Standley Lake Stables

I would have to agree. I had a miscommunication with barn owner and was kicked out. I tried to explain my intent but was not given the opportunity. She was very unprofessional and rude. I loved the other boarders and the trainer was very knowledgeable.

Horrible customer service. I have been calling since Tuesday abt boarding my horses there and had questions abt their hay for sell. I’ve left messages with both phone numbers and no phone call back. Thank goodness I’m not boarding my horses there, I would never be able to get ahold of them if I needed something.

After horse camp they gave my 12 year old sister a chicken egg to bring home so that she could hatch it. We don’t have the proper equipment or knowledge to incubate an egg! How do you tell a crying 12 year old girl that we can’t do anything for this supposed living creature. That is messed up and you can’t put that on a parent.

Owner is rude, unethical and I would NOT ever go or trust this place with my horses! Owner made reservations for us then changed them last minute and had the gall to be rude to US about it all. Very unprofessional.
1÷30÷2016
I’m adding to this, as evidently the owner Kristi has just discovered how poorly her stables are rated by NUMEROUS people, and trying to call US all out as being untruthful. Sorry, you don’t get THIS many bad reviews by running a good business.
Below, Kristin who initially posted claiming my profile was fake and was yet another customer who was accusing her of poor business practice. I replied privately to her and reminded her of our exchange and she still updated that I never had a ‘reservation’ there.
I absolutely did. I spoke with Kristi regarding her horse camps for kids and she told me of her background as a school teacher as she explained about their horse camps.
I was trying to register my 6 year old daughter who adores horses and was having a really tough year, as our 11 month old baby, her little sister had just been diagnosed with cancer (leukemia) and we have been separated a lot as I was always in the hospital with her little sister getting chemotherapy. I explained all of this to Kristi and how important caring for and being around animals would be for my 6 year old. She put me down on the list for their camp.
A few days later I found out the baby would be hospitalized that week and I may have difficulties taking/​picking up my daughter so I left Kristi a message asking if another camp week was available (I gave the exact week I preferred and NEVER said I wouldn’t attend the week we were scheduled for, I just would have had to find help getting her to/​from camp) and explained my conflict.
Kristi took I upon herself to remove my daughter from camp AND gAve away her spot which she had told me 5 days earlier she was holding. She tells me she has another date open that (wasn’t even close to the date I’d asked about) and said ‘well I’ve given your daughters spot to someone else’
I’m absolutely appalled at this Kristi/​owner and her business sense as well as her sensitivity as a person. Behaving in this manner with any customer is reprehensible to me, but one who has called and explained that they have a baby with Cancer and a 6 year old sibling who is also going through hell with it all. To treat a family going through all that the way this woman did is mortifying to me.
Her callousness and u professionalism in dealing with my family is by far the rudest and most inhumane treatment I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. Based on that type of person and personality I would say from the bottom of my heart, steer clear of this stable. Not based even on how they care for horses or the cleanliness of their stables, but for the lack of ethics and professionalism you will be from them.
Oh, one last thing. Kristi, that little 6 year old whose heart you broke by giving away her camp spot after telling me it was held for her. She lost her little sister a few weeks later. She’d 26 month old baby sister died just 2 months after you broke her heart by being unprofessional and unethical as a business owner. You should be so, so proud. I hope that other kid, the one you gave her spot to without consulting me, really enjoyed that camp. I hope you’re proud of being an unprofessional and unethical business owner.

When I first checked this facility out I thought it was great, the owner was very nice and great at putting on a show like she knew what she was doing and she knew how to run a horse facility… let me remind you I have been riding and competing horses in the sport of Three Day Eventing since the age of 4 and also have a Bachelor’s Degree in Equine Business Management and I am now 30! I should have got on here first thing and read the reviews which after things started going wrong I did and all the bad reviews on this facility are very true and exactly what I experienced.
First off the owners are anything but horse people and very unprofessional. They are very under staffed and with what staff they have are not very horse savvy or experienced and would never know if there is something wrong with a horse. The owners hay business comes first, it does not matter if it is the middle of feeding time or the horses need to be tended to, the staff will run off immediately to assist in loading hay. There were many times my horses water buckets were empty on a 95 degree day and I had left notes on his stall to make sure they are filled at all times, old rancid beet pulp was dumped out on the ground in his pen with flies all over it, stall had not been cleaned all day and clumps of hay that had been sitting in his stall for several days because they had huge clumps of mold in them. Also there were times he had not been fed at all because the understaffed staff had forgotten about him and also they would just dump his new grain onto his old beet pulp from the night before without emptying or cleaning out the existing feed. Let me remind you the hay customers received the nicer hay and the boarders received the hay that was not even mediocre. They say they offer Alfalfa but most of the time the alfalfa hay was out and the horses were not even getting it. I was pretty much there every day feeding my horse because he was not being fed and dropping weight rapidly because they could not do it correctly. So much for full care board!
I was told I would receive a discount for supplying my own grain which is Triple Crown Senior which is $ 26.00 a bag at this moment and I only received $ 15.00 off my board a month… wow, big help. I was also told beet pulp would be included in his feed which in the end was no longer an option and was told it was never included in the first place. The owner did not want to hear it and started to use things against me that were included in the original contract which she would never give me a copy of. The amount of board you pay there for «Full Care» is not worth $ 475.00 a month, if worth anything.
This barn also has a «quarantine area» that is not even labeled which had a horse in it that had a possible case of VS, this quarantine area is a small pen with a tarp for shelter, the horse in there had severe sun burns all over its face as well. My leaving the facility was delayed by this incident for almost 2 weeks,
which I found out not from the owner but by the vet as I needed to have a VS test done for the new facility I was bringing him to. Apparently the facility had already been under quarantine for a week and I was unaware… it was weird though how horses were still coming and going off of the property… sounds and looks pretty fishy to me.
When I decided to leave this facility due to the severe lack of care, my horse dropping a great amount of weight and one of my family members being kicked off the property due to confronting the owner as a concerned boarder the owner turned into a greedy, immature little girl who is obviously in this business for the money only and does not care about the horses well being. I had to fight with this «little girl» for my contract which she still never gave me because «I was leaving and what was the point» quote on quote that is what was said to me and also that she was glad I was leaving. If I was the owner of a facility I would be very concerned if one of my boarders came to me with any of these issues and would have tried everything in my power to make the situation better and to keep my boarders happy and comfortable.
Let me just say if you care about your horses and they are like family to you then don’t go here, everything will seem great in the beginning and Kristy will put on a great front like she is a wonderful facility owner but eventually the true colors come out and she does not like confrontation as one girl was evicted from the property due to her horse being kicked and she did not want her horse turned out with the other horse anymore, she just wanted private turn out, Kristy’s solution was to evict her. Please do not go here as it is not the last solution in the area and is by far not even close to being a facility that offers full care board as stated. As a concerned horse owner and boarder you should absolutely and completely run in the opposite direction.

I wouldn’t keep my horse at standley lake stables if they were the last stable on the whole front range. They quoted me a price to board my horse… then they doubled that… upon my complaint they offered to reimburse half of the overage. I tried 3 separate times to collect it on principal alone. I was told it was a trivial amount and I said fine just keep it but anybody who is in business especially in the world of equine ought to work as hard as possible to keep and attract boarders. .not fight them when they were the ones who accepted the horse in the first place. It’s also a very hard drive to get out of. They will not stay in business long with the attitude the owners have… and if you board there you may just need to find another place to board… In my opinion that’s not a bad thing!

I’ve been taking lessons here since February, and just recently bought a horse and started to board her here. So far, I love this place! Everyone is incredibly friendly. So many barns have a very uptight or snotty atmosphere, but not Standley Lake.
The facilities include two outdoor arenas, an outdoor round pen, and an indoor arena. Sometimes the indoor arena can get a little crowded but it really is only a sometimes thing. It’s better in the summer when people have more arenas to choose from. There’s an obstacle course you can use to desensitize your horse to things you may encounter on a trail ride, such as large logs, bridges, or branches touching their face. I have not been unsatisfied with the cleanliness of her pen or any of the facilities so far.
I believe there’s a weekly trail ride down to the lake in the summer, although I haven’t signed up for one. There’s a board for items in your horses’ pen that you’d like to be fixed. The feed includes two flakes of grass and one flake of alfalfa twice a day. My horse has needed to put on some weight since arriving, and has a little in the week or so she’s been there so far.
Overall, I’d highly recommend this barn.