Management

   Owner/Manager Judith M. Barrett is originally from Surrey, England, where she grew up around horses, her father keeping hunters and jumpers.  She was working for a Polo club- at Lord Cowdray's grounds in Midhurst- in 1969, when she made her first life-altering move.

   The American Polo team came over to participate in the Gold Cup world polo tournament, and Barrett was enthralled.  Before she knew it, she had herself a job in Texas, with Will Farish's polo entourage.

   From there she became an exercise rider for Farish's trainer Del Carroll, "I galloped so many good horses during that time that I forget them all," said Barrett.  "I got on Raja Baba, Pas de Nom--all kinds of names that now show up in the pedigrees of the horses who come to my farm."

   In the early 1970's Barrett had a brief stint as a Jockey and exercise rider in Florida riding for Don Levine.  Then she settled into a routine of exercising horses for Maryland and Florida trainers, and developed a small training and breeding operation of her own.  She moved to PA in 1986.  She bought a small farm and starting racing the horses she trained in PA.

   Gradually Barrett's interest shifted from racing to breeding.  She worked in the breeding operation at Westfield Farm in Monkton, MD, for several years, and handled some foalings for Dr. William Solomon, veterinarian and proprietor of Pin Oak Lane Farm.  "The more I got into the breeding side of the business, the more I liked it," said Barrett.

   Judy then moved to Swatara Farm in 1999.  Over the next four years Judy stood 5 stallions.  The  opportunity arose, late in 2003, to move her operation to Godstone Farm. 

    "Customer service is very important to me, " said Barrett.  "I've sent plenty of mares of my own out to be bred, and I know what it's like to have them come back without getting in foal.  My goal is to get mares who are sent here in foal quickly and send them back home as soon, and as inexpensively, as possible."

   Judith Barrett is a member of the PHBA and a licensed Pennsylvania trainer, she has been a successful breeder of Pennsylvania race horses since 1986.

Veterinarian

   Dr. Joan C. Henderson of Henderson Veterinary Associates in Elizabethtown PA is our attending veterinarian.  A graduate of the University of Florida School of Veterinary Medicine, she has over 18 years of experience in the field.

   Previously she was the resident veterinarian at Almahurst of PA, a broodmare farm breeding over 300 mares a year.  Since 1987 she has been in private practice.  Her practice deals with a wide variety of equine medicine but her primary emphasis is on reproduction and foaling.

   She sports an excellent reputation throughout the Mid-Atlantic area.