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I was a partner with my husband with a thoroughbred farm owner and was given a filly for Christmas one year.

My filly was an AZ bred and good breeding for then, from there.

The sign I designed for the ranch is still at the entrance all these years later, but the aura of enchantment that we (and many guests) found there, has died.

We hit the Del Mar Select Sale every year and always had one of our babies in it.

I am a thoroughbred nut and have always been one -- too costly an avocation and our partner marrying an animal hater, killed the partnership and ALL of our financial security.

My daughter and I watch TVG every weekend, but don't bet. I occasionally hit the track when a friend's horse if running, but he has been out with a soft tissue issue for a while. He should be out at Del Mar before it closes.

Our saddest experience at the Ranch was the loss (due to ineptitude of our "ranch" vet)of our Gr I stakes winning mare after a battle to keep her alive. She had such class that when we sent her to Jungleland (or the equivalent) she lay down in the ratty trailer that was "sent for her" and realized that this was not the way she was accustomed to traveling. She stood up so proudly as they left the ranch that we all (my husband, kids, our partner -- everyone of us) cried to see her wonderful head once more towering over the trailer and ears pricked for her last adventure.

Most of the memories of that time where we shared several colts one year, and our dogs in the extensive kennel we built there are filled with joy and regrets.

But thoroughbreds will always be my passion.

Some of my immediate family is in to quarters and their mare will be bred to a Gr I Stakes winner after she foals next year. I don't know if that stud is a quarter or a thoroughbred. Soubds like we"ll be having some late night in the winter waiting for a foal. ;~)