Aledo, TX 76008(Parker County)

The world-class training facility is unmatched. The indoor riding arena is 300 feet by 140 feet in a building that includes a top-of-the-line sound system, convenient viewing areas, tractor parking, equipment storage areas and a half bath. Just behind the indoor arena lies a fully lighted outdoor arena. The twenty-two stall main barn features amenities that make life a dream for humans and horses alike, boasting two wash stalls with in-floor and overhead radiant heat, a commercial scale laundry room, two stall bedding storage rooms and two feed storage rooms. The barn also features a large tack-up area and spacious tack room with an adjacent lighted porte-cochere that makes trailer loading a breeze. There is a fully equipped vet exam area with stocks and ample medical supply storage. During the warmest months of the year large fans over the aisles and stalls, watering systems, and an automatic fly control system keep everyone comfortable. This barn also houses the complex's main office with adjoining conference room and efficiency kitchen. Rounding out this central barn area is a custom European-style equisizer with overhead lights and fans.

A separate twelve-stall breeding barn provides state-of-the-art accommodations for mare and foal, but could be easily adapted for a number of stabling uses. Each stall has a 60 foot individual run, is equipped with automatic watering units inside and out, and can be converted to house up to 24 horses. The mare barn also features its own office and bathroom, indoor and outdoor wash stalls and grooming areas, a tack room, spacious vet lab, and a breeding room equipped with paired stocks for treating mares and their babies safely.

A separate hydrotherapy barn houses an underwater treadmill providing state-of-the-art equine rehabilitation and conditioning. This barn is complete with two rubber-floored wash racks, an interior holding stall, ample tying stations, overhead radiant heat and overhead fans. Two separate isolation stalls in this barn offer a safe place to quarantine horses should the need arise.

The property's generously sized storage structures make crucial behind the scenes ranch work run smoothly, including a large hay barn and a 75'x140' climate-controlled shop. This building houses additional office space, a full gym, a maintenance work room, and 6 oversized parking bays for trucks, trailers, and motor coaches. There are 10 separate cattle holding pens with feed bunks, hay bunks, shelters and automatic waterers that comprise a 500 head capacity feed lot. This feed lot system is contiguously fenced and is complete with loading chutes, a doctoring facility, and access to all pasture systems and the training facility. The cattle pens and feedlot can easily function as a spacious and effective dry lot storage for horses when capacity numbers are significant.

Great measures have been taken to create and preserve a consistent aesthetic throughout the property. The ranchs twelve large pastures and eleven paddocks are all fenced with five-rail steel pipe and have individual shelters. This meticulously maintained pasture system is irrigated and is lush with well established, sprigged Costal Bermuda grass, providing a true grazing paradise for our equine friends. A storm drainage system encircles the training facility and all electrical and water lines have been buried so that nothing mars the serene view of rolling pastures.

The manager's home and four staff apartments compliment the facilities while the beautiful Emery Young designed main residence sits high on a hill, nestled among numerous mature oaks.

For more information on this once-in-a-lifetime property please contact Allen Crumley at 817-862-4459 or Martha Williams at 817-570-9401

This exclusive listing is offered for $15,900,000.

165 adjacent acres are also available for purchase if additional acreage is desired. Please contact us for more information.

More specific detailed property information:

Residences

-Main Residence is 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath on the core 176 acre tract

-Very nice 2 bed 2 bath manager's house on the core 176 acre tract

-Four single's apartments near the main facilities on the core 176 acre tract

-Cabin on the south 40 acre tract

-There is a two bedroom rock house on 1 acre adjacent to the 40 acre tract

-There is also a four bedroom, two bath home on the 119 acre tract.

Other pertinent information

Design and build info - Lake|Flato Architects of San Antonio designed the facilities and the managers house. Lachlan Oldaker from GH2 Equestrian Design (use to be Gralla Equestrian Design) worked on layout and functional design. Her most impactful work was on all pasture layout design. Lincoln Construction - Greg Gammill, owner and personally involved in this project. Mesa Design - Landscape architects and minor role. Lake | Flato carried the heaviest load but Lachlan was important in flow and pasture configuration away from the facility itself.

-There are 13 irrigated paddocks comprising approximately 55-60 acres. These are beautiful paddocks for horses that have been reworked, smoothed and sprigged in Coastal Bermuda grass. These paddocks can be grazed or hayed depending upon the owners needs. On the north 119 acres, there are approximately 65-70 acres of hay pasture that have also been reworked, smoothed and sprigged in Coastal Bermuda.

-There are 12, 50' x 90' irrigated paddocks with individual automatic waterers and shelters.

-There are 13 irrigated pastures ranging from five to nineteen acres each. These also have individual automatic waterers and shelters. Please note that each paddock and the majority of the pastures have been double fenced to ensure the optimal safety of the horses while allowing maximum use of the pasture system. Horses cannot reach one another from the separate enclosures.

-There is a 40 acre cattle pasture fenced with steel post and barbed wire.

-There are 10 separate cattle holding pens with feed bunks, hay bunks, shelters and automatic waterers that comprise our 500 head capacity feed lot. This feed lot system is contiguously fenced and is complete with loading chutes, a doctoring facility, and access to all pasture systems and training center.

-The main crop is coastal hay. Last year the ranch produced four cuttings for a total of 220 tons. There has been an extensive weed control program in place for the pasture and crop systems. Soil samples have been taken annually, and fertilizers and other agricultural adjustments have been made accordingly.

-A small, but productive, vegetable garden is located at the manager's home and yields a crop year-round. There are ample locations for additional gardens, or a greenhouse, should the new owner desire.

-They have also designed an additional extensive pasture system on the 119 acre parcel that could be put in place in the event that additional pasture room was required. Those plans are available if needed.

-Water is supplied by at least 9 deep Trinity Aquifer wells and is very sufficient. Additionally, there are two surface ponds. One of them is used as storage for the irrigation system and is automatically replenished as needed by five nearby wells. Houses and barns have septic disposal systems for waste water. (The shop has a separate well. The training barn and mare barn have a separate well. Owner's home has a separate well. The manager's house has a separate well. There is a separate well on the 119 acre parcel. There is a separate well on the 40 acres also.)

Proximity to DFW Airport

DFW International is 50 miles and about 1 hour from the property. Part of what makes the ranch so unique is its exceptionally private setting while enjoying such a convenient proximity to the cultural centers of Fort Worth and Dallas and the convenience to one of the largest airports in the world.

Nearest Private schools

Within 20-25 minutes are a few of Fort Worth's finest private academic institutions; All Saints' Episcopal School, Fort Worth Country Day School and Trinity Valley School.

A number of other worthy private school options include:

- Fort Worth Academy

- Bethesda Christian School

- Covenant Classical School

- Fellowship Christian Academy

- Hill School

- Key School

- Lake Country Christian School

- Nolan Catholic High School

- St. Paul Lutheran

- Temple Christian School

Texas Christian University is a 30 minute drive from the ranch. Among other notable close schools are the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University in Bryan/College Station, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Baylor University in Waco.

Rice University is in Houston, four hours from the ranch, and boasts a prestigious reputation ranking in the Nation's top 20 colleges and universities.

A total of 340 acres is available. For more information please contact Martha Williams 817.570.9401 or Allen Crumley 817.862.4459.