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Breeding farm business brisk -1 7 --t 4. iu-- and Maywood parks in Chicago, and the Illinois State Fair. Usually trotters are bred to trotters and pacers to pacers. Trotters run with a baby crawl left front and right rear legs together and vice versa. Pacers are faster and do not step as high.

They run with left legs together, right legs together. Yates, in partnership with his mother and brother, now owns three stallions. At the height of the breeding season, the farm houses anywhere from 250 to 300 brood mares to be foaled. Breeding attempts usually begin in late February and end in mid July. "Weather has a lot to do with breeding because the animals do not respond as well to each other in extreme cold," Yates said.

The season is also determined by the racing rule that all foals turn into yearlings Jan. 1. Because it takes about 11 months for a foal to be born, any conceived after July would only be about 6 months old in January By PAM LEWIS Pantograph staff TOWANDA You'd think there would be a lot of horsing around on a horse breeding farm, but in this day and age, the business is too scientific and horses too valuable for that to happen. Motorists traveling near Towanda on Interstate 55 can'; help but view such a business, but are only able to see dozens of beautiful mares and their foals grazing on 250 acres. What they don't see is the bookwork, testing and time it takes to successfully produce those foals that may someday harness race and win big money for their owners.

The Reed-Yates Farm was founded by William and Mabel Yates in 1953. Yates died in 1964 and his wife took the reins until about 10 years ago, and now son, Don Yates, is in the driver's seat. Only Standardbred race horses are handled at the farm. Standards can either become "trotters" or "pacers." They are trained by the time they reach 2 years old, hooked to sulkies and raced at places like Sportsman Pantayraph photOPAM LEWIS Don Yates with foal Evita Reed and dam Sweet Helane. The inside story on a new combine that lets you harvest more of what you grow See HORSE, next page ARMSTRONG HYBRID SEED CO.

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