How does a small horse farm owner end up in the stallion breeding business?
I asked Tracey Schork who has a small farm called Trailsend in Ann Arbor Township; a family of 3 children and a husband; several horses and ponies; and one fine stallion, the 4-yr old Holsteiner Reesling (at left), sired by the FEI dressage horse Rantares. It started with Brandy my first horse. After being tired of moving from barn to barn in search of a good facility, my parents helped me purchase a plot of land in Ann Arbor so that Brandy and I would have a home of our own. We built a barn and called it Trailsend Stable because it would be the final time Brandy would have to move. Brandy died when he was 32 and he is buried in my back yard. My promise to him is fulfilled. That’s how I came to live on this farm. Then I got into breeding when I bought a mare just to breed to a Clydesdale stallion so I could use it for hunting. Sylvia Walsh, a member at Waterloo Hunt, had a Clydesdale stallion that I bred to and the combination didn’t disappoint. The baby was wonderful and I named her L
