the big horses raised here, Point Given and
Giacomo and Havre De Grace and all the
rest; or the horses sold from here; or the
generations of insight condensed by Alice
and her husband, Dr John Chandler.
Not this time, though. Today is not really
about Mill Ridge at all—except as a snap-
shot of the way Bluegrass breeders are re-
sponding to a challenge that could not be
more literally concrete than in the suburban
gardens pressing right against their farm
boundary.
With Headley nowadays sitting on the
Lexington Planning Commission, he allows
his son to lead the way in presenting Horse
Country—an inspiring example of rival
farms working together—as an ideal mech-
anism for flinging open the gates that previ-
ously divided rural and urban communities
here. Matching fluency of thought and word
with a breadth of perspective (extending to
an MBA) rare in the Bluegrass heartland,
