Cedar Brook Equestrain Ctr, Sutton, MA 1

Take a good long look here!  Thin animals more horses than stalls, many with what looks like rain rot/mange.  Very little bedding, feeds one flake of hay and shakes it out to look like more, dirty buckets, filthy slimy outside troughs with barely an inch of water, poop everywhere, parking is in the muck pile which is spread everywhere.  Indoor dark-no windows with dead footing, outdoor rocky and slopes downhill.  Tape fencing is falling apart.  Local barns say this barn is fighting foreclosure..makes sense when you drive by and see the the place is shambles.  Mud pits in the front paddocks with too many ponies living in muck and a shed they have chewed down for forage.  The trainer sticks kids on a lunge line and walks them around for a pony ride and calls it a lesson while she chats on her cell phone.  Jumping lessons are cruel as riders crash through distances and beat the poor beasts with crops when they stop for being buried at the base or hung up in the mouth from an unbalanced and uneducated rider. Sale horse prices have been reduced by 50% recently.