Let me preface this. I’ve loved horses forever, but never gotten to own any. My hands-on knowledge is extremely limited from a barn I used to work at as the office manager (but I did help with the horses a lot when our lead groom left).

I’ve been following online barns/horse owners for a while and I’ve seen some of them discussed here, but I want to know more details, and I want to know if the others I haven’t seen discussed are good.

First up is Elements Arabians, previously known as Windsong Sabino Arabians, owned by Stephanie Wind, based in Colorado, USA. They shut down their website, elementsarabians.com, around 2015/2016, and I barely see anything about the lines she bred aside from the grandget and great-grandget. After she sold her stallion to France (he was registered in USA as Legally Intoxicating, born 2007), I think things just went downhill.

Secondly is B & L Horse Ranch, based in Kansas. They focused on AQHA and Appaloosa horses, but I haven’t seen or heard anything from or regarding them since maybe 2011/2012. One of my family members used to do business with them so I’m hoping they can’t be that bad, and that they just kinda “dropped off the map.”

I’d like to know more tea on Andrew Pearman of Pearman Ranch. I started following him in late 2022 because I saw Hubert VDM on one of my “things you may like” suggestions, and thought he was absolutely stunning. However, after watching him all this time, I’ve felt like he’s a bit cocky and not the nicest person. After reading some comments on here, it’s made it clearer to me that he’s probably just a trash person who likes pretty ponies.

Katie Van Slyke is another I’d like to know more info on. I haven’t watched her much aside from “baby Seven,” which is pretty much when I really found out who she was. I think his story is interesting, and great for the equine science world, but I feel so very bad for that colt. His quality of life has got to be awful. I’ve seen some negative comments here and there on this sub about her but never really looked into it. Spill the tea.

I follow Double Z farm online and they post cute stuff. Never seen or heard anything negative but I know everything I see is carefully reviewed before posting so I may only see the good.

Tell me other horse owners/trainers/barns/businesses that I should avoid.

I enjoy Arabians. Tell me about Shea Stables, Maroon Fire Arabians (both known very well for owning/standing Afire Bey V and IXL Noble Express ), Conway Arabians, Kiesner Training (I know them for showing Maroon Fire’s stud, Inception, as well as his sire, IXL Noble Express ), and Chase N It Farms (stood the beautiful sabino stud, Rhocky Rhoad).