Dancing Horse Farm, Inc. / Horse Boarding Farm in Lebanon, Ohio

Dancing Horse Farm has over 40 acres with Nelson automatic waterers; four-board wood fenced pastures; dry-lots with all-weather footing; a 1/2 mile oval racetrack for practicing tempis, conditioning your eventer or cooling out your horse; 61 stalls, most 12x14, all recently re-floored with gravel bases and rubber mats, with corner feeders and yoke gates; a 75' x 200' indoor arena with state-of-the-art FutureTrak fiber and sand footing, T-111 slanted kick walls, eve lights and three rows of high powered metal halide lights, as well as over 125 linear feet of 6-foot-tall mirrors and a top-of-the-line surround-sound system for clinics and musical freestyle rides. A climate-controlled observation room with a powder room and coffeemaker overlooks the indoor. The indoor arena also allows ample room for participant riders and up to 100 auditors for DHF's educational events.

Other DHF amenities: clean, modern powder rooms in each barn; two wash stalls per barn with hot and cold water; two well-lit grooming stalls per barn; a 70' custom-made steel slant-wall lunging arena; two outdoor arenas with excellent, well-maintained footing, one 100' x 240' (full competition size), one 70' x 190'; staff apartments in each barn for apprentices and working students, so horses are under observation 24/7. Each barn has a tack room with one roomy, enclosed locker per stall for the boarders' tack and equipment. Each tack room is equipped with a utility sink, saddle rack and bridle hook for tack cleaning, and a washer and dryer for saddle pads and leg wraps. Each stall has a blanket bar and its own light and power outlet so it's easy to plug in heated water buckets or fans.

An expansion program is ongoing. We recently fenced in portions of the infield as pastures (the automatic waterers were already in place). Some of our plans include building a climate-controlled classroom in Barn 3 with a kitchenette; converting part of the storage area attached to Barn 3 into a small indoor arena for beginner riders; building more cross-country jumps (some are in place now).

DHF is proud to have received EQUIP grants for several of our improvements (the dry lot and small outdoor arena with all-weather footing). We strive to make the best possible use of our resources and to use green technology as much as possible. Our suggestion box is always open, so if you have ideas, please share them!

Specialties

Apprentice And Working Student Program Beginner Lessons On Own Or School Horses. Boarding Daily Individual Turnouts Daily Pasture Turn-out Dressage Education English Full Service Boarding Facility Horse Leases Available Horse Summer Day Camp for Kids Horse Training Horseback Riding Lessons Indoor Riding Arena Jumping Layovers, Stopovers Natural Horsemanship Open 7 Days a Week Outdoor Arena Overnight Stabling Pastures Private Riding Lessons Riding Clinics Round Pen Showing Program Stables Stall Boarding Warmblood Inspection Training Weekly Stays Young Horse Training Youth