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holding leashes attached to the
animals’ halters. “We had to
make the pool extra deep,”
Mrs. James Mimm’s is shown here with
her special pet, Bonita Wick, a brood mare
retiring from racing. Her husband is
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holding Kingsley Pleasure, a two-year-old
hopeful for the Mimm stables.
One of the tenants at the James Mimm
horse farm getting his daily workout in the
swimming pool. The trainer leads the
animal around the pool for therapeutic
exercise. A man with a dip net is a very
popular person at a swimming pool for
horses.
to this area. One is in Pittsburgh
while the other is in Rising Sun,
Maryland. Horse training by
water isn’t a new idea. Some
owners have been taking their
animals into the Chesepeake Bay
for years. Swimming pools,
though, aren’t too easy to find. In
fact, Mimm says he has a waiting,
list of customers. Most of his
tenants are regular starters at
Brandywine and Liberty Bell
race tracks, which feature
trotters and pacers rather than
thoroughbreds.
There are some throughbreads,
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farm. Besides the pool, this
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Mimm himself started raising
race horses about eight years
ago, and has had a few good
years. One horse, which cost him
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in one year of racing. One of his
current favorites is Seafield
Countess, an 8-year-old pacer
from New Zealand.
“The secret to success in
raising horses is to always have
some young animals coming
along,” Mimm says.
Horses for Mimm are actually
a hobby. When he’s not at the
horse farm, he’s a few minutes
away at the Christiana Milk
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creamery in 1928 and started his
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