We are a full service training and schooling facility
Located in Shiocton Wisconsin on State Highway 76 for easy access to your special friend. Our goal is to provide you and your horse a family type atmosphere with the amenities of a full sized boarding and training facility.
Our work ethic is based on the German Army Cavalry horse tradition. Your horse will not find a more complete and loving stable.
We also have a Western trainer on site for all your Western goals and needs. Stacie Riehl of Legacy Performance Horses will assist you and ensure your success.
Our facility:
Thirty 10x12 stalls, indoor and outdoor arena, large pastures and paddocks, daily pasture time (weather permitting).
Full service includes hay, grain, water, bedding, we also feed supplements that you provide for your horse.
We also have training -board available.
Who we are
Kerstin McNiesh is the owner and operator of McNiesh Barns and Stables and the German Cavalry Style Riding training program. She has trained and worked at the Radandt Trainingsstall GbR with dressage instructor and horse trainer Susanne Radandt.
Kerstin McNiesh was an active military style rider through her teen years, competing and training in Germany, before life took her down other paths.
She has been back in the horse industry for over 10 years, specializing in classic dressage.
Stacie Riehl is our Western trainer on site. She has been successful in training and showing horses for over 20 years.
German Cavlary Style Riding
Cavalry horses were trained and ridden in a discipline, created by the great German riding master Gustav Steinbrecht, author of the book: Das Gymnasium des Pferdes (The Gymnasium of the Horse). This became the standard in European cavalry riding and modern dressage.
Steinbrecht studied postures of both horse and rider. By changing the mouth - hand connection between the horse and rider, the horse's head is lowered resulting in better flexing of the horse's back muscles.
German Army horses began their training at the age of two where they are introduced to human handling. In the animals' third and fourth years, lunging and saddling are taught. By the age of five, the horses are finally mounted and the teamwork between rider and horse begins. Generally, these horses are ready for active military service by the age of six and are capable of a ten-year military career.
A lot of them, unless they died in the line of duty, retired with their soldiers and were active, healthy riding horses into their mid twenties, some even into their thirties.
We combine those technics with the newest knowledge about horse and rider bio mechanics
Our training program strives to fit your horse, not fit the horse into the program.