Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Help with mileage for a newbie :)....

In a message dated 7/31/02 5:54:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> If you are looking into an equestrian community be sure to do a lot of investigation - other than listen to the real estate agent


This is very good advice. We lived in a gate guarded equestrian community for about 25 years. When we moved in with our young family there were only about 6 or 7 residents and we had the most wonderful time. We had a one acre under cover equestrian center with 60 stalls. The famous Mac McHugh trained his western horses there and we had a hunter-jumper trainer and later a dressage trainer. It was heaven. We even sponsored some horse shows and had a Sheila Varian clinic there. Then the houses started being built by wealthy people who could influence the Home Owners Assoc. and before long the easements were voted out and everyone fenced them in. Before long, the trainers were forced out of the barn. No more clinics because the snobs who lived there decided they didn't want "strangers" coming through the gates. One day my neighbor was chased home by a security guard who told her that he received a complaint from someone up the street that her horse had pooped in the street in front of their house. He was told to get her back to cle
an it up. HA! That was going to be a cold day in you know where. Of course she did not clean it up. It wasn't in their yard for goodness sake. The Association even talked of having the homeowners put shovels by their driveways so that riders would dismount and clean if their horse pooped. That never passed, thank goodness. The association was reminded that this was supposed to be a horse community... even the logo of the Association had a horse and rider. So they changed the logo to a tree. They closed the arena and I think are going to turn it into a huge club house or something like that. We moved and never again will we get into that type of community.

Bonnie
So. Calif.