Larkspur Run, since 2003

Two horses and a leaking bank barn to start with. The bank barn holds hay now.

Our story

It started with Saturday mornings

Ellen Haskins bought this farm in 2003 with two horses, a leaking bank barn, and a plan to teach a few neighborhood kids on Saturday mornings. The covered arena went up in 2014, after one too many January lessons got rained off. Today there are eleven school horses in the lesson string, most of them older than the kids who ride them, and thirty-four boarded horses in the two barns. We still pick every new rider's horse ourselves. Tell us you are nervous and we will know more than any riding level could tell us.

Meet the barn

The people behind the horses

Ellen Haskins

Owner & Head Instructor

Bought the farm in 2003 after twelve years galloping and grooming on Thoroughbred farms around Versailles. CHA-certified, teaches the adult riders, and still schools every new lesson horse herself.

Wade Pruitt

Barn Manager

Fourteen years running the barn. Spent his twenties shoeing horses, so he spots a sore foot from the end of the aisle. Lives on the farm and does night check.

Callie Burkhart

Instructor & Camp Director

Rode on her college equestrian team, then came here as a camp counselor in 2015 and never left. Teaches the kids, leads the trail rides, and runs the camp weeks.

The farm

Eighty acres off Old Frankfort Pike

Acres of pasture and trail

Stalls, every one of them taken

School horses in the lesson string

Come ride

Every rider starts somewhere

Book a private lesson or a trail ride, or call about a stall. We will match you with the right horse and take it at your pace.

See rates and book How lessons work