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In the breeding operation. Dee shares a half-interest in serveral of the yearlings and weanlings with her parents and all three of the Weavers share the chores. Everyone pitches in to clean stalls. Bill feeds the hay and Dee ladles out the grain every day. During breeding season, Bill handles the stallion, Peggy takes care of the mares and Dee minds the foals.
“Of course, I get the great honor of doing all the bookkeeping," Peggy joked.
Keeping the business records picks up when the mares start to arrive. “We have 25 to 30 horses here that belong to other people when we get to breeding mares in the spring,” Bill said. It puts the squeeze on stall space and so the Weavers are looking for a bigger farm, in Rappahannock and if possible along Route 729, an area that’s become the horse center of the county, Peggy pointed out. Moving along the road from Ben VeiiUe. sfof .ticked off the. number of bgegding operations: "There’s the two Paynes’ farms (Red Payne’s thoroughbreds and son and daughter-in-law Bill and Mauri Payne's appaloosas). On the other side of the road, there’s the Eastham’s and then Bill Fannon's polo ponies, Jackie Estes’ draft horses and across the line into Culpeper. A1 Williams* quarter horses and a thoroughbred breeder just a mile off 729, Peggy noted. Most of these horse people are not wealthy aristocrats but rather working folks like
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