsanitary. The solution was to add more shavings with an additional fee. Your horse is not turned out on the weekends but you can have weekend turn out for an extra fee. Facility is Gorgeous, Read what you sign, and understand that their feed scoops are plastic tumblers equaling 1.5 to just under 2 pounds. Never experienced a barn that had a scoop under 3 lbs. The covered arena is wonderful so long as it has not been raining. I never experienced it fully dry, but you can ride in the dry areas. They had boarders in all disciplines which was cool and good trainers, but limited jumps if that is your focus. Great wash racks, manicured lawns. Feels more like a riding academy type barn with younger riders. read more