What are some farms in Paris KY near Clairborne?

summerhorse · Postby **summerhorse** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:54 am

I know Stone Farm. Are there any others within 30-40 min. drive of Claiborne with some stallions to gawk at? We are going to see Claiborne but the lady said its about an hour tour so we should be done by 1 pm and would like to see another farm near by. Thanks!

sunday_silence · Postby **sunday_silence** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:32 am

Summerhorse, I even checked my map of farms and can't find anything else out there you might want to visit other than Stone, which you already know. I think you could be to Gainesway in 15 minutes or so from Claiborne. I'm not sure they're allowing visitors, but I did hear they were considering being open for that once breeding season ended.

brogers · Postby **brogers** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:02 pm

Stone Farm is the only one relatively close. If you are going back down Paris Pike you could do Walmac and Gainesway (on the other side of the road).

summerhorse · Postby **summerhorse** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:45 pm

Thanks a bunch! I'll check them out.

JimP · Postby **JimP** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:21 pm

Hi Guys,

Castleton Lyons is a must see!! What a beautiful farm and some very nice stallions as well.

sunday_silence · Postby **sunday_silence** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:27 pm

Yes, and CL is not far at all from Gainesway. Spendthrift is even closer to Gainesway, but I'm not sure there are any stallions there to excite. But, by the time you get to Castleton Lyons, you're pretty far afield from Claiborne!

StrawberryFelidos · Postby **StrawberryFelidos** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:50 pm

Gainesway is quite iffy as to the visitor thing. Called in January and they pretty much said, "we'll have a visitor's plan in place in a few months!" Called in May, and it was- "sorry, ma'm, but we are a breeding farm and we don't do tours." You breed, huh? Whoa. Whoda thunk that?

Of course, that was better than the reception I got from Stonewall. Called in January, they said- sure, you can visit the stallions! Just set an appointment in May! Called in May, and guess what? "We don't do visits, m'am. This is a breeding farm." No shitake mushrooms, lady. I thought you were a friggin' carnival.

Of course, Adena has changed their tune in a visitor-friendly way. In 2004, no way, m'am, stay away! In 2006, sure, come on over! :lol:

austique · Postby **austique** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:00 pm

Far be it for me to suggest lying :twisted:

, but tell them you've got a mare and see if they don't change their tune :wink:

I'm cool with limiting things during breeding season when its wicked busy, but how about trying to leverage our stars during the offseason (those that aren't pulling double nooky duty in the Southern Hemisphere) and trying to cultivate some fans. Crips I bet you could get folks to volunteer to be trained to be tour guides. :roll:

If you set up a couple of scheduled group tour times a week it wouldn't be that big a hassle.

sunday_silence · Postby **sunday_silence** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:01 pm

I'm surprised Stonewall did such a quick 180. Perhaps the volume of visitors became more than they could handle? Maybe now that breeding season is tailing off they will let you come.

magic code · Postby **magic code** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:20 pm

Stonewall and Gainesway were both receptive to us when I contacted them in April about visiting in May. We are breeders, though.

sunday_silence · Postby **sunday_silence** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:58 pm

magic code wrote:Stonewall and Gainesway were both receptive to us when I contacted them in April about visiting in May. We are breeders, though.

I don't know of a stud farm that isn't receptive to breeders :lol:

summerhorse · Postby **summerhorse** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:02 am

Thanks! I will write, I guess I can only write one at a time though on the extremely off chance they all said Come On Down! LOL I'll let you know what they say.

AfleetAlex#1fan · Postby **AfleetAlex#1fan** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:32 pm

There everywhere in Kentucky

Sysonby · Postby **Sysonby** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:51 am

The fan visitor thing cuts both ways. On one hand, I can see their point because some fan vistors seem to act incredibly privileged at the same time when breeding farms are incredibly busy with real clients.

OTOH, you never know who that fan is or what they will be in the future. Several years ago, I visited a big Kentucky farm as a non TB owning fan and I represented myself as such. The girl in the office was very gracious and took me around to the paddocks. We spent a lot of time with a young stallion I had zero interest in but he happened to be one of her favorites. I snapped pictures out of politeness.

Six years later, I bred a mare to that stallion.

They really never know. :wink:

sunday_silence · Postby **sunday_silence** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:41 am

On one level, these farms are businesses, taking time out of their enterprise to host people who are not going to take advantage of their services. I'm sort of surprised that any farms do this. I don't know what the liability is, but it's there, for sure. However, on the other hand, I also feel like that fans are an important part of racing, so farms have an obligation to be hospitable. I hate to use that word "obligation," because it conveys a certain entitlement attitude that I don't intend. But, I don't think farms should act like "just fans" don't count. Racing needs fans going out to the track and laying down their hard-earned cash, you know? I've had more than one farm manager tell me that they try to treat fans as well as they treat clients, because you never know when a fan might become a potential client or who the fan might know/talk to who's a potential client. People don't forget stuff like that.

Just my $.02

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