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The Vosburgh Production System
In the early 1900's Edward Vosburgh was well known for raising champion Perchron workhorses. Although not pursuing his father's trade, Robert encouraged his daughter's natural abilities with horses and taught her the skills the family had accumulated.
Today, Tammy Vosburgh takes those skills and her thirty-eight years of hands on experience to care for your bloodstock investment at our Loman Hall facility in Lexington, Kentucky.
Horsemanship also runs deep in the Chinn family. The family entered Kentucky in 1776 when it became a separate county of Virginia.
In 1883, John P. "Captain Jack" Chinn won the 9th Kentucky Derby [G1] with Leonatus. Christopher "Kit" Chinn was the breeder of 1916 winner George Smith. Colonel Phil T. Chinn bred four Kentucky Derby starters. Phil's best finish was 4th with Jack Higgins in 1928. In 1967, The Colonel's grandson, Hal Steele, Jr, ran second with Barbs Delight as Trainer and an Owner. The Colonel owned and operated Himyar Stud and Old Hickory Farm, which comprised of some 3,000 acres in Fayette County, Kentucky.
To deliberately and consistently produce a high quality professional equine athlete by systematically identifying and reducing external variables that effect the development of our clients bloodstock investment.
Tammy Vosburgh: By age eight Tammy had finally worn her parents down and received her first pony. At 12, when most kids are mowing grass for extra money, Tammy would buy a pleasure horse with an owner conflict, correct the problem and resell it for a profit. At 15 she began working summers at a large Standardbred farm in Pennsylvania. In 1981 she transitioned to Thoroughbred broodmares at a commercial farm in Silver Run, Maryland. Her areas of specialty include broodmare management, neonatal foal care, and convalescent rehabilitation. Today, She is applying and growing her skills at our Loman Hall facility in Lexington, Kentucky. She is living her dream; built in quality and diligence.
Pictured
is Tammy assisting the smallest of twins with balance several hours after
a complicated and successful foaling. Both colt and filly stood and
nursed on April 2, 2003. The twins were not detected on multiple ultrasounds
at the breeding farm.
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"I have to give Tammy a lot of credit, this was a very complicated and unusual delivery, she did what she had to do and handled it like a true professional. Her horses are in exceptional condition and that played a large part in the successful development of the twins."
Dr. Jan Penraat
Resident Surgeon
Dominion Equine Clinic
Suffolk, VA
Brian L. Chinn: Since an early age Brian can remember asking the question "Why?" and was intrigued by cause and effect. To the encouragement of his grandfather, he would dismantle just about anything to see how it worked. This led to a lifelong interest of process and design optimization.
Brian served fifteen years with U.S. Naval Intelligence and received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy.
Most recently he worked with a team at Northrop Grumman, task with the systematic optimization of an $800 million dollar a year supply chain. He now joins his wife Tammy and turns his skills toward the systematic production of high quality, professional equid athletes.
The Vosburgh Production System
The VPS is a continuously evolving, systematic approach to commercial thoroughbred production. It is based on 33 years of practical, hands on equine management experience, over 100 years of generational equine knowledge, and proven continuous improvement tools.
The VPS covers five major categories. Suppliers, Inputs, Processes, Outputs, and Owners. We judge quality based on the output of our processes. The quality of output can be improved by analyzing input and process variables.
We do not intend for this to be a new way of raising Thoroughbreds. It is simply about identifying the objective for that individual horse, putting a plan in place, and based on fact, improving upon the plan to continually and consistently produce a high quality professional equine athlete.
We have all heard the old saying, How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. In our philosophy it goes hand in hand with, Don't sweat the small stuff. That is how it happens; beat at the wire by a nose!
Add up a couple of small things, now we have a medium size problem, add a couple more, maybe three or even five. Small stuff can eventually add up to catastrophic failure, at the very least it adds up to a nose.
Diligent attention to detail is our weapon against complacency.
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