Full Circle Track Horse Boarding

10/14/2026

It is ridiculously hot 🥵 for the season right now, but it’s such a gorgeous day ❤️. Everyone is happy to be squeezing in some grass time before more rain tomorrow! We’re grateful for the couple of inches we got from the hurricane. The mountains protect us from the worst weather. Love living in the Shenandoah Valley. ⛰️🙂🐴

10/09/2026

PENDING

Baby Sam is back from a week of bootcamp and he's learned so much! Due to no fault of his own, his owner has decided to part ways with him and pursue a horse that's more finished. Do you know someone who wants the cutest baby Gypsy Vanner ever? 😍

Meet Sam! He is sure to steal your heart with his soulful eyes and easygoing personality. When we first met him, he hopped off a trailer in the dark at 1 AM after a week-long trailer ride from Montana to Virginia. He handled that situation like a seasoned show horse and walked back to the barn in the dark without complaint.

Sam isn’t phased by much; he has been around farm equipment and dogs. He stands tied like a modeled citizen and is very motivated by food and praise. He is being groomed and handled daily and is gaining clarity on what’s expected of him when leading. He is easy to catch and bathe and loves to be with people.

Like any draft horse, he can be a bit pushy, but he is a fast learner! He is not for a beginner, but we expect he will be easy to saddle and ride for the first time one day in the future.

He would make an excellent trail horse or dressage prospect. He is currently about 15 hands and may mature closer to 16 hands. Sam is a very traditional Gypsy Vanner with heavy bone and extremely generous feather. He has the calm, willing temperament the breed is known for and carries himself with a taller more athletic build than some other gypsy lines. His sire is a Gypsy Gold bred stallion out of VV King William, giving him strong traditional lineage and excellent breed character. Sam is a barn favorite you’ll want to keep around!

He is looking for a new 🏠 for 95🥕🥕.
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Send us a DM or call/text 540-471-0839 for more information. Please leave a voice message. Thanks!

Video of Sam linked in the comments 👇 Note: Photos have been edited to remove the human handlers 😆

10/06/2026

Love this time of year! The tracks are looking so pretty. 🍃

10/05/2026

Rainy days are better with friends! Happy to see the sun coming out today. 😃

10/02/2026

Little Sam is off to bootcamp! We tried mixing up the herds today with the hope that everyone would get along and we could have more shelters, feeders, and community spaces for winter. We’re aware of a lot of track systems that have mixed herds, and some that don’t. It just depends on the individuals! 😉

Unfortunately, Lotus and Chauncy could not cope safely with mares in the mix, so we will continue running the farm with two separate herds - and that’s okay. We love trying new things but it has to work for everyone. We’re very protective of all the horses here. ❤️

Looking for a dirt lot, low-starch solution for your horse? We have some boarding spaces available. Minis, mares, geldings, donkeys - we’ll find a way to make it work if it’s the right fit. Send us a DM or text 540-471-0839.

10/01/2026

Good morning ☀️ 🍂 🐴

09/29/2026

Less is more. ❤️ There is no substitute for time, patience, and good training. 🐴

09/29/2026

It never ceases to amaze us how much the horses remember! It’s been about a week and a half since they’ve had grass time due to drastic temperature drops and rain, but now the weather has leveled back out and the boys know if the Kubota is following them, the field is open. 🐎💨💨💨

Reach out to us via DM for boarding inquiries or text 540-471-0839.

09/22/2026

Very well said. 🙂

A lot of people are put off moving their horse to a track system due to the requirement that they're barefoot.
Many believe their horse can't cope without shoes as they go lame if they loose a shoe.
Or their soles are too thin.
Or their farrier told them the hooves weren't hard enough or had an imbalance that required shoes to correct it.

We've has lots of horses here that have had these issues and their feet have all improved and transitioned to barefoot fine and here's why.

Track systems are made to improve horses hooves.
They were invented to minic the impact a wild environment has on their feet, by a farrier (Jamie Jackson) who was astonised how good a wild horses feet looked when he was called to trim a newly caught mustang. You can read about this in many of his books.
In the wild they move up to 20miles a day over rough and varied terrain so why can't our domestic horses do the same?

It's not genetics.
Every horse can go barefoot but not every environment sets them up for success.
Their feet are incredibly adaptable to whatever environment they are in. If they go from bedded stable to grassy field and only go over harder surfaces a few hours a week when ridden then their feet never have chance to harden up.
They adapt to the environment they live in 23hrs a day.
But if they move over stones, concrete and sand regularly in their daily lives then their feet grow harder horn in order to cope.

What they eat also plays an important role.
People often ask what they need to add to their horses feed for them to grow strong hooves but it's really more about what we take out- sugar.
Horses have evolved to thrive in areas of really poor quality grass, not the lush green stuff that tends to grow in most of the UK.
Grass is so changeable in it's content. From season to season, day to day or even morning to evening, the sugar content varies immensely.
By feeding hay all year round we remove that variable and go back closer to what they evolved to eat.
The transition period can be the most difficult but with the help of our wonderful trimmers The Naked Hoof - Cara Stephen, Equine Podiatrist and Harlé Knights DEP - Equine Podiatrist and the use of our hoof boots when needed, they can live quite comfortably during this time and even be ridden too.

Picture is of a lovely healthy hoof print in our new sand pit.

PS. There are several reasons we insist on our horses being barefoot and one of them is for safety. We have lots of horses living together so don't want anyone to get hurt, as well as lots of low hanging haynets that shoes could get caught on.