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Besides catch riding for other owners, Jocelyn
Martin will compete with her own mount, Bodine, a
warmblood crossbred, in hunter competition this
year at Devon. Photo by Michelle Kunjappu
Getting To Devon From
The Rider’s Perspective
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU Although she has a crimi-
Lancaster Farming Staff nology degree from Mm .
DENVER (Lancaster Co.) ersville University, her first
-Jocelyn Martin has worked uit is her with
in her career of choice since
she was bom. (Turn to Page El 8)
Haflingers: All-Around Family Pony In A Pretty Package
The Haflinger mare flanked by two foals, above, and the stallion pictured at
right are part of the herd at Spring View Farm, Centre County. At right Abraham
Allebach, 3, has made a friend in “Turbo,” a current national champion.
Photos by Michelle
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2003
Local Farmers Feed World-Class
Horses At Hanover Shoe Farms
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
HANOVER (Adams Co.)
Traveling on roads south and
west of Hanover, you can’t
miss the horse pastures
about 3,000 acres worth, en
closed by some 240 miles of
board fence.
Four hundred standardbred
broodmares, hundreds of
young horses, and a number
of stud stallions have their
home here.
Feeding and bedding the
horses takes 1,150 tons of hay
and 1,200 tons of straw a year,
all of which is purchased from
local farms. The horses also
consume about 47,000 bushels
of oats and 750 tons of per
formance feed per year.
Hanover Shoe Farms deals
with 80 local businesses, feeds
hay from 25 local farms, and
employs about 100 people.
That adds up to a huge im
pact on the local economy, not
to mention the preservation of
agricultural land in the area.
According to Ed Sponseller,
operations and maintenance
supervisor, keeping a close re
lationship with the local ag
and business community is a
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Craig Arentz of Littlestown, right, delivers about
120,000 bales of hay and straw per year to Hanover
Shoe Farms. Arentz, along with two brothers and fa
ther Vernon “Butch” Arentz, grow much of the hay
themselves and also deliver hay from about 25 other
farms in the area. Here, Steve Allison helps Arentz
unload bales Of timothy. Photos by Dave Lefever
A standardbred mare with her day-old foal out in
a paddock at Hanover Shoe Farms.
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU new arrivals to the U.S., the
Lancaster Farming Staff honey-colored Haflinger po-
BELLEFONTE (Centre nies are already sought after
Co.) The petite blonde foals for their quiet temperament
frolicking around the pasture and versatihty.
may look like small Belgians, f. . kree d 18
but as these babies grow to full marke <! fy athleticism and a
•stature thev reveal that thev con B emal disposition, however
stature, they reveal that they they are perhaps most recog .
are a different breed altogeth- n i za ble for their unique color-
' 'Although' 'they • are 'feirly • ■ * rn t 0 ** a ® 6 El<^