The Ultimate Stable

[Crystal]

Ok this may sound wierd, but if you were able to start form scratch and build a esticially pleasing and serviceable barn what utilities would you include? (imagine you have a unlimited budget)

In the barn I would include..

* hot and cold fossets
*overhead sprinklers
* private wing just for foaling
* private barn for stallions/ with breeding shed
* Each stall has screened window.
* Overhead skylights
* Each stall had lights/ and electrical outlet
* cordless phones on each corner.
* Office with internet access (for delmar ofcourse)
* kitchen with dinet. (Cabinet space for meds)
* Washer/dryer room
* tackroom/grain room
* Seperate barn for hay and bedding
* massive indoor with roundpen, and training track
* outdoor training track W/ gates
* European galloping track or trail.
* Seperated paddocks with non maintance fences, auto waters.
* Manure removal
* ON-time garbage removal
* Barn for layups with swimming pool.
* A team of caregivers that don't have to be told twice!

What did I forget?

[TBLADY]

the Bank account!lol sounds ideal to me...when can I move mine in? Must be in warmer part of the country with good hay production.

[Roguelet]

Don't forget the numerous TV's, each showing racing from a different track...

Oh, yeah, and a bunch of G1 winners in the stalls would be nice, too!

[Jessi P]

I saw the coolest thing on tv last night... there is a rehab farm in Lexington that has, get this.. a hyperbaric chamber for horses! It helps increase oxygen flow esp to the extremities and they mentioned one mare who was thought to have abcessed but actually had stepped on something and developed a raging infection. They said she was an extremely expensive mare in foal to a very spensive stallion, but maintained her pregnancy w/o complications because of the hyperbaric chamber.

I thought it was pretty dern cool... but obviously spensive as hell lol.

And yeah, gotta have the satellites with TVG and HRTV as well as private feeds, foaling monitors, and a whole bunch more I am sure I have forgotten....

[chiggins6]

Jessi P, are you married to Ricky Ricardo? "spensive", LOL!

[Crystal]

Oh yes Satalite Television..

* isle cameras, and a PA system " HEY Stop cribbing in that stall!!"

[Kristie]

You didn't mention heat and air conditioning. Is that a given? I particularly like the heat for foaling season. Slept in the barn when it was 17 degrees last year. Must be insane!

[ageecee]

Dont forget the computer so you check entries or post on here also a phone and fax machine.

[patrick]

I'd add:

*Martha Stewart on work release mucking out the stalls!

*Nice combo bar / reviewing stand. The wood from the bar will be from Manowar's former stall at the Riddle farm.

*Jerry Bailey will be our full time in house exercise rider.

*Weather will be easily be controlled via a remote control unit. Hurricanes will be easily directed away with the push of a button.

*Large wall sized display case featuring hundreds of win pics.

[xfactor fan]

Fly control and a kitchen just to mix special food for the horses.

[Crystal]

I think Martha would just be incontrol of landscaping and gardening, growing all those fresh plants, flowers, etc. She would also have a flock of chickens she has handpicked and raised herself. So we could have gorment meals. "It's a good thing"

Jerry Bailey would have to be layed up for a while because of his wrist. No boarding up windows for him.

I almost forgot, overhead fly control. The light mist that drops fly's at the drop of a hat.

I would also include a crew just for landscaping and pasture maintance. And those awesome fountains and ponds like at Taylor made or Lanes End.. I forget.

Only In my dreams..

[Jessi P]

I am sure, given enough time and proper research materials, Martha would grow everything she needs to mix her own organic horse feed on site and would have it freshly prepared four times daily... and it would be perfectly mixed to complement the hay she would grow in the back 40 (and of course it would be grown in different sections for horses with different needs from their hay).

Then she would start in on making/growing/preparing her own supplements.

[madelyn]

okay, I have a lot of the stuff in the list:

hot and cold FAUCETS
SEPARATE electric in stalls for lights and fans
private stall at one end of the barn with a folding wall (2 stalls become one massive one) for foaling
Separate stallion barn with private runs off each stall
Cordless phone
Huge medicine cabinet
Kitchen/office with DSL
Washer & dryer
separate Grain building
Hay goes in loft (elevator)
Shavings/bedding shed
Manure removal
Trash is taken out every week
Insect/fly spray spritzers in every stall
Great drainage
etc.

We are building round pen, indoor arena, more fenced paddocks, etc.

I don't get why you would want heat/AC -- bad for the horses. Our barn is a huge old solid oak horse barn built to take advantage of the breezes and is NEVER hot inside, plus each stall has a big fan on a switch. In winter we have heat lamps to hook up to the fan switch, the kind that heat the horse and the bedding not the air, for mares and foals. All the others have their natural big thick coats..

[katydid]

if you've got hay in a loft over the top of the horses...its a great way to warm the barn in the winter!

my list

-hot/cold water and pipes that never freeze
-an outlet for each stall for fans, etc
-12x12 stalls leading out to large individual paddocks
-large grassed paddocks (at least 4 at 3 acres each) with run-ins
-rubber matted aisleways and stalls
-indoor arena, outdoor arena, track, roundpen, groomed riding trails with jumps and hilly terrain for conditioning
-FREE manure removal =D
-fly control (natural predators, misters, and a few chickens)
-large heated tack room/lounge
-BATHROOM with flushable toilets!
-kitchen with stainless steel industrial sink, stove and refrigerator oh and lots of cabinets
-seperate barn for hay, grain, bedding, tractor, harrow, atv, and manure spreader
-closed circuit security system
-telephone
-high speed internet
-cable TV in the lounge and office
-office with computer
-skylights in the barn
-foaling barn
-vet lab on premises

Oh I can't think of anymore! Boy I will be depressed when I go to my little barn with dirt aisleways, electric rope fencing and 2 outlets in the barn. (although we do have a nice riding arena and trails!)

[Crystal]

Oh my god, I cant believe I forgot a full bathroom! Shower would be nice too!