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Canterbury Court was started in 1990 with the
stated purpose of breeding, raising, importing,
and selling German and Dutch Sporthorses for
the Olympic disciplines. We attended multiple
breeders courses in Germany, studied
pedigrees and production reports and even
founded the American Hanoverian Stallion
book in order to duplicate the successes of
European breeders. We have had multiple
successes with National and Regional
Champions passing through our barn doors.We use two main facilities for our
operations. Our new training facilities are
located in Sanger, California, on old river
bottom land. We are located directly on
the beautiful Fresno Blossom Trail The
trail is a nearly 70 mile long self-guided
tour of the flowering orchards of eastern
Fresno County, California. The is an
optional Orange Blossom and Wildflower
Trail located off the main Blossom Trail as
well. In addition to our fabulous views, we
have a Barnmaster 12 stall barn with
indoor wash racks and saddling areas.
The stalls are matted with SoftStall to
protect the horses' legs and feet. We have
SoftStep on all aisles and racks. SoftStep
provides excellent traction and
cushioning for both horse and humans.
Our natural sand arena is the same
material that most others have to import
into their arenas. We also have three large
mixed forage pastures where we keep our
brood mares and rotate our young horses
in the fall and winter. Our second facility is in the Sierra Nevada
foothills and is operated by Season's
Stables. There are a pair of steep hills, a
small lake, and a valley. Here we keep our
young horses there so that they can learn
to be sure footed, travelling over streams,
rocks, and dead fall. The pastures are
large enough to allow development on
sound bones, joints, and tendons. We
have found that alternating our young
stock between the rough hills and green
pastures as well as carefully monitoring
their diet has resulted in nearly 100% of
our horses being OCD free.
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