While the notes listing this property’s features are many and detailed—all of them related to horses—the most interesting one is this: In lieu of money, the owners will consider a trade of a like-priced investment, such as a “yacht, jet, island.” If you have none of these, $17.5 million purchases one of the most elaborate equestrian facilities we’ve ever seen, including a veterinarian’s laboratory, an X-ray machine, 50-plus horse stalls, three video-equipped foaling stalls, a farrier shop and nine grass pastures. At 65,000 square feet, it’s also listed as the largest post-and-beam structure built in North America in the 20th century, with the only catch being that there is apparently no house—although a “splendid home site” is offered, along with a couple of bedrooms and bathrooms on the second floor of the facility. Stephen Drezen of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty in Litchfield has the listing. 860-567-0806.
