Growing up with horses

Barn owner and operator Barb Tracy has over 20 years of experience with horses and the business of teaching/training.  She started riding at the age of eight and throughout grade school, high school and into college trained with an Olympic alternate in her hometown of Kankakee, Illinois. While in high school Barb began teaching riding lessons under her trainer. After high school, Barb attended Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute, Indiana.  While there she earned a Bachelor of Equine Science degree with a minor in Business.  While at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods she showed successfully on the intercollegiate circuit and discovered her passion for teaching.

Experience as an instructor

After college Barb has been a full time riding instructor and barn manager when she assumed operations at a hunter-jumper barn in Connecticut. While in Connecticut she worked closely with the resident Grand Prix rider. Her students were successful in the show ring, earning Barb several trainer awards, and many of her students went on to train and ride successfully on the A circuit. She also ran several summer camps and many small barn shows. The program was very successful, and grew to over 70 students. Barb also had several student instructors working under her to help keep up with the demand.

Closer to home - The move to Columbus

Barb and her husband both grew up in the Midwest and missed being closer to home and being able to visit family.  In 2006 Carl got a better job in central Ohio and after the move and settling in Barb began building her own program in London, Ohio. While she loved the program and her students in Connecticut, Ohio afforded her the chance to start her own program where she hoped for a quieter, more intimate setting.  Since Barb and her Husband both grew up in the Midwest, they were both very happy to move back with Tar (Barb's horse from college), their three cats and many fish and begin the process of building up the program and aquiring more horses, dogs and barn cats.