Owned and Operated by Leslie Bancroft Haynes

 

Full Service Equine Facility

       Horse Lessons, Carriage Driving, Ridden            Dressage, Training, Boarding & Sales        

Rough Terrain Farm is a full service equine facility with an 85x140' indoor arena, attached stalls with boarding for up to nineteen horses, a half-mile race track, and miles of woods trails and country roads for trail riding and carriage driving. Conveniently located five miles from I-89 in Randolph Center, Vermont, the stable is easily accessible to Montpelier, and the Upper Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont

Owner Leslie Haynes, a British Horse Society certified riding instructor, has extensive training in Natural Horsemanship (NH), dressage, and driving. She manages a diverse barn offering private lessons in basic horsemanship, long lining, pleasure and competitive carriage driving, dressage, and beginner to advanced English and Western equitation for children (ages 6 and up) and adults. As a trainer, Leslie utilizes Natural Horsemanship, round penning, and despooking techniques. She specializes in re-schooling problem horses, teaching miniature horses to drive, training horses and ponies for riding, and pleasure and competitive driving events (CDE).

Overnight lodging is available for students taking riding and carriage driving lessons, for owners with horses in training, or for those interested in a riding or driving vacation with their horse.

Rough Terrain Farm also offers quality riding and driving horses and ponies for sale, horse show coaching, arena driving trials, and clinics featuring guest instructors.

Rough Terrain Farm has been selected to house Vermont Technical College's Equine Studies Program beginning August, 2007. For more information go to VTC Equine Studies or call Dr. Dawn Carleton, Program Director at 802-728-1221.

634 Bedor Road • Randolph Center, VT • 05061 • 802-728-5945 • 802-279-5945 • E-mail