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| 912.1 | Pardon my Ignorance, but... | HDSRUS::STILES | | Mon Apr 10 1989 16:45 | 5 |
| What exactly is a 'horse retirement home'? I joke about my horse
being boarded at an old age home because 8 out of the 10 horses
are over 20 and retired to little or no work. What's the difference?
Thanks
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| 912.2 | a horsey retirement home is.... | MAIL::HILDEBRAND | | Thu Apr 27 1989 12:39 | 7 |
| A horse retirement home is for those people who have one or two
or however many horses and live in a city without the luxury of
a large pasture or backyard to put their retired horses. At least
in our city, pasture board with care and daily turnouts are hard
to find. We have expensive traditional boarding and training
facilities, but no good place to our equine senior citizens to live
out their lives.
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| 912.3 | Used to be Red Acre Farm in stow, ma. | USADEC::PARTAIN | KA1MWP | Thu Apr 27 1989 14:04 | 9 |
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Used to be Red Acre Farm in stow, right behind the house, was a
home for our retired equines...alas..the developers struck..all
housing now, what a horrible sight. Used to be a nice place. I think
there is still a lot of activity there but I have not checked into
it.
Chuck
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| 912.4 | | AKOV11::GEBELEIN | | Thu Apr 27 1989 15:22 | 7 |
| Mitch Steege ran Red Acre Farm in Stow for a few years as a hunter
barn. He still may run his operation out of there, but I have been
out of the hunter circuit for two years and have not kept in touch
with a lot of people.
Kris
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| 912.5 | | MEIS::SCRAGGS | | Thu Apr 27 1989 15:39 | 11 |
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Development did strike, and hard. Growing up around the corner from
Red Acre Farm was so nice. Summer afternoons biking over to give all
the animals carrots was great. The original farm is still there, still
under operation by Mitch Steege as a Hunter barn. The fields and other
houses were sold off individually. Many new homes already built, many
many more to come. Suddenly Stow doesn't seem so quiet and peaceful
as it once did. Red Acre Farm was once a real treasure!
Marianne
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| 912.6 | | SWAM2::MASSEY_VI | | Wed Jul 29 1992 13:02 | 5 |
| I would be interseted in hearing if you started you retirement farm. I
have 20 year old TB broodmare that would love to be out at pasture. She
is by no means old and decrepid but had bowed a tendon and wont be
ridden or bred anymore. Let us know what happened if you are still
active in this notes
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