 The breeding lab contains complete facilities needed to run a successful breeding program. The lab includes a computer system for record keeping, microscopes, artificial insemination materials and other laboratory equipment needed for collecting stallions, analyzing semen, palpating and breeding mares, and performing overall herd health. The stallion collection facility has a phantom used for collecting stallions as well as the chutes needed to examine mares and doctor other horses.
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The foaling stall is located at the end of the mare barn and was designed and built specifically for foaling mares with safety for the handlers, mare, and foal. The stall includes monitoring cameras, slanted walls to prevent mares from getting trapped, double doors, and windows for ventilation and observation. The stall measures 12' by 24', and has three small irrigated pastures attached that are known as the "nursery pastures". California Thoroughbred Breeders Foundation donated the stall.
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The stallion barn consists of large reinforced stalls with attached pipe runs that contain stallions standing at the horse unit. This barn is secure and detached from the other working horse and mare barns.
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 The student horse barn is utilized for the equine courses that allow students to bring their own horses for the quarter. Students pay board for a stall with a corral and are allowed full access to the rest of the horse unit facilities.
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 The mare barn, working horse barn, 500- ton hay barn, and outside pipe corrals are the other structures available for use at the Equine Center.
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The horse pastures are utilized by mares in foal, growing foals, and enterprise horses at the beginning of their training. The Thoroughbred mares are kept on irrigated pasture year-round. Dry-land pasture supports most of the weanlings, yearlings, two year-olds and Quarter Horse broodmares. The horse unit has access to 150 acres of pasture.
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 Two living units are included at the Equine Center. One is located in the breeding shed and has an attached kitchen. The other room is located at the end of the mare barn. Each room has capacity for two people and has an attached bathroom.
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 The equine center has two sand arenas that are used for daily training and events. One arena, the Hadley Arena, is rectangular and measures 100'-by- 200'. The other arena is large and round with solid sides and deep footing. Both are used for classes and enterprises and are usually open to all students for riding. One portable round pen stands adjacent to the Hadley Arena.
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