Keeneland Magazine

SPRING 2015

Keeneland, Investing in Racing's Future since 1936.

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REQUIRED By Lenny Shulman / Photos by Bill Luster NO CHANGE Clarkland Farm's no-frills approach has yielded an impressive record in the Keeneland sales arena H ere's all you need to know about Nancy and Fred Mitchell, the proprietors of Clarkland Farm near Lexington: After selling a yearling for $1.1 million at the 2014 Keeneland September auction, they celebrated by buying a used horse trailer, a manure spreader, and a hay baler. "Well, we needed a new hay baler," said Fred Mitchell. "The one we had was 20 years old." There are no fancy cupolas on the Clarkland buildings; no newfangled horse walkers or swimming pools or elaborate gates or barns that look like four-star hotels. All Clarkland has to boast is good old-fashioned horsemanship practiced by Fred, Nancy, Nancy's daughter Marty Buckner, and Marty's husband, Matt "Ernie" Ernst.

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