Prophet's Thumb Ranch
Established 1998.
In our years in the horse business, we've managed high-dollar operations that looked like the Ultimate Stables, but featured poor turnout and bad ventilation. We've discovered what it's like to be "city-locked" with no place to ride. We've had to "chase" foolish, non-equestrian trespassers out of the horse pastures and worry about such people getting themselves hurt or accidentally hurting the horses. We've dealt with poorly thought-out farm and stable layouts that make everyday horse handling a huge chore, thus encouraging bad habits even among good horsemen. And we've certainly worked with some big-money, fancy-bloodline horses that would be priced by the pound in any sane world.
So, when we finally got the chance to start from scratch and do it our way, we made sure to avoid all the pitfalls with which we have become so intimately familiar. We found land that was bounded in such a way that the equestrian facilities would be completely isolated from public view, thus preventing passers-by from "messing" with the animals. Not that this would be likely anyway, since Prophet's Thumb is in an area populated primarily with farmers who should know better.
Not intended to be a "show barn", the Prophet's Thumb facilities include comfortable, fully-ventilated stalls, many large, versatile paddocks, a central barnyard to allow direct access into any paddock or pasture without going through another, fences designed for durability and visibility combined with safety, on-property wooded training trails, a wide creek to play in, and the appliances to maintain security and normal care even through extended blackouts and weather disasters. And we live right in the middle of it all, in a house ten paces from the stables, with a view of all the paddocks and pasture through various windows.
On the down side, the place isn't exactly "minivan friendly".
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