Thundering Hooves Stables in Carnation

Hey all you friendly, curious, adventurous, horse lovin people! Did you know Carnation has a great Equestrian facility in Lake Joy Estates?  The drive to this property is 10 – 15 minutes from downtown Carnation or Duvall and requires one to cruise part way around Lake Joy before detouring from the main path.  I can’t help but wonder if perhaps the residents of this area take the breathtaking lake and mountain views for granted when seeing them each day, but for me personally, it put me in a tranquil mood and set me up for some great expectations.

Regarding expectations, Nancy Pearson’s “Thundering Hooves Stables” does  deliver!  It is situated on a 20 acre piece of property surrounded by miles and miles of lush landscape. Moss Lake is nearby with trails surrounding it as well as trails leading to the pipeline, which literally  enable a rider to go on for days if they were to so choose. Not only does Nancy’s place make it possible so people won’t have to trailer out to enjoy great trail riding, she has a state of the art facility which includes one covered indoor arena (120 x 60) as well as an outdoor arena (160 x 80) with nice footing.  So regardless of whether a horse lovers interests are varied, or the focus is on one particular discipline, riders are not really limited here at Thundering Hooves .                                                                             

Nancy and her daughter Nicole are the horse crazy members of the family. They are active participants in 4H and love to engage in gaming and showing competitions. They have six horses, three of which are lesson horses.  Nancy offers lessons on these or on ones own horse. Her fee is reasonable at $35 for an hour long lesson.  Nancy provides instruction in Natural Horsemanship, Western Gaming, Western Pleasure, Western Equitation and Beginning English Riding.

Not only is  Thundering Hooves a great place to board your horse, there is currently a vacancy and if demand increased, she has plenty of room and may consider adding on more  stalls.  Board runs $500/month and this includes feed (grain and orchard grass or alfalfa hay),  stalls and paddocks cleaned (twice daily), routine worming, and blanketing.  Each stall is open and has a turnout run so horses here do not remain confined to their stall when not being played with by their owners. Thundering Hooves has a huge tack room, a bathroom (instead of a sani-can or porta-potty like some places), a wash rack with cross ties having both hot and cold water, 3 different pastures for grazing turnout.  The pastures get reseeded each Spring and at the time of this blog, grass is still coming in (growing tall in places and becoming denser).  Spring and summer, horses are usually out to pasture part of the day, during their ‘leisure time.’

Nancy’s arenas are available to rent for clinics and may be available if there are those w/ horses off site who may want a place to ride during rainy months.  Arena usage haul in fees are $10 . If you’d like more information please contact Nancy by email at nancysmagic@yahoo.com. If you may be interested in finding a property like hers for yourself, well I’d love to help and would be a great Realtor to assist with that!