Mill Ridge Farms · Fishers, Indiana
Our History
The streets of Mill Ridge Farms in Fishers, Indiana, are named for three racehorses connected to the real Mill Ridge Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. We are not affiliated with that farm. We’re proud to be associated with its history, and we want to keep these horses’ legacies alive.
The Kentucky farm
Mill Ridge Farm: a Thoroughbred legacy
Mill Ridge Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, is a Thoroughbred nursery founded by Alice Chandler in 1962. She began with 286 acres and four mares inherited from her father, Keeneland co-founder Hal Price Headley, whose Beaumont Farm raised Menow.
A defining early success was Sir Ivor, foaled and raised at Mill Ridge before winning the 1968 Epsom Derby. The farm later foaled and raised Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo and his half-brother Tiago, and helped nurture champions including Point Given and Havre de Grace.
Today, Chandler’s son Headley Bell and grandson Price Bell carry forward the farm’s horse-first approach to raising and caring for Thoroughbreds. Mill Ridge Farm is in Lexington, Kentucky; our Mill Ridge Farms neighborhood is in Fishers, Indiana.
Sources: Mill Ridge Farm’s official history · Client success stories.
Menow
Kentucky DerbyMay 7, 1938 · finished 4th
Photo: Charles Christian Cook / Keeneland Library.
1937 champion two-year-old, buried at Mill Ridge Farm.
Anees
Kentucky DerbyMay 6, 2000 · finished 13th
1999 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner; retired to Mill Ridge Farm.