Gerry has spent a lifetime involved with horses: young, old, newborn, and aged. She began riding at the age of 4 (a vile tempered Shetland Pony named Blackie she atributes her tenacious ability to stay in the saddle to,) with only a four year interim in her life without horses. She has owned, bred, trained, ridden, driven, and shown eight different breeds of horses over four decades, and boarded 30 different breeds since 1980. She rides hunt seat, dressage, western, trail, gymkhana (barrel racing, etc.) bareback, jumped, and drives.

The full time Barn Manager, Jim Bruder maintains the property nearly 24 hours per day, seven days per week. He is up and feeding anytime between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m., so it does not take him long to be every new horse's favorite sight! Jim has over ten year's stabling experience and over twenty years' experence riding, showing, and owning horses. He handles each horse firmly and with kindness. All of the horses boarded with us nicker at the sight of him or sound of his voice!

Genessa Eaton, Gerry's adult daughter, runs her own smaller boarding stables located on Saline-Waterworks Road (2 miles away); teaches riding lessons and helps out at CornerStone Aces, Too. Genessa began riding at the age of 4 (a wonderful little Appaloosa pony named "Suzy") and has owned, ridden, trained, and shown Arabian horses for over 25 years. She rides and has shown hunter over fences, dressage, saddle-seat, western, trail, fitting and showing, and gymkhana. She is an assisting coach with Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Equestrian Team, a member of Spur of The Moment Horse Club and Open Horse Shows and a 4-H horse club alumnus.

We at CornerStone Acres simply love and respect horses as horses and we love being around them. We meet horses’ needs based on the nature of horses: what horses need and thrive upon as foraging herd animals. Our hay, grain, grouping, and bedding are based on 40 years of owning, training, riding, breeding, raising and showing a multitude of personal horses, and years of boarding horses. We continue to remain current with continuing education and research via the Internet, satellite television horse channels, agrigultural media and extension office, veterinarians, and independent horse nutritionalists. We don't claim to know everything there is to know about horses, but given that we've owned and boarded horses for as long as we have, we know quite a bit! The proof of our dedication and knowledge is obvious in the healthy, contented horses that are in our care. We are always willing to attend to all questions about your horse or our methods.  

Training

Our resource trainers and instructors we use or refer:

   I cannot believe the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something; to have made some difference that you lived at all.

~~Leo C. Rosten