A family who has made a name for itself in the Arabian and Saddlebred show horse industries has just sold a 100-acre horse farm within Ocala’s Farmland Preservation Area for $6.4 million.
According to a deed filed with the Marion County Clerk of Courts, the property at 11959 NW Hwy 464B in Ocala was sold by Yellowstone Ranch, LLC to Dos Madres, LLC, for $6,400,000 on November 26.
State corporate records show that Yellowstone Ranch, LLC, is registered to Timothy and Tiffiny Barta, who own Barta Show Horses. Dos Madres, LLC, is registered to Vicki Loges.
Marion County property records show that the site is split into two parcels that are close in size (50.77 and 49.29 acres). The deed shows that both parcels were included in the sale.
According to a listing by Ocala Horse Properties, LLC, the real estate firm that brokered the sale, the property is filled with “mature oaks” and “lush green rolling pastures.”
The listing goes on to suggest the property provides the “perfect opportunity to bring to reality the farm you’ve only envisioned until now.”
The property is situated a few miles northwest of the World Equestrian Center, just south of U.S. Hwy 27. Although it is located near a hotbed of local development, it is within the Farmland Preservation Area that was established by the county nearly 20 years ago.
The county’s Farmland Preservation Area encompasses over 193,000 acres in northwest Marion County to protect local soils, water, and spring sheds in the area.
To view the county’s Farmland Preservation Area, visit the Marion County Government’s Interactive Mapping System online.
The sale comes less than four weeks after a 38.65-acre property around two miles away was sold for $3,665,000.
A few weeks before that, another nearly 47-acre portion of a horse farm in northwest Ocala was sold for $4,400,000.
UPDATE: After this story was published, Ocala-News.com was contacted by a realtor to clarify the acreage of one of the properties cited in this story.