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Windfall Farms?

Postby Caroline1 » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:18 pm

Good Afternoon everyone!
I was wondering if WINDFALL FARMS that had that Jepordy host Alex Trebek still open / operating?
I have a yearling that needs to be trained in that area...
Thank You for your time.
Caroline
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Postby Derby Lyn » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:30 pm

http://www.limoneira.com/realestate_windfall.html
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Re: Windfall Farms?

Postby ireneinwa » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:36 pm

Caroline1 wrote:Good Afternoon everyone!
I was wondering if WINDFALL FARMS that had that Jepordy host Alex Trebek still open / operating?
I have a yearling that needs to be trained in that area...
Thank You for your time.
Caroline


When Alex owned it the name was Creston Farms. I heard it went down hill when the new owners bought it and renamed it Windfall Farms
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Re: Windfall Farms?

Postby dublino » Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:23 pm

ireneinwa wrote:When Alex owned it the name was Creston Farms. I heard it went down hill when the new owners bought it and renamed it Windfall Farms


Did you see the brochure?
http://www.limoneira.com/pdfs/Windfall_Farms.pdf

The place has $25m worth of improvements you could eat off the place its that swanky? :?

Downhill - you are a hard woman to please Irene if thats going downhill, good lord Mr Irene must have it tough? :roll:
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Postby Caroline1 » Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:38 pm

Dublino

In all fairness that money could have come from anywere. Im assuming Trebek himself, however, there are many wine vineyards here.
I guess if the place is being sold off parcel by parcel, its no longer working. All that money in repairs and improvements down the drain.

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Postby ireneinwa » Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:27 pm

It didn't go downhill as a nice farm, they wern'y horsemen and the business went down the drain.
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Postby dublino » Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:04 am

ireneinwa wrote:It didn't go downhill as a nice farm, they wern'y horsemen and the business went down the drain.


Why have a 720 acre horse farm in California?
I believe there is a little place called, wait whats it again oh yeah KENTUCKY where the have a few patches of land designated for horses.

Its crazy having something this good in CA - its not like they were ever going to break even by standing 3 $5k stallions.
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Postby Sysonby » Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:03 am

The business model didn't work because it was too gold plated but are you really saying that Californians should just suck it up, realize that they 2500 miles away from the breeding action and either keep their horses a couple of thousand miles from home or preferably move over, just get out of the business and let the big boys do what they do?

I just moved a mare for the 2010 season to the Bluegrass state and got my first bill. It is about 75% more as much per day as California and I board at one of the nicer farms in the state. Believe me if there were alternatives I'd take them but the stallions are always going to be the draw in this non AI world--not the farms. Windfall just didn't realize that.
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