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THE BLOOD-HORSE ■ MAY 19, 2001 2983 One small breeder sits on pins and needles, and wonders if he can stay in business Empty Feeling I t is an idyllic setting, on display at hundreds of horse farms throughout Central Kentucky: A narrow lane lined with pine trees curves among a dozen paddocks. Canadian geese fly overhead and birds sing, buoyed by the warm morning sun. Inside the fences at Milestone Farm, mares cavort with foals at their sides; their long, graceful necks arch down to munch the famous Bluegrass, unaware that the famed food source is likely causing the death of their fetuses and foals. Forty-three-year-old John O’Meara is all too aware of what’s going on. He has leased the farm just outside Lexington some four years, and the BY LENNY SHULMAN CRISIS CRISIS FoalLoss Small Breeder’s View ANNE M. EBERHARDT PHOTOS Copyright©2001, The Blood-Horse. Reprinted with permission of copyright owner.
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T H E B L O O D - H O R S E ■ M ay 1 9 , 2 0 0 1 2983
One small breeder sits on pins and needles, and wonders if he can stay in business
Empty FeelingI
t is an idyllic setting, on display at hundreds of horse farms throughout Central Kentucky: A narrow lane lined with pine trees curves among a dozen paddocks. Canadian geese fly
overhead and birds sing, buoyed by the warm morning sun. Inside the fences at Milestone Farm, mares cavort with foals at their sides; their long,
graceful necks arch down to munch the famous Bluegrass, unaware that the famed food source is likely causing the death of their fetuses and foals.
Forty-three-year-old John O’Meara is all too aware of what’s going on. He has leased the farm just outside Lexington some four years, and the
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Copyright©2001, The Blood-Horse. Reprinted with permission of copyright owner.
