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Northeast/Mid-Atlantic: Family Affair

Ronnie Houghton had just finished talking about the 300-acre farm he and his wife, Betsy, own in southeastern Pennsylvania. Two-hundred Thoroughbred broodmares, weanlings, yearlings, and racehorses dot the place that straddles the (barely) two-lane Maple Shade Road between Oxford and Lancaster.

All manner of Houghtons and staff work day and night for themselves and clients on the horses, the farmland, the racetrack, and the 92 stalls, but Ronnie wanted to make sure he got his point across. He hopped out of his green Ford Ranger pickup, the one with the I LOVE THOROUGHBRED RACING sticker on the back bumper and the rifle on the front seat (groundhog patrol) and started walking and talking.