Field Trip to...

the FAB-u-lous Three Chimneys Farm Specifically, the Stud Barns

Home to The Magnificent....

Pictured in a tranquil moment is the stallion Manager at Three Chimneys, Sandy. Sandy, being female, is rarity in the breeding shed. Her credentials are impeccable and not even backward thinking ornery men can shake a twitch at her abilities and know-how. She's a wonder. And they all know it! You GO girl!!	To the right is Cheyenne the ever patient, ever-ready teaser stallion for the studs at Three Chimneys. He's a chestnut pinto, and who knows maybe he's a paint. One thing fer sure is, he's ready to step up to the plate should any of the high falutin' boys be unable to 'perform'. Until then, he seems willing to check out The Ladies as they make their way through the breeding matrix over there on Old Frankfort Pike.   "Yo, Lay-Dees!"
Snowball is a unique individual (note his eyes) who's in charge of de-mousing the 6 stall stud barn filled with umpteen millions of dollars of horseflesh. Good Kitty!	Smarty Jones' Stud Stablemate: the pensive Sky Mesa
	Everything that happens at Three Chimneys, and many other farms in the inner bluegrass is directed toward the live covers demanded by the Jockey Club. Live covers are breeding arrangements carefully arranged and tended to by handy horse professionals in the interest of folks with scads of money with an aim towards creating foals as good as or even better than their parents at zipping around an oval track that's about a mile long. It is important to the preservation of this industry such as it is to keep thoroughbreds pure and limit the number of foals produced for registry each season. Thus things are done sort of the way they've always been done and a stallion impregnates a mare himself when she's ready under the close care of an assortment of fearless handlers. Sometimes a farm houses such breeding studs as to warrant building a sort of cathedral to the process like the one they have at Three Chimneys. It's as safe as it can be, and gorgeous to help support the value placed on this particular exchange. And so mares are vanned in when their absolutely ready to be bred (Cheyenne personally checks each one) and the appropriately paid for stallion is walked in after some necessary equine hygiene is taken care of and 'nature takes it's handheld course'. In about 340 days the mare births what all involved hope is the next Derby winner. For her owner, the activity pictured here will cost anywhere from tens of to hundreds of thousands of dollars just as soon as that new foal stands and nurses.

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