The Goose Downs Facility

The Goose Downs facility lies at the end of a one half mile private road and occupies its own private valley, which promotes security and ensures aesthetics.

Goose Downs is designed with the utmost care to enhance the effectiveness of its training and teaching program.

Two Territorial-style courtyard barns provide maximum horse care with minimum labor. Competitive horses occupy spacious stalls amply serviced by tack rooms and wash stalls.

Heat and smoke sensitive devices are tied into a central alarm system throughout the barns and the manager's house.

The manger resides on the premises in a Territorial-style home adjacent to the student dorm. Both buildings overlook the barn.

Teaching and Training Facilities: Our facilities are extensive and designed for maximum safety and efficiency. We feature two full size dressage arenas with sand footing. Each arena has arc lights for riding at night. Our jump arena is a spacious one-acre arena with exceptional footing. The physical plant has a covered arena, an enclosed outdoor area for teaching beginning students and riding young horses, and a one-mile galloping track over varied terrain for conditioning.

But our most exciting feature is our cross-country. Schooling fences include water, ditches, banks and drops.There are 6 courses, Pre-Competition to Intermediate, originally the courses were designed by Captain Mark Phillips and built by Pete Costello. They are now being
designed by Tom Angle with building help from Gunther Hardt and James Atkinson.

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