LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Seventeen professional stables in eastern Pennsylvania will open their doors to the public for two days. Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29, during the sixth annual Pennsylvania Horse Farms Open House. The event, which is free, is a chance for would-be equestrians to visit some of Pennsylvania’s most beautiful horse farms, to learn about breeds of horses, styles of riding, and breeding, raising, caring for and training horses, and to explore the many opportunities for becoming in volved with horses right in their own backyards. The tour, pro duced by Pennsylvania Eques trian, is free and self-guided, and individuals travel from stable to stable at their own pace in their own cars. Hours are 10 to 4 on Saturday, noon to 4 on Sunday. With more than 174,000 horses, Pennsylvania ranks fourth in the US far ahead of Kentucky—in generation of income from the horse industry. Pennsylvanians spend nearly two-thirds of a bil lion dollars annually on their hors es. and most of that is spent in the southeastern quadrant of the state, where the Open House is centered. The stables participating in the Open House include breeds, disci plines, and activities that bridged the spectrum of Pennsylvania’s horse industry. Nationally-known show stables, breeding farms, a riding club and horse show grounds, a clinic devoted to equine veterinary care, and fami ly-run boarding operations are among the stables welcoming visi tors for tours, demonstrations, education and fun. The one thing all have in common is that they of fer services to the equestrian pub lic. Nearly anything that can be done with a horse will be de- ARMPPA Sets Two Meetings The American Raw Milk Pro ducers Pricing Association has announced two informational meetings for the third week in March, both to start at 12 noon. On Monday, March 16, a meet ing will be held at the Springville Fire Hall, Springville. Springville is located approximately halfway between Tunkhannock and Mon trose on Route 29. In case of snow, the meeting will be held Thursday, March 19. On Wednesday, March 18, a meeting will be held at the Wya lusing Fire Hall, Wyalusing. Wya lusing Fire Hall is located off Route 6 on the street next to the Dandy Mini Mart. In case at snow the meeting will be Friday, March 20. Officials will explain the associ ation and answer any questions. For more information contact ARMPPA at 1-888-276-7720. Pennsylvani monstrated during the open house. Reining, dressage, cutting, hunt seat and saddle seat equitation, jumping, western pleasure, show manship, yoga on horseback, and driving demonstrations are among those scheduled by participating farms. In addition, horse shoeing, braiding, equine massage and chiropractic, nutrition, and foal imprinting will be demonstrated, and tack shops, equine artists and jewelers and other vendors will have displays, A musical quadrille composed of both able-boddied and handicapped riders will per form at one stable, another will have a foxhunting exhibit featur ing the hounds. Master of Fox hounds and members of the 128-year-old Kimberton Hunt At some stables visitors can take a pony ride or carriage ride, at others visitors who reserve in ad vance can try a short introductory riding lesson. One stable will have games for children, another a pet ting zoo. The majority of stables will have horses for sale and many will have young foals for visitors to meet Breeds of horses represented range from the common thor oughbred, quarter horse. Paint Palomino, American Saddlebred, Arabian, and warmblood, to the exotic Thoroughdales, a new registry of thoroughbrcd/Clydes dale crosses used mainly for jumping; Lusitanos, a breed native to Portugal bred for bull-fighting; and Gaited Mountain Horses, stur dy, easy riding mounts native to the Appalachian foothills rtf North Carolina and Kentucky. Many stables offer refresh- Pennsylvania Horse Farms Open House, 1998 Participating Stables .ancaster Count Jon Douglas Stable at Manor View Farm, 2124 Gamber Road, Washington Boro, PA 17582 (717) 871-0424 Training, lessons, American Saddlebred and Morgan horses Brownstonc Farm 290 Dead End Road. Liotz, PA 17543 (717) 626-4162 Boarding, hunt and stock seat lessons, quarter horses Foal's Paradise Farm, 531 Springville Rd, Ephrata, PA 17522 (717) 733-0181 Breeding Dutch Warmbloods, boarding and training for dressage horses Windy Hill Farm, 737 Webster Hill Road, Lititz, PA 17543 (717)627-1210 Breeding and sales of Palomino quarter horses, English and western lessons, boarding and training Red Rose Paint Farm, 1132 Pieffcr Hill Road, Stevens, PA 17578 (717)336-4146 Lessons, breeding, sales of registered Paint horses Foxficld Farm, 230 Hobonan Road, Reinholds, PA 17569 (717) 484-2250 Hunter/jumper, e\entmg, dressage, thoroughbreds, warmbloods Lebanon Count Penn Paddock Equine Center, 360 Palmyra-Bellcgrovc Rd, Annville, PA 17003 (717) 838-6689 Equine veterinary hospital and surgical facility Oak Crest Arabians, 901 North College St, (Route 501), Myerstown, PA 17067 (717) 866- 5558 Breeding and sales of registered Arabian horses Quentin Riding Club, Routes 72 and 419, Quentin, PA (717) 273-7811 Showgrounds is home to sixteen major horse shows each year, also a private club with boarding facilities for members tucks Counl Beau Chevaux Farm, 90 Eagle Road, Newtown, PA 18940 (215)860-8533 Boarding, training, English and western lessons Equestrian Education, Inc 1185 Hohcong Road, PincvrUc, PA 18946 (215)598-8693 English lessons, training for eventing and dressage, thoroughbreds, boarding Interagro Farm, 1353 Holicong Road, New Hope. PA 18938 (215)794-9076 Brazilian breeder of Lusitano horses jerks Counl Abbott’s Quarter Horses. 193 Pine Forge Rd, Boycrtown, PA 19572 (610) 326-2842 Quarter horse breeding and sales Spnnghill Farm, 973 Shenkel Road, Potlstown, PA 19465 (610) 326-8077 Boarding, training, dressage, hunt seat and eventing lessons, foxhunting lontgomerv Coi Fun-E Farm, Inc, at Montgomery County 4-H Center, Route 113, Creamery, PA (610) 584- 1356 Perrv Countv Windy Ridge Acres, RR 5 Box 595, Newport, PA 17074 (717) 444-2555 Trail nding, training, boarding, hunt seat and western lessons, sales, breeding Thoroughdale horses Dauohtn Counl Double-D Stables, 1265 Mapledale Road, Elizabethtown, PA 17022 (717) 367-2053 Breeding and sales of registered Paint horses, foal impnoting a Horse Farms Open Doors To Visitors Complete information and maps are published with this arti cle. Prospective visitors can write Pennsylvania Equestrian at P.O. Box 8412, Lancaster, PA 17604, phone (717) 898-5874, fax (717) 898-1458 or e-mail PAEquest@ad.com. ments. Some are provided by the local 4-H or youth group raising money for attending horse shows. One stable has its own coffee shop, another will feature a cap puccino bar. Sic of the stables are in Lancas ter County, three each are in Leba non and Bucks counties, two in Berks County, and one each is in Dauphin, Montgomery, and Perry counties. Lancaster County Map (81/ Pann Paddock Equina Canter • Palmyra' H* r * h *y/322 1 Lebanon County Map Bucks County Map (Interagro \ Firm J Berks County Map Nawtown V^^ ivlll*
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