Chagrin Valley Farms is a great place to take lessons. I am older and a beginner, but I have had a wonderful experience every time I am there. I have been going for almost a year and have enjoyed every lesson I have had there. The horses are well trained and cared for, the barn and arena is always clean, the staff are helpful and sweet. The trainers are patient, very knowledgeable, and clearly love teaching! All of them are a pleasure to be around. I am working with Fiona now. She is fun, talented, and she brings a great deal of experience. I have made some new friends and get the chance to be around the horses, which makes me so happy! They have horse shows and parties often, too. Chagrin Valley Farms is amazing! read more

The management is not very good. Very power hungry and degrading to their employees. Constantly talking trash about parents and kids and the trainers don't do much and expect the tack assistants to handle every single thing that they can easily do since they sit in their offices all day and eat. The horses are not taken care of very well and do not get good turnout. On sunny days they turn the horses out for two hours and on rainy/cold days no turn out at all and no exercise for the horses at all. The horses who need extensive care and attention are thrown to the side since they're not valuable to their lesson program. Overall very shady and very two faced, faked individuals. Over priced for a not so good service. Go somewhere else. read more

This use to be a great place to take lessons. Good safe horses knowledgeable instructors and nice facilities. Around 4 years ago the quality of school horses decreased but they still had great knowledgeable instructors with good reputations. Unfortunately over the past year there has been a lot of turn over and not in a good way. The only reason I kept my children there was it was close to home and my kids had friends there. But after seeing how they treated employees as well as clients and volunteers and ESPECIALLY the horses I have ultimately decided to stop supporting them and pull my kids. First off Joy Lambert is a bully. (She recently was asked to leave WEC after a disagreement on her judging that led to her screaming at the competitors that made the appeal. WEC has asked her not to return to judge at there facility from what I've heard ) being a horsie mom that just wanted a fun place for her kids to take lessons at so they can ride with me eventually I was also very concerned about how they treated they're teen employees and volunteers. Berating them for speaking out about the horses health and blaming their falling reputation on the TEENAGERS working there. I have so many horror stories of CVF I can't even fit it into one review. Most importantly how do they treat their horses? Well years ago it was passable but now this is disturbing two of their chunkiest horse Rudy and Sammy ate very underweight a year ago this was not so shey hind end has been dipping when she walks and they have a horse with "summer sores" that continuously get worse and worse. Even showing with bloody knees. All the horses are under muscles and under weight and if you say anything about it they will berate you over it even if you're a client. They'll also take it out on your kids so beware. They over mount kids constantly because they have to many kids per lesson horses. The horses go 3 weeks without off days being jumped typically about 4 times a week and alot of times doing lessons multiple times a day. They don't put near enough bedding in the stalls making the barn stink and causing the horses to just sit in urine. Also don't be fooled by Aubrey's credentials... cause she really hasn't done much in the hunter world. She just isn't objectively a good trainer. I understand chagrin knows beginners are where the moneys at so they're trying to move away from advanced students but don't let her bio fool you. Horse shows always are hours behind despite being having low number of entries. The office is gas gotten into fights with numerous trainers. I'll probably keep editing this as I remember more of our experience cause there is so much to say it's hard to get her my thoughts. Disappointed to say the least as well as I use to love their mini trial series but now it sounds like both that and the dressage shows are likely to be cut out completely. I will not be supporting schenieders or chagrin for that matter take your money to the many other amazing talented trainers and lesson barns that care about your kids and their horses!!! read more

I can't believe that I just discovered this gem in Cleveland! My bf found this place when he was looking up places to do equestrian and we decided to go there for a usef equestrian competition one weekend. we met this wonderful lady who's probably the owner or manager of this barn. she gave us a tour of the barn and showed us different places and many horses that live there or temporarily stayed there for the competition weekend. the horses seem to be in fairly happy and healthy condition. they regularly host equestrian competitions and they have a few class horses at the barn as well. private horse owners can leave their horses there to be taken care of with a pretty reasonable price. if you are interested in learning equestrian they can definitely hook you up with a trainer and get you started. overall, a wonderful place and I will go visit them whenever I can! read more

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Chagrin Valley is a gem! I had a last-minute trip to Cleveland this week and they fixed me up with two great instructors (Megan and Chloe) and two equally great mounts (Shortcake and Sydney). The indoor arena (always handy when it's 30 degrees outside) is impeccable, with nice soft footing, and the equipment was very well maintained. I'm not a rank beginner, and not a grand prix rider, either, but Megan and Chloe were very attuned to my ability and scaled the lessons perfectly. They gave me quite a workout, just challenging enough to keep me inspired, but not so hard that I was beyond my comfort range. So, whether you live in Cleveland, or are going there for a visit, carve out some time for a lesson--or multiple ones--at Chagrin Valley Farms. I can't wait to come back! read more