Claiborne Farm Virtual Stallion Tour

carole · Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:16 am

Claiborne Farm 15h ago
@claibornefarm
Since we're not able to welcome you to the farm, we hope you'll welcome us into your home! TOMORROW at 10 AM we're going LIVE on Instagram to do a VIRTUAL STALLION TOUR with one of our grooms. We hope you'll join us then!

Someone commented they couldn’t be online at that time and Claiborne responded with this:
It will stay up on Instagram for 24 hours after recording.

Awesome idea!

Flanders · Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:33 am

They forgot they said they were going to do this I guess or it never showed they were live streaming to me. Anyone watch it?

carole · Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:56 am

Flanders wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:33 am They forgot they said they were going to do this I guess or it never showed they were live streaming to me. Anyone watch it?

It’s up on their Instagram account currently, says it was streamed 1 hour ago.

JohannaSwe · Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:59 am

It was great! They showed the barns and several stallions, loved seeing my favourite Catholic Boy.

Mylute · Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:10 pm

I caught the tail end of it and then went back and watched the whole thing.

They showed Don Julio the teaser at the end (who made a point of running up for attention) and Algorithms booped the camera. Another interesting tidbit is that Catholic Boy is slated to be in Secretariat's paddock. Also War Front ran up and was very talkative.

Flanders · Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:48 pm

Yeah was my own fault. I thought I'd be able to watch on my PC but had to watch on my tablet.

Mylute · Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:51 pm

It would be neat if they did another one with foals.

carole · Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:21 pm

Just watching the live now, it's interesting to see how much they believe in Runhappy, it really sounds like they think he'll be the next big thing. I wonder if anyone on here has seen in person or owns a Runhappy foal? Do you guys think they will make a big splash this year?

starrydreamer · Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:40 pm

Mylute wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:10 pm I caught the tail end of it and then went back and watched the whole thing.

They showed Don Julio the teaser at the end (who made a point of running up for attention) and Algorithms booped the camera. Another interesting tidbit is that Catholic Boy is slated to be in Secretariat's paddock. Also War Front ran up and was very talkative.

I plan on watching it tonight after my child goes to sleep.

Can't wait to see my boy, War Front.

BaroqueAgain1 · Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:05 pm

Could someone provide a link...please? Thanks.

carole · Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:09 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:05 pm Could someone provide a link...please? Thanks.

You have to go to the Instagram app and search up @claibornefarm, on their story you can see the livestream.

Calypso · Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:33 pm

I got in around 10 minutes into it and loved it. It was really well executed, the tour guide was wonderful and whoever was filming it was definitely right on the money! Fantastic idea, I hope it catches on!

Flanders · Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:10 pm

Calypso wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:33 pm I got in around 10 minutes into it and loved it. It was really well executed, the tour guide was wonderful and whoever was filming it was definitely right on the money! Fantastic idea, I hope it catches on!

I saw Taylor Made applauding the idea and said they were looking into doing it as well.

TwilightTear · Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:25 pm

Claiborne just posted the recording to their Facebook account. It's not ideal in that format given the screen size, but if you missed or want to see it again, it's an option.

starrydreamer · Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:32 pm

TwilightTear wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:25 pm Claiborne just posted the recording to their Facebook account. It's not ideal in that format given the screen size, but if you missed or want to see it again, it's an option.

Oh awesome! I had checked Instagram earlier this morning and it was already gone.

TwilightTear · Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:47 pm

Mylute wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:51 pm It would be neat if they did another one with foals.

Your wish is Claiborne's command. Check out their Facebook page.

Foaling Barn - March 24
Mares & Foals, and Marchmont Cemetery - March 31
Retired Mares & Aftercare - April 7

Lane's End is also doing a stallion barn tour on March 23 on Instagram & a shuttle tour on FB on March 25.

Honor Code · Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:00 pm

As a person stuck on the west coast....

Mylute · Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:34 pm

Mill Ridge did one today and I caught it afterwards. Showed off basically the entire farm. From memory, they showed~

Dance to Bristol, who is due to foal soon (i/f to Candy Ride)
Never Give Up, who foaled a baby by Empire Maker this morning at 3 AM
Wine N Dyne and her Oscar Performance colt she's very protective of
Sweet Assay, who was recently scanned in foal to Oscar Performance (barren last year)
Oscar Performance himself, who covered Miss Chapin this afternoon

Also showed the older yearlings and the nanny (retired) mares pastured with them. Guide said the name of one of the mares but I couldn't understand him due to the wind. Sharp Act, or something like that maybe? They're also going to do more livestreams, they said.

They said that Miss Chapin is named after the girls' Chapin School in New York, and they chose that name because it sounds very floofy and high society (reflecting her parents' names) and Never Give Up was named that because she had a really bad hock infection as a youngster and they did not know if she would survive. That's why she never raced.

Modern Renaissance · Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:58 pm

TwilightTear wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:47 pm
Mylute wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:51 pm It would be neat if they did another one with foals.
Your wish is Claiborne's command. Check out their Facebook page.

Foaling Barn - March 24
Mares & Foals, and Marchmont Cemetery - March 31
Retired Mares & Aftercare - April 7

Lane's End is also doing a stallion barn tour on March 23 on Instagram & a shuttle tour on FB on March 25.

Retired Mares! That's great.

carole · Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:37 am

Stonestreet will be doing a live tour of their foaling nursery on Facebook on Friday at 2pm and on Instagram Saturday at 2pm.

If you want to see all the information about tours, go to the @visithorsecountry Instagram account, they have it all in their stories. Spendthrift and Taylor Made will also be hosting lives.

I love these!