Reverie accepts a limited number of boarding clients. The relationships we build are meant to last, and the farm is set up to support them properly.
a home for the right mares.
our approach
Small on purpose.
Reverie Farm has capacity for 100 horses. We have no intention of filling it. The goal is around 40 mares: half our own, half for clients. That number was chosen because it's what this farm can do properly.
What boarding at Reverie looks like.
Clients board at Reverie because they want to know their mare is known, not just managed. The farm is small enough that the staff have a genuine relationship with every horse on the property. Updates are direct. Communication comes from people who are actually in the barn, not routed through layers of administration.
we are not a consignment.
Reverie does not consign horses and has no financial interest in how a client breeds or sells. The advice offered here comes without agenda, from a family and a team whose only investment is in the horses doing well.
The farm is also, increasingly, a place the Harrells themselves are present. Curtis and Beth are in Kentucky regularly. Their children are all involved in the operation. Boarding at Reverie means a relationship with the family as much as with the staff.
John Durr
John Durr has been foaling mares for over 30 years. He managed this property under its previous ownership and stayed when the Harrells purchased the farm—because, as Curtis came to understand, John doesn't think of this place as a job. He lives here. He has always treated it as home.
His background runs through some of the most respected operations in Central Kentucky: WinStar Farm, Gainsborough Farm, and more than a decade on this specific piece of land. He knows the pastures, the barns, the rhythms of the property across every season. John runs a tight operation. He has high standards and doesn't negotiate them.
His son Dalton serves as assistant farm manager. His son Lucas manages equipment and maintenance. The horses are handled by people who know them. The routines are consistent. When something is wrong, the person who notices has been watching these animals long enough to recognize it.
How it has to be done.
Curtis Harrell runs Citation Oil and Gas on a simple principle: the people who work there should run it like they own it. The same expectation applies at Reverie.
There are no shortcuts taken on this farm. That's what this property has always required of the people who looked after it. We intend to keep it that way.