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GINGER SECRET MYERS
Staff Correspondent
McKNIGHTSTOWN - Nine
years ago Larry “L. 8.” Orndorff
and his wife Regina, Pine Valley
Ranch, bought a registered
Belgian filly and a grade Belgian
Stallion. That was when they
caught the “fever”.
“Belgian horse fever” that is
and as the Orndorff family
prepares to exhibit their prize
winning equine beauties at the 1982
Farm Show for the sixth year, it is
evident to anyone who talks with
L.B. that their fever has never
cooled off.
Larry “L. 8.” Orndorff,' left, and horse
trainer Ken Reid, right, take a pair of Pine
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L. 8., his sons Brad and Richard,
and a horse training associate Ken
Reid of Hanover, have been busy
for weeks preparing the three
mares and' three stallions that
make up the Omdorffs show
string. TTiey have been groomed
daily and taught to lead and pose
properly for the show. Corrective
hoof trimming and shoeing has all
been done in advance of the
competition.
Mrs. Orndorff has been busy
getting the show equipment in
shape and preparing all the
decorative ribbon used to braid the
horses’ manes and tails all this
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in preparation for their, trip to
Harrisburg on Friday and the
horse judging competition next
Monday.
Although son Bradley will be
showing for a neighboring farm.
Pheasant Hollow Farm, L.B. says
that he doesn’t really mind. You
see, L.B. sold Pheasant Valley'
Farm their entire showstring
including a filly “Sherrie” who
was Grand Champion Filly at the
1981 Expo plus six of his 1981 foals,
all by his own breeding.
Says L. 8., “Actually the better
they do, the better we do since it all
promotes our breeding stock. And,
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Orndorffs L.B. is expecting six foals all sired by Sonny later
this spring.
since all the animals are related
we can combine our entries and get
into more of the group classes.”
Next year the Orndorffs say they
hope to have enough-horses to
enter a six-horse hitch team plus
individual class entries. ,
As to why the Orndorffs exhibit
at the Farm Show, L.B. quite
emphatically puts it, “There’s no
money in showing. In fact my wife
figures that it will cost us close to
$7OO for the week including tran
sportation, meal and such for the
family and horses. But, it’s fun and
you meet a lot of nice people. It’s
sort of like our vacation.”
' It’s also good advertising. Orn
dorff who sells almost exclusively
by private treaty finds that the
Farm Show brings in buyers from
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helps the grade horse sales
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Says Orndorff; • ‘We receive v
for horses all year long. They see
our name in the Pa. Draft Horse
Journal or at Farm Show and they
call us or just stop in.
"It’s amazing how horse'prices
have gone up in spite of the
economy. Horses that were selling
for $1,600 seven years ago are now
bringing around $7,000 a piece. The
demand for quality breeding stock
is high and if you can’t sell them
around here, just take them west to
Ohio or lowa and they snatch them
right up.”
Although L.B. buys and sells
horses and livestock for other
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