Welcome to my world, I’m Lyra Miller proprietor of The Guesthouse at Rosecrest Farm and Lil’s Coffee House and all round helpmate for Rosecrest Farm. I love my world and sharing it with friends via The Guesthouse and Lil’s. They in turn have encouraged me to share it more widely via a blog, so here we are!

 

Our First Three Babies

Our First Three Babies

We hope 2023 has had a good start for you.  I know it seems wherever you live the weather has been crazy and unpredictable.  I hope you’ve weathered all the storms!  We’ve had our share of bad wind but I’ll get to that later, we are having babies….three...

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Out with the Old, In with the New

Out with the Old, In with the New

It’s 2023 and for the moment we have no babies on the farm.  As you know, January 1st is the official birthday for all Thoroughbreds, so the youngest horses on the farm are yearlings and the oldest is Tinner’s Storm at 23.  Tinner is looking great, even his...

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It’s Fall

It’s Fall

It’s October and it not only feels like fall but also looks like fall.  The leaves are starting to turn, the horses are filling the barns at Keeneland for the fall race meet and the spiders are creating their lacey artwork on the fences.  Lacey artwork of...

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IT’S A WRAP

IT’S A WRAP

The Preakness is over and it was a good win for Early Voting, a son of Gun Runner.  His trainer’s decision not to run him in the Kentucky Derby proved to be a good one.  Speaking of the Kentucky Derby…..WOW!  What a race, Rich Strike with Sonny Leon...

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It’s March and the Madness has started.

It’s March and the Madness has started.

The starting 5 are on the ground and the 7 players yet to arrive will be produced by the mares watching at left. Mares will, as we all know, produce the added players when they are darn well ready! We’ve had five babies so far and the mares have been very considerate...

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