5 GENERATIONS OF EXPERIENCE
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS
OVER 90% PREGNANCY RATE
EXPERT HORSEMEN ON DEDICATED WATCH
Located
in the heart of the Bluegrass, our farmland boasts up to 20 feet of
prized Maury Silt loam topsoil. Our fields and paddocks are either
spring or well fed with naturally chemical free water. The top Kentucky
breeders of the "golden age" said that the best horses were raised on
the best soil with the highest quality water. We raise all our own
alfalfa hay and bed our stalls on the top quality bluegrass also
harvested at Millford. This offers an unequaled environment for the
finest care of thoroughbreds. Combined with Millford's expert horsemen
on dedicated watch, you're assured a smooth and professional boarding
experience.
A Tradition of Success
Telephone: 859-846-4705 Fax: 859-846-4226
PO Box 4351
377 Weisenberger Mill Road
Midway, KY 40347
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Telephone: 859-846-4705 Fax: 859-846-4226
HISTORY
Waterford Farm was in Kathryn West's family since the 1880's. It was originated by her grandfather, the very prominent Henry L. Martin Sr. He and his father, Jesse Martin, were Confederate cavalry officers during the Civil War. Both were captured and were lucky enough to be repatriated in a prisoner exchange. Jesse Martin rejoined the fight and walked home from Appomattox after the defeat of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. After the war, Henry and Jesse Martin began an extremely successful mule breeding business which afforded them the opportunity to purchase the land that was to become the basis for the 750 acres of Waterford Farm.
In the 1980s, Dr. and Mrs. R. Smiser West's Waterford Farm became a premier commercial breeding operation that catered to the industry's top international clientele, including Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Firestone, H.H. The Aga Khan, Egon Weinfeld, Corbin Robertson and Eclipse Award winning breeder, Mrs. Henry D. Paxson. During that era, the farm's boarded bloodstock included such greats as FANFRELUCHE, BOLD N DETERMINED, GENUINE RISK, DARARA, MOON GLITTER, MOVIE GOER, OPTIMISTIC GAL, CANDYS BEST, COUNTLESS TIMES, REIGNING COUNTESS, COUNTESS FAGER, MILLIGRAM, MASARIKA, SHARAYA, TAKE WARNING, TABA and many, many others too numerous to mention. Any student of the breed will remember fondly these great champions and Grade I producers, each with a fascinating story behind them.
Together, Dr. West and Mack Miller sold numerous multi-million dollar yearlings when doing so was quite rare. One such yearling was the special, record-priced DE LA ROSE. After gaining many years of valuable experience at Waterford Farm, Dr. West's son, Bob, began his own Millford Farm, a commercial operation bordering Waterford on three sides.
Millford Farm has been extremely successful in its own right at one point in the 1990's being a top ten Kentucky breeding farm in percentage of stakes winners from horses sold. Such graded stakes winners as Reneesgotzip, multiple graded stakes winner and Breeders Cup placed, Testa Matta one of Tapit's leading money earners , and multiple graded stakes winners Miss Golden Circle and Latour, were all bred and sold by Millford Farm.
Waterford Farm was in Kathryn West's family since the 1880's. It was originated by her grandfather, the very prominent Henry L. Martin Sr. He and his father, Jesse Martin, were Confederate cavalry officers during the Civil War. Both were captured and were lucky enough to be repatriated in a prisoner exchange. Jesse Martin rejoined the fight and walked home from Appomattox after the defeat of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. After the war, Henry and Jesse Martin began an extremely successful mule breeding business which afforded them the opportunity to purchase the land that was to become the basis for the 750 acres of Waterford Farm.
In the 1980s, Dr. and Mrs. R. Smiser West's Waterford Farm became a premier commercial breeding operation that catered to the industry's top international clientele, including Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Firestone, H.H. The Aga Khan, Egon Weinfeld, Corbin Robertson and Eclipse Award winning breeder, Mrs. Henry D. Paxson. During that era, the farm's boarded bloodstock included such greats as FANFRELUCHE, BOLD N DETERMINED, GENUINE RISK, DARARA, MOON GLITTER, MOVIE GOER, OPTIMISTIC GAL, CANDYS BEST, COUNTLESS TIMES, REIGNING COUNTESS, COUNTESS FAGER, MILLIGRAM, MASARIKA, SHARAYA, TAKE WARNING, TABA and many, many others too numerous to mention. Any student of the breed will remember fondly these great champions and Grade I producers, each with a fascinating story behind them.
Together, Dr. West and Mack Miller sold numerous multi-million dollar yearlings when doing so was quite rare. One such yearling was the special, record-priced DE LA ROSE. After gaining many years of valuable experience at Waterford Farm, Dr. West's son, Bob, began his own Millford Farm, a commercial operation bordering Waterford on three sides.
Millford Farm has been extremely successful in its own right at one point in the 1990's being a top ten Kentucky breeding farm in percentage of stakes winners from horses sold. Such graded stakes winners as Reneesgotzip, multiple graded stakes winner and Breeders Cup placed, Testa Matta one of Tapit's leading money earners , and multiple graded stakes winners Miss Golden Circle and Latour, were all bred and sold by Millford Farm.