Workers prepared to bring in yearling fillies at sunrise on the Mill Ridge Farm, 2800 Bowman Mill Rd. in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, January, 05, 2012. The farm will be celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. | Photo by Charles Bertram | Herald-Leader Staff | www.kentucky.com
A year in the life of Central Kentucky horse farms
By Janet Patton, 1.30.12, Kentucky.com
On horse farms, winter is a time of waiting. Waiting for foals to arrive, waiting for breeding season to start.
At Mill Ridge Farm in Lexington, the atmosphere is expectant, in every sense of the word. Heavily pregnant mares with swollen winter-fuzzy bellies spend their days eating and enjoying sunshine when they can. For those not in foal, it’s a peaceful month in frosty pastures, except when they aren’t getting their teeth filed.
“It’s really the most quiet time of the year,” said Headley Bell, who now runs the day-to-day operations of the farm founded in 1962 by his mother, Alice Bell (now Chandler)… Read more at Kentucky.com
