The Thoroughbred Horse Farm

This site is all about the Thoroughbred industry. Many of you have probably seen a few horse races on TV or, if you have been lucky enough, been to an actual racetrack. As with most venues, the real thing, the racetrack with all of it's pomp and circumstance can not be beat. But with that said, the pomp, the rich and famous, are really only a small portion of what thoroughbred racing is all about. When it comes to the heart beat of the industry, the grooms, exercise riders, jockeys, valets, grounds keepers, trainers, assistant trainers, people working the track kitchen, etc, these are the people that really make up the horse industry. These are people who love the rhythm of life that revolves around the track. When you watch or go to a race, many of you would not think about all that came before the first horse of the morning steps onto the track surface. And that is where another world, very seldom seen by the general public, comes into play. The proverbial chicken before the egg. That world, the Thoroughbred horse farm is what I am here to write about and hopefully to show John and Jane Doe how wonderfully exciting and rewarding it can be, as much as those heart pounding final moments before the finish line.

The horse farm, like the track, has a rhythm of it's own also. Much of it's rhythm and the tracks rhythm are the same. Early morning, still dark, the grooms arrive at the barns. They start opening tack rooms doors and the music starts, buckets start getting rattled, feed bags are torn open, stalls start getting mucked, tractor engines start up, etc. This is where it all starts for those horses we watch run on television or at the track.

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