We're trying
to gather a nice group of colorful broodmares for
our farm, keeping in mind that we want to breed
good using ponies of medium size. All of our
mares are sweet-natured and gentle with builds
and markings that should compliment our stallion
well.
My
Gal Roxie
(2003
Grulla double-registered AQPA/IQPA mare)
(Roxie, August 3rd, 2005)
Roxie is a 13
hand silver grulla we rescued in 2005, expecting to
get her into good shape and find her a good home.
Imagine our surprise when the scruffy little dun filly we rescued shed out to be the gorgeous
grulla mare she is now! Roxie isn't just a pretty
face though, she's also extremely friendly and loving
with the perfect temperament for a family horse. She
often spends time grazing in the back yard while the
children play, and she is one of the first to the
fence for attention. Roxie is very correct with a
build and way of going that would lend well to her
becoming performance pony, though it's much more
likely she will stay a broodmare and pet. She ought
to cross well to Bandit in the future for some
outstanding pinto Quarter Ponies that can go English
or Western.
(Roxie and
Midnight after Roxie's first ride, July 22nd, 2006)
In 2006 she had
her first foal by Waylon's Willie Boy, a gorgeous
black colt that was the result of us finding out the
hard way that Roxie is a natural jumper and can hop a
five-foot fence when she wants to. We named her colt
Midnight and found him a great home with Keisha Dugan of Snyder Texas,
who bought him and two of Willie's daughters for her
children to show and 4-H with. Midnight has shaped up into a gorgeous young gelding and we think he has a fantastic future
ahead of him with the Dugan family!
(Roxie and Pistol, June
19th, 2007)
Roxie's second
colt, a red dun tobiano by Bandit that we named
Pistol, was a planned breeding and we're very pleased
with the result! Pistol can be seen on his own page as well as on our Sales page,
and we're very proud of him. He seems to have
inherited all of the best traits from each of his
parents and, like Roxie's 2006, is growing like the
proverbial weed!
We can't wait to
see what we get from Roxie and SS Flashin' My Badge
in 2008!
Penny
is 17 years young and 48 inches tall, and has become
our daughter Jacie's new best friend. She is a proven
been-there, done-that show pony that we bought
because she was guaranteed 100% kidsafe. Jacie needed
a good pony small enough that she could climb on it
and do all of the grooming and handling herself, and
we couldn't be more pleased with this pony. She is
everything her previous owner said she was and more!
Penny
has won buckles, saddles, and many ribbons, and she
is so calm and gentle that the kids can jump on her
in the pasture with just a halter to ride and play
with her. Jacie can easily ride Penny with a sidepull
and a bareback pad, but we plan to get her a nice
saddle and bridle anyway when she's ready to show.
Right now Jacie is enjoying spending hours riding her
pony around the pasture while Penny teaches Jacie to
really ride, and Jacie is getting more confident
every day. Penny is also well broke to drive and
we're looking into buying or trading for a cart and
harness so we can drive her in a parade or two.
As if
Penny weren't perfect enough, when we bought her we
were told she had also been exposed to a flashy
strawberry roan stallion with a lot of chrome. We
weren't expecting her to foal until late July or
August, so imagine our surprise when she bagged up in
May and gave us a colorful little filly! We named the
filly JC Silver Belle, and we're very happy with her.
She's a very flashy war bonnet tobiano with one blue
eye and one partial blue, and looks like she's going
to be a silver dapple as well just like her mother.
Belle is half the size of our other foals this year,
but she's very athletic and is going to be a
fantastic pony for some lucky child, just like her
mother!
Jacie
adores her pony, and so do we. Penny is everything we
hoped for when we made the long drive to buy her and
more, and we're all tickled pink! She's been bred to
Bandit for 2008, and we're hoping for another flashy
little tobiano.
String
Of Pearls
(AQPA Perlino
mare, IQPA pending)
(Pearl and Ashleigh in July 2007.)
Pearl is a
gorgeous stocky 13.1hh AQPA mare that has been DNA
verified by UC Davis as Perlino with agouti, or two
creme genes on a bay base, and she is sure to be a
spectacular broodmare for us. She has a wonderful
sweet temperament and the kind of build to put some serious
substance on foals by our young stallion, SS Flashin'
My Badge (aka Bandit). Pearl threw a beautiful filly
by Bandit's sire in 2006, so we can't wait to see
what Bandit and Pearl produce! Pearl is definitely
perlino, so her foals will all
be cream dilutes whether they look like one at birth
or not. Bandit is homozygous tobiano, so we're guaranteed
a cream dilute tobiano foal every time we cross Pearl
to him.
(Pearl with her
2007 colt, SS Doc's Premonition, at one week old.)
Pearl is already
a proven broodmare that throws lovely babies that are
definitely halter quality, with her solidly bulldog
build and babydoll head. Her 2005 filly was a cute
little buckskin
by KCs Renegade Scout that her breeder called Tizzy. Her 2006
filly, SS Whisper of Gold, is a lovely smutty palomino (DNA tested ee-Aa-NCr by UC Davis)
tobiano by JF Apollo Skyflight that was recently the Reserve World
Champion Pleasure Pony filly in Halter at the PtHA
World Show for her owners, Reba and Amy Callahan.
We're very proud to own Whisper's dam and Whisper's half
brother by JF Apollo Skyflight, and we have
high hopes for our future foals from Pearl and Bandit!
When we bought
her, Pearl was bred to Prescription for Lena -- who
stands at stud at Double S Ranch in Angleton, Texas -- for a March 2007
foal. We were sure that this one would be a
spectacular foal built like a tank with the wonderful
temperament both Pearl and Doc have, and we weren't
disappointed. We're very pleased with Pearl's
gorgeous buckskin tobiano colt even though we were hoping for a
buckskin tobiano filly. Two out of three
isn't that bad but does mean that the colt is for
sale, since we already have a herdsire. He has
followed in his older sister Whisper's footsteps by
not obviously appearing to be a dilute at birth, but
he soon shed off to a dark golden buckskin that faded
lighter over the summer.
(Pearl with SS
Doc's Premonition at two months old, just before he
shed his foal coat.)
We let Pearl's
previous owners name her colt, and they chose the
name SS Doc's
Premonition. We're calling him Docster for short and
really want to find him a
show or breeding home. His sire,
Prescription for Lena, was sired by the APHA Superior
Reining Horse and ROM Jr Working Cowhorse stallion Flying Little Lena, and is an own grandson of both Doc's
Prescription and Smart Little Uno (by Smart Little
Lena). Prescription for Lena's pedigree
reads like a who's who of working AQHA and APHA stock
with multiple ROMs in working cowhorse, reining and
cutting champions, and even a few Hall of Fame horses
in his close-up pedigree. With greats like Delta
Flyer, Jewel's Leo Bars, Peppy San Badger, Poco Tivio
(x2), Doc Bar (x3), Poco Bueno (x3), King (x3), and
Leo (x4) within the first five generations,
it's no surprise that Prescription for Lena was
valued at $10,000 as a weanling! With the wonderful
conformation Docster has and the dynamite pedigree behind
him, he ought to be a world-class performance horse.
Please visit Docster's page to learn more about him and see more photos of this extremely nice colt.
Pearl isn't just
a world-class broodmare and pasture ornament, she's
also a very nice riding horse who remembers her short
stint of professional training fairly well even
though it was a few years ago. We kept a lead on her
the first few times the kids climbed on just in case,
but she has done so well that they're sure to be
riding her on their own around the pasture before too
long! She was so unconcerned by it all that she looks
half asleep in the pictures we took. She's very calm
and steady with the kids and we couldn't be more
pleased with how well she did bareback with just a
bitless sidepull.
We're very happy
with Pearl and can't wait to see her first foal by
our herdsire Bandit, which is due in April of 2008.
Pearl's daughter Whisper already won a Reserve World
Champion ribbon in halter, after all, and that filly
was by Bandit's sire. Bandit has thrown nothing but
flashy, gorgeous foals so far, so we expect something
very special from Pearl in 2008!
Alloy
Anchor
(AQHA/PHBA
Palomino Mare)
We
haven't had Allie long yet, but we're absolutely
thrilled with her! She is kid gentle and was
used as trail horse in the mountains of Colorado
by her pervious owners, who bought her when she was
just a three year old and have owned and ridden her
for the last thirteen years. Jacie rode Allie the day
we brought her home and Allie was a doll for her, neck
reining, backing, and stopping with the kind of power
steering any great finished horse should have but so
few do!
The
kids are so used to Penny lugging on the reins in the
bitless sidepull they use on her that it will take
them a few rides to completely adjust to such a responsive mare,
but they are looking forward to it. Ash in particular
really seems to enjoy riding Allie, who is just the right size for her. She rode Allie in
the round pen a few days after we bought Allie to get
used to riding a horse that did exactly as she asked, and they did very well together.
So well, in fact, that next time we are going to ride down the road!
Allie
is double registered AQHA and PHBA with solid old
halter and working bloodlines including greats
like Skip Anchor and Impressive right on her papers, with
such prominent sires further back as Skipper W,Gold Heels, Peter McCue, Top Deck, Clabber Bar, Joe Reed, Waggoner, Three Bars, King, Zantanon, and Wimpy. She has the build and pedigree to put some
serious substance on foals by Bandit, and we're
looking forward to seeing what we get from them in
2009.
