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About Coventry Farms
Coventry Farms has been offering quality English riding instructions, horse showing, and equine sales for all ages and levels of riders since 1975. Conveniently located off of Capital Circle NE inside Tallahassee city limits, Coventry is a friendly, family-owned farm emphasizing safety, care, and a strong foundation in hunt-seat jumping and equitation. This is a show barn with the skill and experience to take riders from beginner lead-line classes all the way up to the A's, as far as anyone wants to go.

Locally owned and operated by trainer Alice Buford, who began formal riding lessons at the age of 7. She has trained with top trainers in the Southeast. She grew up at horse shows where she learned to braid and groom to help support her passion. At 15, she was given a job at a famous pony breeding farm in Virginia where she was taught to break and train young ponies. Weekends were spent showing her pony that she was campaigning, showing ponies from the farm she worked at, as well as catch riding for others. Alice attended FSU, graduating in 1985 with her BS degree in Business. Before finishing college, she began her teaching career. In the late 1990's she returned to FSU to pursue her Master's Degree in Social Work.

Coventry Farms shows both locally and on the national level both with individual riders and with the IEA Team. Coventry Farms also hosts an IEA show every year.