Mountain Valley Equestrian Center

Mountain Valley Equestrian Center A full service boarding facility located in Southbury CT, providing quality care, training and ridin A relaxed welcoming environment for all disciplines.

A full service boarding facility located in Southbury CT, providing quality care, training and riding instruction. Specializing in eventing and off the track thoroughbreds. The property has a large indoor ring directly attached to the barn, two large hunt fields with full courses, a dressage ring and a sand schooling ring. Access to acres and acres of vast trail riding and conditioning areas. MVEC has active show teams throughout the area.

Cassio wears winter well ❄️❄️❄️
02/10/2025

Cassio wears winter well ❄️❄️❄️

Happy Snow day ❄️ the horses are having a marvelous time making snow angels
02/09/2025

Happy Snow day ❄️ the horses are having a marvelous time making snow angels

Happy 11th Birthday to the long legged giraffe named Otto, the quirkiest, weirdest horse I have ever come across. Happy ...
02/05/2025

Happy 11th Birthday to the long legged giraffe named Otto, the quirkiest, weirdest horse I have ever come across. Happy Birthday to the horse that leaves countless trainers scratching their heads over his “unique” style. Happy Birthday to the horse that has tested my patience, resolve and made me abundantly more creative in my problem solving skills. And most importantly, Happy Birthday to one of the most trustworthy horses I have met, the one I feel comfortable putting anyone on and the one who is always down for a new adventure. Happy 11th Birthday Otto.

Normally we call it “Mare Monday” but today it happened on a Tuesday 😂…. Miss Addison and Emmy getting some tune up ride...
02/04/2025

Normally we call it “Mare Monday” but today it happened on a Tuesday 😂…. Miss Addison and Emmy getting some tune up rides with Lexi

Steph captured the two chestnut “bookends” today in this great photo. Moose and Charlie tend to be attached at the hip. ...
02/02/2025

Steph captured the two chestnut “bookends” today in this great photo. Moose and Charlie tend to be attached at the hip. They are bit of an unlikely pair but old man Charlie keeps Moose in line and Moose provides Charlie with a some emotional security. There’s more than a 20 year age gap between them, but they are the best of friends

This photo came up in my Facebook memories this morning and I can remember the day clearly, I had set up a Prelim course...
02/01/2025

This photo came up in my Facebook memories this morning and I can remember the day clearly, I had set up a Prelim course in the XC field and Airborne said it wasn’t nearly big enough…. So I bumped up the roll top to 5’. Spoiler alert… he said it still wasn’t big enough and cleared it with ease 😂😂😂

Naoise looking tall, dark and handsome
02/01/2025

Naoise looking tall, dark and handsome

She’s here! The newest addition to the MVEC family, Bailey Marie Cooper ♥️❤️💕
01/27/2025

She’s here! The newest addition to the MVEC family, Bailey Marie Cooper ♥️❤️💕

A little Oreo update. Oreo has fully embraced his new life and has slowly been coming out of his shell. He initially wou...
01/24/2025

A little Oreo update. Oreo has fully embraced his new life and has slowly been coming out of his shell. He initially would only sleep in the dog bed that came with him, and wouldn’t even venture from the main room of the house. Now he has become an official bed stealer and promptly has taken over my bed. He has also taken over the donkey routine for Bear, and is adamant that he must go out to help with the morning routine each day. Although I don’t trust him to stay close off leash on these trips yet, he has learned to be respectful of the mini donks as he helps out. He has become much fitter and leaner now that he’s got his daily patrols and donkey duty to do. He still doesn’t really understand playing with toys, but certainly loves treats. It has been heartbreaking losing Bear but I am thankful to have been able to provide Oreo with a soft landing.

The horses were all very happy to have a late turnout today. Although it was still cold, the sun was strong and they wer...
01/22/2025

The horses were all very happy to have a late turnout today. Although it was still cold, the sun was strong and they were excited to be out in the snow ❄️☀️❄️☀️

Mary, Myla and Devrey enjoying their Monday off before the cold hit
01/21/2025

Mary, Myla and Devrey enjoying their Monday off before the cold hit

Eclipse is getting ready for the cold blast next week 🥶🥶🥶
01/17/2025

Eclipse is getting ready for the cold blast next week 🥶🥶🥶

It’s almost hard to tell how big these two boys are when they stand next to each other 😂. Ali on Naoise and Lexi on Moos...
01/12/2025

It’s almost hard to tell how big these two boys are when they stand next to each other 😂. Ali on Naoise and Lexi on Moose this afternoon

Morning sunrise
01/10/2025

Morning sunrise

Just a frosted Otto
01/08/2025

Just a frosted Otto

Happy New Year from the Hee Haw Squad! It’s a beautiful day to start off 2025, here’s to a new year of adventures and go...
01/01/2025

Happy New Year from the Hee Haw Squad! It’s a beautiful day to start off 2025, here’s to a new year of adventures and good times! #2025

I love it when someone asks me “how did they do that?” when it comes to the predicaments horses get themselves into….. b...
12/31/2024

I love it when someone asks me “how did they do that?” when it comes to the predicaments horses get themselves into….. because it’s often just a mystery 😂. Although with the number of security cameras we have, we do catch a lot of their shenanigans on tape. However, we aren’t totally sure how Airborne pulled this one off, but Steph spotted him and “rescued” him. If i had to get guess, he was probably itching on the feeder post and managed to somehow get the blanket over the top and get caught. Horses are endless in their efforts to try and injury themselves, thankfully this act didn’t result in anything more than some embarrassment for Airborne.

We had a great time at our Winter Wonderland Mock Show! It was so much fun to have everyone out to practice their horse ...
12/29/2024

We had a great time at our Winter Wonderland Mock Show! It was so much fun to have everyone out to practice their horse show skills. Congratulations to all the horses and riders for a successful, fun day! Thanks to all our spectators for cheering the riders on and to Alexa for being our judge.

Address

323 E Flat Hill Rd
Southbury, CT
06488

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 6:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 6:30pm
Thursday 8am - 6:30pm
Friday 8am - 6:30pm
Saturday 8am - 6:30pm
Sunday 8am - 6:30pm

Telephone

+12035099060

Website

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Videos

Michelle and Chubby conquering the trees 🎄🎄🎄 #mvec #ottb #freshstartprogram #sirchubby

Cleo and Dahlia up and over the XMas tree today 🎄 I’m pretty sure Cleo has an event horse on her hands whether she wants one or not 😂😂 #mvec #ottb #xcisyourfuture

Scarlett and Airborne working hard during their lesson today and looking pretty cute doing it too. #mvec #airborne #bighorseisthebesthorse

This was a fun sight to see yesterday… it was great timing that Nate showed up to open the gate for the parade 😂 #mvec #halloweenparade

I’m not even sure how to caption this besides just saying this is typical Otto behavior 😂 #mvec #otto #ottb #oneofakind #certaintypeofspecial

Airborne was away overnight for some dental work at the clinic, he was super happy to be home and Pumba was happy to have him back. #mvec #bighorseisthebesthorse #airborne #pumba

Moose’s Olympic level water success! 🫎🫎🫎 #mvec #area1 #ottb #freshstartgraduate

This week’s Monday trip was out to Fitch’s Corner with Jill, Nate, Ali and Cole

Georgie was having a marvelous time going for a morning breeze 😂 #mvec #ottb #georgie

Cole and Cassio working on some XC fences yesterday…. This is definitely a new career path for Cassio but so far he seems to like it! #mvec #cassio #jumpjumpjump

This weekend Nate and I traveled to Apple Knoll Horse Trials with Sonny and Moose and hey guess what? It rained 😂. Another wet and rainy day which created some challenging conditions but overall the horses handled it well. Congratulations to Nate and Sonny who were in 5th place in a large competitive BN division after dressage. A double clear round for Stadium and XC had them finish in 4th place overall. The pair looked absolutely stellar from beginning to end of the day. This was the biggest show atmosphere that Moose has been exposed to so he struggled to settle which was warranted. All of the rain made for great puddle exposure though! He happily marched through them all as we traveled the grounds. I had zero expectation of him successfully entering the water complex on course, but after some extended time (which i shortened for the video clip 😂) he made the “big” step in. We finished in last but the fact we finished on a number and not a letter yesterday was a huge success. I was probably the happiest person with a score of over 100. #mvec #ottb #eventteam #freshstartprogram #waterdemons #area1

Ali and Reagan were working on lots of transitions through our trot grids this week to help work on Reagan’s rideability through a course. Although Reagan would much rather have the “go big or go home” style when it comes to jumping, Ali’s doing a great job teaching him a little bit quieter approach 😂 #mvec #reagan #eventteam #gobigorgohome #ottb

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