Cornerstone Ranch News

Join us in our dedication toward better horsemanship and advocacy for all horses. Horses are without a doubt the most important farm animal! Here are recent statistics which serve as testament to this statement: The horse industry contributes $50 billion to the US economy. There are 90,000 wild horses in just 10 western US. The…

Local school’s new welding project displayed at Cornerstone Ranch Two hard-working students at Franklin County Technical School created the beautiful new wrought iron horse head decoration as part of a fundraiser to support the school shop’s Certification program. The students, Hunter Lanoue and Colby Merit, who raises and rides Morgan horses, built a total of…

1. When did you start riding at Cornerstone and did you first discover Cornerstone, as a student, trail rider, or staff inquiry? I first started riding at Cornerstone about 10 years ago, and I began as a consistent lesson student throughout middle school and some of high school. I then worked in our Wild Child…

1. When did you start riding at Cornerstone and did you first discover Cornerstone, as a student, trail rider, or staff inquiry? I came to Cornerstone for the first time for a trail ride on Columbus Day back in the fall 2020. I teach elementary school music, and we were right in the middle of…

When did you start riding at Cornerstone and did you first discover Cornerstone, as a student, trail rider, or staff inquiry?      I started riding at Cornerstone when I was 14 years old! My mom found the ranch in search of a summer activity for my little sister and I. Soon enough, a summer…

Back in the days of horse-drawn transportation, why did some people have their bells custom made incorporating different sizes of bells? MA General Laws, Chapter 89, Section 3: No person shall travel on a way with a sleigh or sled drawn by a horse, unless there are at least three bells attached to some part…

Take the Cornerstone Ranch Horse Quiz to test your knowledge and learn new fun facts about driving horses!

As teenagers, my next-younger brother and I decided we had to move up to a horse after a few years living with a donkey on my parents’ property in Ohio.  This, of course, required the approval of our Dad, his driving us about the area, looking for a horse, and reading yard signs advertising “House for sale” as “Horse for sale”.  At the time, there must have been a lot of people who wanted to sell their horse.  There wasn’t much difference between “house” and “horse”. Eventually, we found a Morgan/quarter-horse gelding and brought him home in a rented one-horse trailer.  Arriving home with the rented trailer, Dad wondered, “Now what?”.   Not considering what could happen, I squeezed between the horse and the trailer wall to back him out. We modified our existing one-donkey shed to make room for the…

Especially when it’s a COWBOY Hat at Cornerstone Ranch! If you wear a cowboy hat, you already understand how different it is from donning any other type of head covering. Where knits and pom-poms can be colorful and will keep your head warm, baseball caps support your team spirit and shield your eyes from the…