Category: Barn Tours

Barn Tour: John Madden Sales

6/5/2018

How often is that you get to peak around the number one female rider in the world's barn?! Well we got to do just that! Our wonderful tour guides Becky and Meg showed us all around and gave us the inside scoop.

Beezie Madden & Authentic

Authentic

Read all about this superstar by clicking the link above! But, the short version is he was Beezie's mount for her first Olympic games in 2004 in Athens winning a team gold medal and again in 2008 winning a team gold medal and an individual bronze medal. Authentic was retired from competition in 2009.

Simon, Carlos & Authentic

McLain Ward & Carlos

Carlos & Simon

Beezie Madden & Simon

Carlos

Madden Mountain welcomes many other fantastic horses to enjoy their retirement. Carlos was a top horse for McLain Ward winning many big competitions. He retired in December of 2017.

Simon

In 2013 Simon and Beezie won the World Cup Finals and later that year Simon was awarded horse of the year. In 2015 the pair won the HITS Million dollar Grand Prix in Saugerties!

Group photo with Cortez C

Cortez C

Known in the barn as Tiny, Cortez C helped Beezie win the bronze at the 2014 World Equestrian Games and he won the "Best Horse" title. He also helped team U.S. win the silver at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Beezie Madden & Cortez C

So many beautiful stalls.

Our tour started by meeting Cortez C aka Tiny, who is very friendly and loved saying hello. Almost every one of their horses are bedded on straw, except for the couple who would add it to the dinner menu. We got to meet the up and coming horses in Beezie's string and the recent champion himself Breitling LS who had just returned home from Paris! They were literally still unpacking from their trip and we got to see Beezie's winning ribbon, plaque and cooler. We even saw her perfectly shinned Ariat tall boots!

Everything in the whole barn has a place so there is nothing out of sorts. There was a wall of cabinets and in between the grooming stalls that hold anything you would need to groom and ride. The tack room would make Pinterest jealous with all the Voltaire saddles on the wall and everything perfectly hung up and clean.

The grooming area.

The feed room.

The feed room was definitely the cleanest one I've been in! No mess, no clutter. Does it sound like heaven to you? They are sponsored by Cavelor so they have a range of their products where they can provide a specialized feeding program for each of their horses.

John Madden Sales dabbles in many aspects of the equine industry including some training clients, breeding, breaking young horses, sales and a high quality retirement facility. It is pretty common for barns to be multifaceted.

The indoor was smaller than I expected. But the idea is if the horses can jump around at Grand Prix height in there then they are ready for the indoor competition circuit! Thankfully it wasn't snowing when we visited so we got to see the riding fields and we waved at John and Beezie's house and wished her a lovely first day off in who knows how long.