...Yes, the stalls at Cherry Creek are truly enormous, not what passes for "enormous stalls" in much of Washington state. [reference: see "Horse Idiots" below.] About Rody, above: Barn name: "Rody" [previous barn name was "Rory" - dumb name, huh, for a TB like this?] Campaigned under the competition name: "Ain't She Sweet?" US Jockey Club reg: WANNABEAJUMPER (unraced) Topline: by Grand Passage, by Son of a Buck, by Buckpasser, by Tom Fool out of BUSANDA, by War Admiral, by Man O War. Steve, Rody may very well be the best eventing horse in Washington State (highly likely in my opinion, based upon: (a) her level of training & who performed the training, (b) her focus & temperament, (c) her athletic abilities, (d) her breeding and pedigree, (e) and her complete and absolute ability to focus her attention ENTIRELY upon the rider ... [... more.] Unfortunately, after being shuttled between a couple of Washington's resident "riding experts" for three years, Rody ended up ... » in TINY stalls: being boarded at an "Equestrian Centre" (that is, an equine torture pallace) with "enormous 10 foot by 10 foot stalls." » with highly RESTRICTED exercise: being turned out "regularly" for exercise consisting of a few hours a week, on a few days per week ... » in bad turnouts : with incorrectly designed + inadequately sized and shaped turnout areas » ... being fed "cow feed" and "Cow Hay" ... Granted, dense populations of equines on small acreages ... (continued under "idiots" below) » with bad horseshoing and hoof-trimming: ... [... more.] ... Steve, and they wondered why she was becoming unsound, and would not perform at the level which they thought she should be performing (of course, it was the horse's fault, not the rider's fault that the rider was not performing as expected!). Can you believe it? The above resulted in this magnificent, highly trained (Level IV dressage + Grand Prix Jumping) mare becoming (temporarily) lame and unsound. [... more? continued here >>]