Farariag, Saturday, Movaaiber t, 1990
BY SHEILA MILLER
WRIGHTSVILLE - After
over 10 years of following
and studying the Stan
dardised horse industry,
Lauxmont Farms, a 1400
acre spread located here,
has emerged as one of the
leading new names in the
race horse business.
While many of the long
established names in Penn
sylvania’s largest horse
industry are pulling up roots
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jgv appi ationai
champion pacing filly. Foliage. The top racing filly takes it easy now at her
Wrightsville home, carrying a foal sired by Bret Hanover.
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and New Jersey, Ronald
Kobr, owner and president of
the York County show place,
has decided to start into the
Standardised breeding
business.
Kohr, known throughout
the livestock industry for his
Chianina and Hereford
cattle, explained that the
move to Standardbred
horses will allow his scenic
property overlooking the
Susquehanna River to be
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His hrsl attempt to break
into the highly competitive
industry came in 1969 with
the purchase of a Tar Heel
mare at the Hamsburg sale.
“I sold her first foal and
kept the second. That’s when
I started getting serious.
“I studied the sale results
from the one held in
Harrisburg and one m
Lexington, Kentucky. And I
watched the prices of
yearling Standardbreds
the
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Lauxmont Farms makes strides in Stai
yeais. Even when the cattle
market was dropping, the
horse market kept going
higher every year.”
Kohr recalled that he first
started buying in earnest m
1978. Now, he has 91 head
roaming the pastures of his
Wnghtsville farm or in
training in Ohio, North
Carolina, and Florida.
The success of Kohr’s
horses on the track and the
effectiveness of trainers
such as Wendall Jones Jr.,
Dick Buckston, George
Sholty, and Glen Gamsey
are spelled out in a winning
way.
Last year, Jones, a former
saddlehorse trainer, took
eleven 2-year-olds to start,
and raced six, including
Armbro Vanguard, by
Speedy Crown out of a Star’s
Pride mare Sparma
Hanover; Allurement, by
Noble Gesture out of Really
Something; and Foliage, by
Race Time out of Meadow
Helene. These three horses
captured mne stakes in 1979.
Foliage went on to claim
the honors of National
Season’s Champion Pacing
Filly. In her short racing
career, Foliage set a worlds
record for pacing by racing
m 1:49.1 knocking three
seconds off the previous
record, according to Kohr.
Unfortunately, her racmg
career came to an abrupt
halt after she cracked a
sesamoid bone after a race.
She has been retired to the
pastures at Lauxmont and is
in foal to Bret Hanover. She
is booked to the popular
Niatross.
Kohr is rightfully proud of
his national champion and
his other winning Stan
dardbreds that call Laux
mont Farms home. He just
recently completed the
remodeling of the bams to
accomodate these valuable
animals.
The bam was originally
built by S. Fory Laux (after
whom the farm was named)
ki the early 1930’s to house
dairy cattle, said Kohr. It
was a loose housing setup
with automated milking, far
ahead of its time, he ex
plained. He noted that the
bam was written up in the
National Geographic
magazine in either June of
1942 or 1945.
The farm, with its hog,
sheep, dairy, and turkey
facihtes, changed hands
after the death of Laux in
1942. The second owner, Dr.
George T. Pack from New
York, had a Guernsey
operation at the farm until
1972.
During those 30 years the
facihties were allowed to
deteriorate after Pack found
farming was not a get-nch
quick enterprise, said Kohr.
He said with regret that the
doctor’s foreman did not
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have the foresight to see the
benefits of the loose housing,
and remodeled the bams
with stanchions and manure
gutters.
Now, the barns have had a
second face-lift and a cream
colored coat of new paint.
Oak boards from trees cut on
the farm have been planed,
sanded and varnished and
used for box stalls, day has
been hauled in to cover the
concrete floors. And brass
knobs adorn the iron bars
that stretch across the oak
boards.
An exercise lot and glass
fronted viewing area will
provide potential buyers a
luxurious environment to
watch the Lauxmont Farms’
yearlings run, unhampered
by lead ponies. And 22 miles
of board fence, coated with
an asphalt paint shipped m
from Kentucky, bound the
1000 acres of pasture. Kohr
noted each locust post in the
fence was cut on the farm.
Classy accomodations for
the classy horses.
In the future, Kohr said he
hopes to keep about 300
horses on thefarm.
“I’m excited about turning
this farm strictly into a
Standardbred breeding
farm. This part of the state
has always been a great area
for horses. And, in our case,
our hilly pastures are a
terrific asset because it
makes the horse exercise. ’ ’
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One stud, Tarport Adi os
will be standing it
Wrightsville, while the othei
f nizmont studs will be kepi
on the farm in New Jersey.
The reason for the New
Jersey stud farm, said Kohr,
is because the Pennsylvania
stakes are “very poor.” At
$2,100,000, the Keystone
State’s Sire Stakes fall well
below those of New York, at
$7,200,000, New Jersey, at
$7,000,000, and Ohio, at
$5,000,000.
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