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The barn is open, and we are continuing to offer lessons, camps and training while following covid-prevention measures: masking, social distancing, hand washing and hand sanitizing.

Four Star farm is located at Valley Dressage and Sporthorse Center, 7445 Pitt School Road, in Dixon, California, 95620. Whether you have a youngster eager to get started with horseback riding lessons, are returning to horseback riding after time off, want to advance in competition or are a competitive rider with Olympic goals, you are welcome in Four Star Farm’s riding lesson, training and competition programs. We specialize in three-day eventing, dressage and show jumping and attend shows for riders interested in competing. Four Star Farm offers horses for sale and leases and half leases.

For youngsters especially, caring for horses and learning to ride teach patience, perseverance, compassion and resilience. Developing leadership skills and confidence is inherent in working with and riding horses. Four Star Farm owner and trainer Natalie Brady considers her role as both a life coach and instructor.

The focus of our riding lessons is developing the skills that allow you and your equine partner to be in harmony … and have fun! You’re welcome to visit the barn, observe lessons and our amazing school horses and talk about goals for you or your child. Feel free to contact owner and trainer Natalie Brady, 707-312-1119 (text preferred), natalie@fourstarfarm.com, with questions.

Four Star Farm also offers summer horseback riding camps and adults can create their own camp experience.

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Welcome new lesson clients!

FSF Rider Welcome PacketDownload

Please download, print and read the new rider welcome packet, which includes a rider interest form, so we get to know you, Four Star Farm and Valley Dressage policies, liability waiver, payment policies and information about riding with Cece and Natalie. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you at the barn!

Welcome New Full Training Clients

FSF Full Training Welcome PacketDownload

Interested in having your horse(s) in full training with Four Star Farm? Please download our welcome packet, which includes a full training contract, Four Star Farm and Valley Dressage policies, payment policies, and our current show calendar. Thank you for your interest and please contact Natalie with any questions you have. Thank you!

Four Star Farm News

June 20 Four Star Farm Horsemanship Class

Sign up online for the upcoming June 20 non-riding horsemanship class, 2-4 p.m., $40 per participant.

This class will primarily cover how to prepare for horse shows: braiding and bathing, understanding and memorizing dressage tests and walking a show jumping course. Riders who are considering entering the Four Star Star Farm schooling show on June 27 are encouraged to attend.

Note: New and beginning riders are also welcome to attend and continue practicing leading, grooming and tacking up. As new riders become more proficient with basic skills and are able to get their horse ready for lessons independently, they spend more time in the saddle.

June 27 Four Star Farm Schooling Show

The entry form for the June 27 Four Star Farm Schooling Show is available in the Barn A tack room. Please talk with your instructor about entering. This at-home show is open only to Four Star Farm clients and Valley Dressage boarders. It’s a relaxed way to learn what is involved in showing in a familiar environment.

Event at Rebecca Farm

Natalie is off to Kalispell, Montana in July to compete in the premier Event at Rebecca Farm, July 21-25. Three-day eventers from all over the western U.S. converge to compete at this destination venue. Every competitor is made to feel special and the cross-country jump courses are beautiful.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Four Star Farm instructor Giugiu on her third place finish on Spotty in the Open Beginner Novice division at the April Fresno County Horse Park Horse Trials. Divisions designated “Open” include riders who have professional and amateur status. 

Horse Camp with Four Star Farm

Boarding at Valley Dressage and Sporthorse

The exterior of Barn A.

Stalls with paddocks are available at Valley Dressage. $695/month includes hay fed three times per day, stable mix and supplements once per day and turnout for two hours per day on irrigated paddocks. Valley Dressage features an outdoor jumping arena, indoor arena and covered dressage court. Join us!

Horses at valley get turned out daily on irrigated paddocks.
You have a choice of three arenas: a covered dressage court, outdoor jumping arena and indoor arena.

Horses For Sale

At Four Star Farm, we take pride in offering and producing quality eventing, dressage and jumper competition horses. Our sale horses range from finished show horses to young horses beginning their careers.

If you have a horse for sale, Four Star Farm proudly offers a quality consignment program. We can design a customized program to help you market your horse. Four Star Farm will also act as consultants—if we do not have the horse for you, we can find it elsewhere using our extensive network of contacts throughout California and the world. We have dependable contacts in Germany, Ireland, and England.

Best Kept Secret


Best Kept Secret is a 2013, 16.3 hand Trakehner gelding. Competing at Preliminary and Fourth Level dressage, he has the scope and talent to go to the top. He is by the Grand Prix show jumping stallion Horalas Pg*, out of the very special mare Barina (out of a mare by Peron Pg*, Olympic bronze medalist in dressage and by Graditz Pg*). Barina is also the dam of the approved Grand Prix dressage stallion Bond James Bond. Best Kept Secret, aka BK, was the Reserve Champion for the West Coast FEH (Future Event Horse). This exceptionally well-bred character has a ton of personality and will keep you laughing and endlessly entertained! His work ethic is also exceptional. He has lovely gaits and a soft mouth. He is sensitive and responsive to light aids without being hot or difficult. He is a real pleasure to ride—so much so, you won’t want to get off! This is a horse for international competition. Serious inquiries only, please.

Bodega Sky

Bodega Sky is an eye-catching 2015 Trakehner gelding, 16.2h. This charismatic gentleman checks all the boxes. He is very kind, tolerant, and forgiving yet sensitive, trainable, and athletic, which makes him ideally suited to be a competitive Young Rider horse or an upper-level prospect for an ambitious adult amateur. He is easily schooling third-level dressage, effortlessly jumping 1.15m courses, competing at Training Level eventing and occasionally teaching a kid or adult amateur what he has recently learned. He has perfect manners, no vices, other than requiring his person to be affectionate. He also has a sense of humor that will endlessly keep his fans entertained. He would prefer a show home with a partner who keeps horse treats on auto-ship. $55,000