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Published September 29, 2006 04:58 pm - Debra Shone can walk through the stables at Solitaire Farm and the horses will stick their heads through the stall doors and nicker to get her attention.
Managing a horse farm is not an easy job
Solitaire: One of the largest breeding horse farms in the U.S.
By GINA KINSLOW
Glasgow Daily Times
GLASGOW
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Debra Shone can walk through the stables at Solitaire Farm and the horses will stick their heads through the stall doors and nicker to get her attention.
The horses know Debra keeps “horse cookies” in her pockets, and hope to be fed one as she walks by.
“These are my babies,” she says as she feeds one horse a cookie with one hand while scratching his neck with the other.
Debra is manager of the farm, which is owned by her parents, Tom and Sue Shone.
Located in the Lucas community of Barren County, it is one of the largest horse breeding farms in the state and home to about 90 horses, a whole bunch of dogs, a couple of cats, one duck, one rabbit and one goat.
Tom and Sue bought the farm in 1971.
“Sue said she married me because I said I would buy her a horse,” Tom said.
The Shones started out small. All three of their children, Debra, Julie and Matt, grew up around horses and participated in 4-H events. But it was Debra they couldn’t keep out of the barn.
In fact, when she was a girl she would go out to the barn to be with the horses before eating breakfast. To Debra, horses came first above everything else.
“She would actually make herself sick,” Tom said.
So, one summer Tom and Sue decided to send her to stay with relatives for a while.
“They deported me to Florida for a week,” Debra said.
She went on to major in business and equine science at Williams Woods University in Fulton, Mo., and came back to Lucas to run the family farm.
Managing a horse farm is no easy job.
A variety of horses are raised on the farm, including Arabian, Tennessee Walking, saddle bred, quarter horse, paint and miniature.
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