Kind of a sad day,

Well after 23 years of working on a large thoroughbred farm on and off over the years, and having mowed the lawn there the last 6 years, and the vet took care of our horses for about 12 years, the farm closed up. It was sad to
Mow the lawn there today, normally there are people, horses tractors moving about, but today all 100 stalls and the pastures were empty, had a erie feeling like a ghost town. Tractors all parked, seemed strange. The 1/2 owner died and the rest don't want the 500 acre farm, so it will go up for sale. I have alot of good memory's from that place. Will see what happens with the farm over time.

I can relate to your feelings. Let's just hope it doesn't meet the same fate of so many farms, where the last crop that is grown is houses.

Why didn't you check into buying the place? Not profitable?

Any idea what they are asking?! I feel bad for Barry sice that was his biggest customer (and ours).
I was thinking...could make a heck of a boarding facility there. If only it had an indoor arena. Renovate the houses into a bed and breakfast type of setup, market it to NYC folks as a boarding facility that they can come stay at when they visit their horses, and fill out the B&B with people who want to stay somewhere where they can trail/pleasure ride. X-C skiing in winter...could be a money maker...or money pit. Hope everyone is doing well at your house...see you got your hay in nice and early this year.

Hi steve, ya were all doing good, and hay is done! I heard around 3.3 million for the farm!

Yup, its hard to plow in houses for the next crop.

The only good thing about our current depression is that those nasty (weeds) houses are not popping up at such a fast rate these days...

Man that sucks, sounded like you had a pretty good deal there, not far from home etc.

We have a large horse farm in town here, been around a long time, best rolling hills and views, some of it ended up developed, most is intact, still horses there, different owner.

Our place has about 25 horses at the moment, its different than dairy or doing crops but I tell you what, its still ton of hard work, and I am glad to be away from those crazy thoroughbreds myself, they just wear you out, and there's always a prime opportunity to get seriously hurt at any time. I opted out of it due to my leg and dealing with 1500 lb monsters, shoulder can't take the abuse, and that wears on your patience, short fuse and horses do not mix, course you work with em enough, you always have your favorites, and though they are a pain and all the above you still hate to leave em, had 2 that were actually fun to work with, one a stallion, a real gent too, never saw anything like him, and a gelding that really wanted to please you when working.

So maybe its a blessing, hopefully you'll find suitable replacement work you like, I am in the same boat now, have to go back to construction or some darned thing to pay the bills, as the demanding physical work takes a lot out of ya.

I ran a large hog/grain/cattle farm for about 5 years. The owner had 3 sons. A veterinarian, a commercial construction builder and the other had his own farm/ grading business. He went strictly into cattle and sold the hogs. In about 5 years all the hog barns fell down and it gets depressing going over there because of all of the memories. Now the older son has taken over the cows but does a sloppy job. Just glad the place is paid for.

Yes it's alot of work, they bred thoroughbreds, did track layups, had around 120 foals every year. Hopefully if and when it sells the new owners will keep us to maintain it?? As I'm getting older I only like handling certian horses, I wouldent work in the breeding shed when I worked there 4 years ago, it can get dangerous. I have 3 old retired mares from the track and who were broodmares, and there easy to handle, some took a looooooooong time to calm down!