This news according to my sister who lives very close to the park. Sad news. My understanding is that the cross country course is on county owned land, so presumably that will remain as open space.
Update, my sister has learned from someone who knows the listing realtor- on the market, but not in fact sold yet.
If the old listing is still valid, it can be yours for a cool $11.5 million.
More info:
http://parkerchronicle.net/stories/Horse-park-for-sale-owner-retiring,163946
Ah, but I see she’ll give a ‘discount’ to keep it as a horse facility!
I live nearby–sure wish I had $11.5 million lying around so I could buy it! I’ve been to so many wonderful events there. I sure hope it remains intact after sale.
When I moved to this area in 1994, there were lots of horse facilities in and around Parker. Most are very now dense housing developments. What a huge loss!
Rebecca
[QUOTE=RMJacobs;7730916]
I live nearby–sure wish I had $11.5 million lying around so I could buy it! I’ve been to so many wonderful events there. I sure hope it remains intact after sale.
When I moved to this area in 1994, there were lots of horse facilities in and around Parker. Most are very now dense housing developments. What a huge loss!
Rebecca[/QUOTE]
I lived by Cherry Creek Dam in the late 70’s early 80’s. I’d make the quiet trek out to Parker and ride at a Gaited Sport Horse facility. It was were I learned to drive (horses not a car). At the time it was rather desolate and many miles of scrub and Antelope. Left there before the Horse Park was developed.
High Hat, I wish I’d been in this area back then. I really hate how Parker is all about development these days. I moved outside of town just to get a little space and a place where I can safely drive my pony (yes, I drive too!).
Rebecca
High hat, was that Cockrell’s place? Believe it is still there. Moved to the area in
1990 and took a few lessons when it was still High Prairie Farms. Parker was two line up to Quincy when first in the area in 1988 or so. We bought in Clarke Farms
in 1993 and the west side of Jordan was mostly open land with antelope. Now it’s all houses all the way to I-25. Boarded on West Main…that barn is now gone but one of the others is still open and another is standing but not used.
Can remember a lady driving her horse on West Parker road with a sign on the back of the cart that said “Safeway or Bust”. Loved the annual Christmas carriage parade…did you all ever participate in that?
I have a feeling someone will come along who will keep it as a horse facility (no inside knowledge). It’s absolutely beautifully done as both a show and a boarding/training facility. So often facilities are sold when they are well short of their potential. Much great work has already been put into it, it’s a rare chance to step into a going concern as fully developed as COHP. Hope some very nice people who are very good at the horse biz end up with it! Lovers of eventing of course …
BasqueMom, are you still in Clarke Farms? If so, I am not very far from you–I live just outside the Parker town line. Our little horsie subdivision borders on Sunset Ridge, although they are inside the town line and we are outside.
Where did you board on West Main Street? I used to board at one of the places that is still there. It was nice when you could ride up Newlin Gulch Road when it was a quiet dirt road–not so nice now with all the houses and traffic. Now I have my horses at home, which is wonderful.
I miss the antelope along the west side of Jordan Road, too. I briefly lived in “old” Cottonwood when I first moved to the area (1994), then moved to Hills of Cottonwood later that year. I loved living there, until someone built a house right behind mine. We used to watch pasture boarded horses out there, antelope, deer, bunnies…then I had a house so close that I could reach out the window to shake hands with someone in that house. So we moved (lived in Stroh Ranch for several years before we moved outside town limits).
Rebecca
Neighbors!! I am just east of town, on Delbert Rd.
My family moved to Parker (Pinery) in 1997, though we didn’t get our little farm until 2007.
RMJacobs,
Nope, we sold the Clarke Farms house in late 1995 and moved to Elizabeth with
the five acres, house and barn in The Pines off Cty 21 a little east and north of Elizabeth. Moved to Texas (kicking and screaming) in late 2001.
Board at Canterbury Farm on West Main west of Arapahoe Riding Club. It was leveled several years ago. Was at Winterset on Jordon for a while but it is now houses. Had a brief spell of boarding in a backyard situation off Delbert near East
Main when I was trying to save some bucks toward a down payment on the first house.
Shared a house with two other gals (one was my BM) in Cottonwood just north of
470 in the early 90’s. Both of my horses were bought in Parker. My old, now gone, guy had come with me from the Chicago area. Lost him due to age and a heat stroke he never rebounded from…all those years worrying the old man and the cold winters.
Several years ago, a big name trainer from Chicago was going to buy the horse park but guess that fell through. Since most of the land belongs to the county or state, hopefully it can stay what it is. Tis a class facility!!!
It really is an incredible facility. I hope that whoever buys it will make a premier destination for multiple disciplines, eventing included! It’s too nice to buy and then bulldoze for more crappy houses.
[QUOTE=BasqueMom;7734776]
High hat, was that Cockrell’s place? Believe it is still there. [/QUOTE]
Yes, that was the place. They still had tie stalls for the hackney pony’s and we’d race them in a tiny indoor circle to exercise them. That really brings back the memories.
How old is that ad as it mentions 2008 show dates?
Wow, I had no idea there were so many people here with connections to this area! That is very cool.
Rebecca
I was one of the first boarders at COHP when it was High Prairie before Helen bought it. I board there from around the time it opened until I went to college around 2004.
I do know Helen is really pushing to sale it. I just hope it gets bought by someone who wants to continue with it as a boarding/showing facility. If it gets turned into more housing I’m afraid the horse community in Douglas county will have some very hard times a head of it.
[QUOTE=jenbrin;7737528]
I was one of the first boarders at COHP when it was High Prairie before Helen bought it. I board there from around the time it opened until I went to college around 2004.
I do know Helen is really pushing to sale it. I just hope it gets bought by someone who wants to continue with it as a boarding/showing facility. If it gets turned into more housing I’m afraid the horse community in Douglas county will have some very hard times a head of it.[/QUOTE]
I agree jenbrin. COHP is the anchor, definitely so for eventing.
I so enjoyed going to watch their summer Grand Prix series, sitting on the sloping grass with a picnic and a friends, watching Charlie Jayne perfectly ride the in-and-out just in front of us, 2 high verticals with, I’m pretty sure, a half-stride in between. :lol: Charlie was the only rider who just let his horse do it while he balanced exactly, and the only one who rode it foot perfect. Charlie won, of course.
And other very pleasant memories of COHP, many seasons and many disciplines. All the best to it and to Helen. 
I was up there last weekend for the first time and it will be a huge loss if someone horsie doesn’t buy it.
There was an article in the Denver Post today (the Douglas County local section) about the Colorado Horse Park being up for sale. The current asking price is $11.9 million. Anybody have any spare change they can send so we can make it the COTH Horse Park?
The article said that Helen wants to retire by the end of the year, so that suggests to me that, with that tight of a time limit, it could end up going to a developer. Sure hope that doesn’t happen.
Rebecca
[QUOTE=RMJacobs;7747130]
There was an article in the Denver Post today (the Douglas County local section) about the Colorado Horse Park being up for sale. The current asking price is $11.9 million. Anybody have any spare change they can send so we can make it the COTH Horse Park?
The article said that Helen wants to retire by the end of the year, so that suggests to me that, with that tight of a time limit, it could end up going to a developer. Sure hope that doesn’t happen.
Rebecca[/QUOTE]
Looking underneath the barn car seats for enough change to make $11.9 million … are they negotiable? 
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