New horse farm offers high-end features in eastern Tallahassee
The Stables on Buck Lake is a new horse farm in eastern Tallahassee featuring on-site boarding, trails and riding lessons, including therapeutic riding for children and adults with disabilities.
Located on Buck Lake Road, the high-end equestrian facility is owned by Dylan Leoni and Spencer Brass, who said there was a need in Tallahassee for a "premier equestrian facility to bring people into the sport."
"That's what we built," said Brass, a real estate investor who is now challenging Allison Tant for her Tallahassee-area seat in the Florida House of Representatives.
"We take beginners from 5 years old who want to learn how to ride, all the way up to 100 years old," he added. "People can learn to ride there ... We have people who do show circuits. The primary discipline is eventing," also known as three-day horse trials.
The Stables offers event space for corporate retreats and therapeutic riding lessons for children and adults living with mental and physical disabilities.
The adaptive therapy allows students to perform mounted and unmounted work on or around the horse, according the facility's materials. Packages range from one lesson for $85 with a certified instructor to eight lessons for $600.
Leoni talked about why he and Brass, his spouse, decided to purchase the 46-acre estate and said they invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into "improving the property and commercializing it," which includes fencing, pastures, a driveway and a parking area.
"We made it to where it could handle a lot more people coming to the farm, versus just a family that lives there," Leoni said.
Its centralized location was a swaying factor, Leoni added. He said most horse farms in the area are 30 minutes or more away in surrounding counties or south Georgia.
"Our goal is that people have a nice place that's well maintained and safe and enjoyable for everyone that wants to come and practice their equestrian skills or learn how to ride," Leoni said. "Being only 10 minutes away from everything in Tallahassee (is) really convenient for a lot of people to make the drive."
If you go
The facility is hosting a grand opening 6-8 p.m. Friday, which will feature free food and drinks from local vendors and tours. It's open to the public.
Its address is 9400 Buck Lake Rd., and the phone number is 850-629-6565.
Contact Economic Development Reporter TaMaryn Waters at tlwaters@tallahassee.com and follow @TaMarynWaters on X.
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: The Stables at Buck Lake offers equestrian lux to eastern Tallahassee
