Here at Valley Mist Stables, our passion is trail riding and working with good quality, gentle well-mannered horses that already have potential. We are very careful as to what we buy to take and resale. The majority of the horses here are younger & started under saddle by a professional horse trainer. Most of our older horses come from individuals out in the country or horses we personally know and have ridden with on trails; if we know the horse & have trail ridden with it before, we still take it in and try it with OUR ways of qualifying for resale. We keep each of our potential sale horses for several months, and they get at least 60 consistent days of professional training and are actually being ridden in real rugged trails. We do not work in a round pen. We take our horses out to the wide open world, where they will encounter everything a horse needs to see! We take our horses on actual trail rides, testing them in all kinds of different situations, like how they handle tight dangerous spots in trails like between a downed tree next to a river. We try our horses about any way you can think of with a horse making sure to be absolutely safe & sane, and trail-ready…busy traffic, ATVs, bicyclists, hikers, wild animals(Deer darting out, Turkeys flying up), crossing water, bridges, fallen logs, farm equipment…etc. We also like to make sure our horses can handle being ridden on roads. We leave our home & ride the country roads around here, where the horses will encounter busy traffic(semis, buses, motorcycles), ATVs, several dogs running out barking under their feet, other livestock(cows, donkeys, goats & loose horses running out beside them) As well as the scary yard ornaments, blow up holiday decorations. We also make sure they can ride well with other horses. They do not mind being in the back of the group, middle, or leading the line & won’t get excited stopping to wait behind or in front by themselves. We also spend time riding our horses in trails all by themselves, making sure they handle exactly the same as with a friend along! We can promise if a horse has a MAJOR problem considering bucking, rearing up, kicking, biting, running away, or cold-backed, it will NEVER be for resale as well as barn weavers, cribbers, or barn/buddy sour horses!!!
I am not going to tell you our horses are 100% bombproof and won’t do the first thing wrong they are LIVING ANIMALS, but I can say they have made it through OUR qualifications & got approved. Most of our seasoned older trail horses are sold to beginners, older people, or people that have never ridden a horse before!
We offer any potential buyer to try before they buy & what we mean by this is a group of us saddle up at our farm & directly go riding in trails (The trails surrounding us are for intermediate trail riders, Kentucky trails are somewhat rough). We want our customers to be 100% Satisfied before leaving with their new trail buddy & we look forward to them becoming repeat customers!!
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We are available to show our horses by appointment only Monday – Saturday.
If you have any questions or concerns, please give Lloyd a CALL
He is the Owner and Training at Valley Mist Stables, and he is also the rider you see in all of our horse videos!
You can also send us an email: at [email protected]
But the best method of reaching us is by calling and talking to Lloyd personally!
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Are you thinking about making one of our horses your forever trail buddy?
* If you want more pictures or videos of our horses showing something you didn’t see in them, please feel free to ask anything & we will try our best to get it for you!
* We encourage you to personally come out and trail ride our horses; that way, you can get the true feel and will be satisfied before you take the horse home!
* We are 100% honest & our horses are free of all drugs ALWAYS; that means in the sales video you watch when you come to try the horse etc. We don’t mind if you request to have a drug test performed on our horses!
Our horses are also checked out by our veterinarian for the following (NO EXTRA FEE for the buyer; on us)
Negative Coggins with a health certificate(shipping purposes only show horse’s new address, temperature & Coggins Test results, Current with Vaccines(5-way +West Nile this includes Tetanus, Rabies,& Strangles)
Our Equine Dentist has checked each horse and performed any procedure needing to be done & Trail horses will have four new shoes with traction unless the new owner wants the shoes removed.
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We Only Accept Bankwire/ Cash/ Cleared Check for Full Payment!
Within the Following Business Day of the Auction Ending, Full Payment will be sent.
(bank wire is the safest/fasted for Full Payment).
