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Monday, May 29, 2006

MY NEW FILLY. TRULY ONE OF A KIND!

This TWHBEA filly by DUNN CASHED IN is the newest addition to my broodmare band. She was born may of 2006. Darling's dam is by the Champagne stallion Hillbilly's Bud Light, a stallion I have long admired and considered breeding my mares to.

Champagne Dunn Darling LS (name pending)

Most duns in the TWHBEA are fasle or fading duns. Cash is a true dun siring true duns. Here you can see her dun stripe well.

Arrow's Blue Gold

This is Diamond Dust's first colt. I want to thank Elsie Darrah for these photos. She is a nice lady with nice horses. She can be found in the links section under Last Chance Farms.

Isn't he a dream to behold. I wonder where he is now. I would like to hear from anyone who knows.

Arrow's Blue Gold as a foal

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Arrow's Something Else

This is Diamond Dust's second colt, born last year. He is still in Colorado at the Lazy Y Arrow. His sire Flash, is also the sire of my filly Taffy.

376 years is a lot of history behind 1 little horse

Arrow's Mystic Gold can trace her "Family Tree" (Tail-Male, Sire & Dam) back to "Ras el Fedowi" (aka The Darley Arabian, circa 1700). BTW, "Ras el Fedowi" translates to "The Headstrong One", but I wouldn't tell her that !

Can you believe it?

Also, through other horses, she traces back to all 3 Foundation Thoroughbreds (Darley,Beyerly & Godolphin) and Fairfax's Barb Mare (foaled about 1630!)

I saw some snakes yesterday. I was in the house looking out the front window and saw that the two old hens (Ameraucanas, they lay blue eggs) were out in the road. They were all worked up over something. I looked and saw what looked like a tire retread or something, maybe an innertube. As I looked it started to move around. It was something, a black snake?

snakes

A couple of black snakes. What were they doing. I had to go out and get a better look, just like my hens. My first though was that they were mating. I called out my house mate to see. Didn't know they did it like that, she was on her back and he was on top. But then we notice she is dead. We decide to move them out of the road and the male bites and holds on the the female. Or so we thought. Now I wonder if it was a fight. He later returned to eat the dead snake. Anyone know?

I have been a hippophiliac {lover of horses} all my life. I was born in Garden Grove CA where we could not have horses. After wanting one for so long and saving LOTS of dimes and pennies, in the summer of 73 we moved to Norco CA. I finally got my first horse at age 7. She was a hateful Appaloosa mare in foal. Boy did those first horses teach me some things. By the time I was 10 I no longer had my own horse and had to ride the horses no one else wanted to, if I wanted to ride. I could ride horses my friends and family could not. I got the chance to work with show horses of several breeds and disciplines growing up. I lived within riding distance of Ingall’s Park so saw lots and lots of shows. My brother’s girlfriend (now his wife) showed Morgan horses and later their trainer bought the place across the road from my parents. Quite by accident I got into training horses. I mean that was all I wanted to do anyway, but to make money at it? COOL! I was 13. I started with rehabbing outlaw horses (a very learning experience for me) and went on to starting young Arabian horses then Morgans. In the early 90’s I moved to the Missouri Ozarks, near Ava. There I opened my own training barn open to the public. I trained horses for a living there for over 10 years before a bad marriage and an injury put an end to that. After the divorce and loss of my farm I traveled around quite a bit. I learned a lot and had good and bad times. I am now back home in the Ozarks with a brand new plan. I plan to build the ultimate trail horse. What that means to me is, big, bold, and beautiful. I want a horse pretty enough to show on the weekends, athletic enough to ride all day over rough terrain… day after day, and smart enough to save my life if need be, with a walk to bring tears to your eyes!!! I plan to start with the best blooded brood stock, with outstanding conformation, large hearts, big motors, and beautiful color...that can walk the walk, in the building of my ideal trail horse.