Visit with Mallory, Marcelo, Riley and Bella

We docked our boat for two weeks, rented a car and spent a week with our Daughter Mallory, Marcelo and the granddogs.

Mallory is an instructor at Legacy Saddlebreds in Winston Salem.  She love her job.  Everyone works as a team and the business is run very well, so things go smoothly.  I have been in a lot of barns in my life and nothing compares to this amazing barn.

Entrance.
There is a lot going on at this place, but very organized.
This barn is dedicated strictly to the lesson program. They have a huge program.
This is the training barn for the horses in training.
First impressions. This is the desk at the entrance of the lesson barn.
Viewing area for the lesson arena. The instructors wear a microphone so the parents can hear what is being said.
In the viewing area they have a TV that shows all about the barn fun pictures and information. This is the screen introducing Mallory to the new clients. Note the smaller screen off to the side. It is multiple close circuits view of the barn. Kids have a way of wanting to hang out in the barns because they love it. Parents can find their hang out on the screen. Pretty cool!
This cute miniature feeding trough offers peppermints to the kids to give to their horse after their lesson.
Mallory working with a brand new rider.
Check out these chairs they are saddles. They are also designed to tip forward so they can be sat on like a saddle when the tailor comes to do measurements for suits. Genious!

Lots of areas to hang out at be comfortable.
Outdoor round-pen and arena.
They have their own little shop on the grounds so you can get yourself outfitted with riding gear right there.
Porch of the shop. Love the chairs.
Hall of Champions in the Show barn lounge.
Everything is neat and clean
State of the art feeders. On the outside it says how much hay and grain to give. They flip the feeder out, fill it, and flip it into the stall. Another genius idea.
This is the huge indoor lesson arena
Lots of tack is needed for all the lesson horses.
That’s a few dollars worth of saddles right there.
Anything like leg wraps or saddle pads that goes on a horse gets washed everyday to avoid transferring fungus or other skin ailments.
Picasso is famous. He was the horse that was in the American Girl Doll Movie a couple years ago.
They had a horse show while we were there. There were saddles all over the place. It was a huge show for it being just their own clients. Impressive.
All the instructors are in the round pen with the tiny tots ready to go into the show ring.
Here’s Mallory with one of her tiny tots in the show ring.
After the show they had a Kentucky Derby party for everyone. This gigantic screen was brought in and mounted in the barn. They had tables, food and drink. they know how to treat their clients.
Dessert was”Run for the Roses” cupcakes of course.
Stick horse races for the kids. They had a blast.
Riley is on the left and Bella on the right. Happy dogs to go to the dog park.
At the dog park all the dogs seem to get on the tables. Here’s Mallory dodging Riley as Scott threw the tennis ball.
Bella is a goof. Her ears turned inside out while running, but she never shook her head to right them. She just ran around like this.
The aftermath of the dog park.
Mallory and Marcelo’s home. It is right across the street from the farm. It has a nice fenced in backyard for the girls to run and play

Will post the rest of the week in another post. Had a wonderful time. Sure glad to see them all again.

Enjoy your day.

Karen and Scott

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