Water Tower Farm is the only farm in Vermont, and one of the few in Northeast, with a trainer who was licensed by the national Walking Horse Trainers' Association. Dianne Lashoones, owner/trainer, is a long-serving past member of the Tennessee Walking Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association Board of Directors as Region 3 Director, seated on the Association's Bylaws Committee and the Pleasure Horse Versatility Sub-committee. Dianne is also President of New England Walking Horse Association, whose members populate New England. Dianne has worked with horses for most of her life starting with her youth involvement with the 4-H and Pony Club and has been involved with the Walking Horse breed since 1989.  Dianne is a certified Tennessee Walking Horse riding instructor and a registered North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) certified therapeutic riding instructor.

Water Tower Farm is a full service, year round training facility. Several of our own New England champions that we trained, being sold overseas, have gone on to become champions in Germany as well. Whip's Winter Wing, one of the farm's first Walkers sold to German buyers, won the first German held TWH Champion horse show. She and several other Walkers originating from our farm competed and showed well, even placing above the USA's 1994 World Champion Pleasure Horse, Royals Rolls Royce. These ambassadors of this great breed, as are all of the horses at Water Tower Farm, are as at home on the trail as in the show ring, exemplifying the versatility of the Tennessee Walking Horse.

Here at Water Tower Farm, we use the time honored technique of riding our horses for the miles it takes to fine tune their naturally bred gaits. We promote the versatility of the breed, training not only in saddleseat but western pleasure, reining and trail as well. Our US customers for training not only come from Vermont but from all over the Northeast, from as far away as New Jersey and Syracuse, New York. We offer training services that range from starting young horses under saddle to fine finish training of the more experienced horse. Horses trained for trail learn to cross water, negotiate obstacles, ride with vehicular traffic and to be levelheaded out on the trail. Whether its show or pleasure, horses are taught to be clipped, loaded, tied and to stand still for mounting. We do not believe that a horse should scoot as soon as you get a foot in the stirrup.