Evergreen Stables

10/26/2025

10/21/2025

10/20/2025

Brought to you by The Plaidcast Showing horses in the United States has become synonymous with high costs: multi-week circuits, mandatory stalls, and endless fees that push participation out of reach for many riders. Trainer David Reichert thinks it doesn’t have to be this way. At the United Dress...

10/17/2025

Some totally informal research, not backed up by any absolute evidence, has come up with some ideas about what it ACTUALLY COSTS to keep one horse for one year, whether it’s a horse in work or a complete pasture ornament.

I started by trying to figure out actual costs, hay, grain, board, vet care, foot care, dental care, labor, the most basic basics, and most of those I asked said that they felt that ten dollars a day was about rock bottom minimum in most places, which comes to $3, 650, a year.

So, going up by 5 dollars a day---
$15=$5,475 a year,
$20=$7,300 a year
$25=$9,125 a year
$30=$10,950 a year

And so on, up and up if the horse is boarded at a suburban barn, and so forth.

What triggered this was reading some of the comments about what a 4 year old should sell for, and what it probably took to get the c**t to the fall of its 3 year old year. And how many felt that ten thousand would be "too high."

So, one year while the mare is in foal, minimum, $3, 650. Then 3 years of the c**t’s expenses, minimum, comes to another $10,680. Then add the mare’s in foal year, and rock bottom minimum it has cost the breeder $14,330 to get the foal to this place.

That doesn’t include any extras like stud fee, handling, training, just the most basic of basics. So if the c**t got sold for, say $20,000 the owner is probably breaking even---MAYBE---For any hope of profit on investment, a price in the high twenties MIGHT deliver some profit, and that, right there, are some HARD REALITIES about USA horse breeding.

10/10/2025

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10/08/2025

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I will never be able to describe the power of time spent cleaning stalls.

During this time I have made some of the biggest decisions in my life. I have silently thought my way, step by step, through some of the biggest disasters of my life. I have ugly cried my way through heartbreak all while cleaning stalls. I’ve thrown bags of sawdust in range as I thought about all of the sh*tty things going on in my life. Each stall has oddly given me a place of comfort as I stood, fork in hand, feeling empty during the times I’ve felt so alone. It has taught me to appreciate the serenity of the quiet. Realizing the ones in my life I can count on and the numerous fake people who are only present when convenient for themselves. I’ve enjoyed a free gym membership, as I’ve sculpted my back and shoulders into “he man”, just sifting away. I’ve stumbled my way, dry heaving, with sunglasses ....cleaning stalls through morning sickness, because god forbid my best friend be forced to stand in a dirty stall. Today I spend my morning cleaning stalls and processing my life. I’m mentally making life changing decisions, as I write this post, knowing that whatever I decide, it will be the right one, as it was made in a stall.

I understand that there are those who think us horse people should get “real” jobs. And that all we do is spend our days “playing” around. I’m genuinely sorry that you have never been exposed to a lifestyle that teaches you discipline, how to love unconditionally, put something other then yourself first, bust your ass for the things you want and need, kept humble by a 1200 lb animal, the real meaning of “hard work”, early mornings and late nights spent caring for something other than YOU. Those are things a “real job” will never give you.

Some of you haven’t cleaned stalls .....and it shows.

- Aubrey Burwell

10/06/2025

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Each kid who enters the show ring holds a mix of excitement, nerves and hope. But ribbons aren’t always blue, and disappointment is inevitable. Still, every stumble, every moment of frustration is exactly what makes—or breaks—kids. In that ring, setbacks aren’t failures; they’re chances. E...

10/02/2025

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Raising my daughters around horses has shown me that horse-life is equal parts joy and heartbreak. They’ve grown up in dusty barns and sun-drenched rings, learning, falling, and climbing back on again.  These lessons are sometimes hard, sometimes beautiful, but always lasting. Watching them walk ...