I used to work there as assistant manager years ago. One hot summer day Alex fired me because I told him the horses can't go out on a trail ride until they cool down and drink water because they were dripping with sweat. Alex said to me "what am I supposed to do with the customers waiting to go on trail?" I told him to tell them to either wait or come back later and how I will not stand by and watch these horses be overworked and abused. Then he said, "good there's the gate, leave!" He never even paid me for the hrs I put in before I got fired and when I asked him about my money he denied me my pay. He owes me $200. He robbed me and lied to me about everything. He's nothing but a greedy, money-hungry degenerate. He was originally a real estate agent when he first bought the stables around 2005 or 2006 and literally told me, "I need all the help I can get with this place because I have no idea what I'm doing." At the time I was certified in large animal care horse science and management and had 2 years of training at BOCES. Alex didn't like the fact that I had professional training in the equestrian field and that I knew a lot more than him. After he fired me I couldn't afford to board my horse there anymore and a friend of mine overheard him telling one of his colleagues that he's going to take my horse from me and take her to auction. She was a very old horse with severe back issues called lordosis and if she went to auction she'd wind up in a slaughter pen or worse. So I called millions of horse rescues all over the country and finally got in touch with a rescue in Tennessee. The guy in charge got in touch with a more local horse rescue upstate NY and they came down and helped me rescue my horse from that nasty place and trailered her upstate to a retirement farm where she lived out the rest of her days grazing and relaxing. Alex is a bad man. He has no heart. Before he bought the place it was rundown and not so attractive to look at but the atmosphere was friendly and very genuine. It was my home away from home until alex destroyed that. The facility looks a lot better now but the atmosphere is fake and greedy. Looks are deceiving.