Ultimate Horse Barns | 
| Author: Randy Leffingwell
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 20852
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 10.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0760324417
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.9220973
EAN: 9780760324417
ASIN: 0760324417
Publication Date: October 15, 2006
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Product Description
The love of horses often finds its expression in the horse barn-in the grandeur of the architecture, the extravagance of the detail, and the extent of the comforts that owners lavish on their favorite creatures. The masterpieces of equine architecture featured in this book attest to that devotion. With luxuries such as mahogany stalls, Spanish-tiled floors, and the latest in horse technology and training, these are not your average barns; rather, they attest to the extremes of elegant simplicity and outrageous glamour that convey a horse owners devotion, ambition, and style.
From prestigious and well-known horse barns such as Churchill Downs to private stables nestled in the Colorado mountains, Ultimate Horse Barns comprises a wide variety of barns certain to pique any horse owners fancy. Twenty North American barns in all, each one of a kind, they all have one thing in common-the love, appreciation, and awe of the horses they house.
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Horse Enthusiasts Will Love it! April 4, 2007
Marina Kushner (SCR Books)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This pictorial gem makes a great gift for the horse-lover in your life. The photographs are absolutely breathtaking.
Wow March 9, 2007
Dana M. Manar
This book has some pretty great pictures! Definitely a great gift for any horse lover that dreams of having their own barn.
Read cover to cover January 22, 2007
K. Cok (Michigan)
I live, breathe horses. Ever since the age of 2, when I rode my first horse I have been as they say "horse crazy". I ride horses alot for 4-H and for my school's Equestrian Team and when I saw this book in my Horse Illistrated Magazine and instintly wanted to get it. I looked online for it and found it on its original website, but I didn't want to pay the full price. I searched around an found the best deal here on Amazon.com I read the book cover to cover and still constintally (sp?) look at it. Its a dream of mine to open my own horse barn someday and this book has been a real instiration and a enjoyable book for me!
Ultimate Horse Barns January 18, 2007
K. Hicks (Toronto, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a lover of horses and pictoral books on design, I have been looking for this type of book on horse barns for quite some time. This book contains a well thought out range of historic and new equine related buildings that have been beautifully photographed. The descriptive passages relating to each property give a very personal and charming look at the development, building process and use of the buildings. My interest in the book was primarily in the photographs which are not over powered by the text. I have purchased a number of other books on the subject but they do not compare to the quality of this publication. For horse lovers, would be barn builders and lovers of unique architecture, I highly recommend "Ultimate Horse Barns".
Spectacular Accommodations for Prize Horses January 3, 2007
John Matlock (Winnemucca, NV)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
And I thought that people spent a lot of money on houses. Then again, with horses of the caliber being housed here, I suppose the cost of the Ultimate Horse Barns being shown here isn't significant after all. You could build nearly any of them for say $4 to $5 million. Needless to say these are not little sheds just to keep the horse out of the rain.
The buildings included here range from new construction to buildings that are well over a hundred years old. Many of these buildings are part of institutions such as the University of Vermont, the Kiwanis Club of West Toronto. Some belonged to the rich and famous, such as Vanderbilt. Some are working horse farms, but with a specialty in breeding or training high end horses.
Note though that these are working barns. There are horses here, horses being groomes, trained, or like 'Bailey' on page 125 looking out of his stall as if to say, 'OK, it's morning, where's my breakfast.'
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