We Care 

• About people.  We want them to feel loved and improve their quality of life through more smiles, better physical fitness, a balanced mind, healthy self-esteem, and good social skills. 
• About horses. We want them to “be a horse” and enjoy a purposeful life being loved by many.

We Share

• Our passion, our horses, our place, our skills/knowledge/experience, our peaceful atmosphere and laid back, positive attitude. 

We are Inclusive

• We do not make a difference, everyone is treated with the same respect and dignity. 

We are Professional

• We have an emphasis on all aspects of safety.
• We are honest and transparent.  Lines of communication between leadership, management, staff, and customers are kept open.  
• We work timely and efficiently.
• We work as a team:  Everyone knows their own responsibilities, yet is willing to help when others need a hand.  No job is “beneath” anyone – everyone pitches in to keep things running like a well-oiled machine.
• Staff seeks to continue to improve their riding skills and education. And the business works to provide such opportunities.

We are Laidback and Positive 

• Gossip, bad language, and drama are discouraged. 
• We are grateful and do not take things for granted

Over the years we have grown, offered new services, and with this growth came name changes. When we first started our business, we were called “A Vaulting Connection, LLC” because we founded our vaulting club at the same time.  We had one horse we used for both vaulting and therapeutic riding. A Vaulting Connection, LLC was confusing for our clients with special needs because they didn’t vault.  A couple of years later, we applied for nonprofit status and changed the name to Therapeutic Horse Connection to better represent the nonprofit’s core mission. While this was occurring, we had some highly competitive vaulters competing at national level, and wanted to ensure the judges knew they weren’t therapeutic competitors. So neither Therapeutic Horse Connection nor A Vaulting Connection really worked for us as a name.

At that time, I did not have my own stable, and so we chose Karin’s Horse Connection for our business and left Therapeutic Horse Connection/A Vaulting Connection for our nonprofit.

In 2012 we bought our property, a farm with the land. We built pastures, stalls, an indoor arena, and live here now with 25 horses. We called it Legacy Stables. The next logical step was to change the name for the business to Legacy Stables LLC. This freed up the name Karin’s Horse Connection, which we then used as DBA for Therapeutic Horse Connection. This way, our special needs clients, as well as our competing vaulters, can feel good to be under the same roof.

Our focus is to offer riders a calm, relaxing environment in which to enjoy time with horses. Life is stressful enough, time at the barn should not be. Click on a photo to see more.