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Dec 25, 2006

December 25, 2006

 

Christmas is here.  It is a time to be thankful and a time that I cherish all of the old memories I have of Christmas when I was growing up.  I can remember every year wanting a pony for Christmas and the disappointment I had when there was no pony  under the tree.  One year, I was surprised when my parents took me out to the old barn behind our house and in it was the most beautiful Shetland pony I could ever imagine.  Her name was Ginger and she was about 7 months old.  I thought that I was the luckiest girl in the world.  From that time forward, horses have always played a part in my life.  I can remember going to college in Oshkosh, Wisconsin so that I could take my horse with me and keep her at the fairgrounds.  It only goes to show that girls who grow up loving horses never get over them.  I know that is true about me.

 

Horses have brought me many friends through the years.  I am so thankful for both the old and the new friends that I have.  Every year, Ronnie Salmons calls me from Kansas on Christmas.  I just got off the phone with him.  I remember when Ronnie called and was going to bring his mare to breed to Impressivist and he told me that if he got here and didn’t like the horse, he was taking his mare home.  Needless to say, Ronnie left the mare and we have been friends ever since.  My dear friend, Mary Simons always stays in touch with me.  She brought a home-made cheese cake a few days ago.  Mary and I traveled a lot when we were young---of course, always to look at horses or visit horse people.  Sometimes I think I don’t tell people enough how much I appreciate their friendship. 

 

I have been thinking about how the horse business has changed over the years.  In the old days, the shows had huge halter classes. I remember when our Wisconsin Futurity had over 100 weanlings in one class alone and it would take a long time to judge it.  Now, we are lucky to have 10 or 12 in a class.  I ask myself what has happened to change all that and I really don’t know.  Some people blame it on the cost to show, others blame it on the politics of the horses shows, but I believe it is because the shows have become more of a business instead of a time when people get together to have fun and enjoy each other. 

 

I have also been thinking about how our horses have changed over the years.  When I was growing up, our horses were about 14.3 to 15 hands and had a lot of mass.  The hocks on them were not posty and we very seldom had leg problems. It was not unusual to see horses show at halter in the morning and performance in the afternoon.   Now, it seems that we have to have horses at least 16 hands tall and we tend to overlook a lot of faults.   Heads are no longer important, nor are hips or straight legs. I have been told that the head is "only a place to hang the halter". I know what I like in a horse.  Heads, hips, backs, high necks and good hocks are very important to me.  In an age when a lot of horses are cheap, I have found that the good ones will still bring good money. I feel it is important to buy the best you can possibly afford.  Not only does it cost the same to feed that horse, but you will find that the return you will realize on the foals will be much greater. Of course, a lot of the horse business is a gamble as the same mare will have different quality foals in different years sired by the same stallion.  Although that may be true, it is still extremely difficult to raise a quality foal if the parents aren't good individuals. I still believe that your best chance is to try to match your mare to a stallion that will “hopefully” improve her where she needs improvement and not hurt her good features.  Enough said about that for now.

 

I hope you have noticed that the “For Sale” page is up on the web site.  Along with the two mares on it, we also have the two fillies that we have left for sale.  They are Frostie, who is NN and out of Miss Bunny Tardee and Sherry who is NH and out of Phenomenal Affair.  Both are sired by Exceptionist.  Rexine has also been working hard on new graphics and I love the gray mare head shots on top of the for sale page.  Her Christmas card is really neat and I love the bright red color and the snow on the card.  She has also added new pictures to the “Winter Gallery” and I will continue to take more pictures for it.  We have not had much snow or cold weather but I am sure it is coming.

 

Foaling season is coming fast.  Angelica is due the 14th of January and I now have the live foal cam working.  She should be  on the camera very soon.   Kids Classic Style will be the sire of the baby and your guess is as good as mine as to what color it will be.  I have been telling everyone that we are starting a new color.  I would appreciate any opinions as to what color a gray mare and a buckskin stallion will produce.  I would imagine that the graying gene will eventually prevail and the foal will turn gray (but I don't know that)   I have a lot of new and exciting news to tell you but think I will save that for another day. After all, it is about time that I go in the house and eat some more “sweets”.  

 

Sandy  


Nov 26, 2006

November 26,

 

It has been such a long time since I have written news.  I hope that I can remember all that has happened, and there has been a lot.  

 

On October 19, Mike, Dickie, Molly (the dog) and I went to Mississippi.  What a wonderful trip it was.  We went to look at the horses that our partnership owns together.  They were awesome and we decided that we needed to bring the 2 mares to Wisconsin. One is the June two year old filly by Shanes Bake and the other is her mother, Shanes Lady Romantic.  With all the things going on at home, we decided to leave the weanling Exceptionist filly there for the winter.  I will show you pictures of the 2 year old mare and also the weanling filly.  The two year old mare, Twice the Romance, is NH and is absolutely awesome.  We will sell her and she will make someone a great show mare and an outstanding broodmare.  The baby filly is something else.  Talk about muscle on an NN filly.  Her nickname is Caroline, and wait until you see her in the spring.   The dam of both of these is Shanes Lady Romantic and she is in foal to Golden Gunslinger.  If she crosses half as well with him as she has with the other two studs, we should have a great one. 

 

When we got home, we had visitors from Lousiana and Mississippi.  Garrell Chiasson and Jimmie Allemand came to Wisconsin and during the time that they were here, we had the most miserable weather imaginable.  Now, in Wisconsin, we can have cold weather but this was something else.  The wind blew and we had rain and sleet and I was amazed when they told me they wanted to bring their wives back to Wisconsin.  I told them that we normally don’t have wind, but the way it was blowing, I really don’t know if they believed me.   They left with a trailer load of horses.  They bought Mickey, Sadie, Benny and An Exceptional Affair.  Garrell made a great purchase and bought Call Me a Renegade and he will leave him here and we will promote him for the upcoming breeding season.  I intend to have his own page on the website.  Not only is this a wonderful NN stallion, he has the sweetest disposition imaginable.  You will be hearing a lot more about him from me in the coming weeks. 

 

No sooner had they left than Tom and Josephine Flory called from Ohio and wanted to come to see the mares.  I couldn’t believe that they drove here and back in one day.  Well, we had no intentions of selling PJ Prophets Cool Skip (Patty)  but somehow it happened.  She has been one of our favorite mares but she will have a great home with the Florys and they intend to breed her to Carribbean Kid, who was bred by my dear friend Carri Jones. 

 

Next was the trip to the Quarter Horse World Show.   I flew out on Wednesday and as usual had a wonderful time.  This time was extra special as Jackie Hardwicke and her group from Australia  were there.  I had never met Jackie in person, but she and I are like sisters.  We visit on the phone and on email so much and meeting her was only the icing on the cake.  There were about 10 people from Australia there and what wonderful people they were.  Lanis and I couldn’t get over the accent and some of the expressions they had.  It amazes me that Jackie and I have the same taste in horses but I guess when you visit as much as we have, that happens.  The Florys who had bought Patty were there, as were Dr John Tan and his brother James.  The filly that the Tans own by Elusive Kid placed 4th in both amateur and open and we were all so happy for them.  One evening we ate with the Australians and the Tans and another night with the Florys.  All in all, it was such a great  world show  due to the people that we were with.   It was also a good time to get together and visit with a lot of my old friends that I see only once a year.  Lanis and I decided that we need to make a special trip to Texas before Christmas to look at the stallions as we really couldn't make any decisions at the show.

 

I got back from the World Show on Sunday and Jackie from Australia came to visit me on Wednesday. She brought me a gift of an actual kangaroo hide.  I will treasure it.  We took her to the Outback Steak House that night. She told me they don’t have any of the kind of food in Australia that they have here.  It was like telling a child that there is no Santa Claus, now that I know that Alice Springs Chicken doesn't exist.  Lol   Jackie spent Thanksgiving with us and then on Friday afternoon, Lanis and Monte May arrived from Mississippi with the 2 gray mares.  We all went out on Friday night and then I took Jackie to the airport on Saturday afternoon so that she could meet with her group in Las Vegas.  I really hated to see her go and hopefully it will not be so long between visits again.  I would love to go to Australia and I guess I just need a push to get me to do it.  These doggone horses seem to keep me at home.

 

Lanis and Monte left for Mississipi this morning and they took Daytona and A Legacy with them.  Monte is a wonderful horseman and trailer  and the stud is such a good moving horse, we decided that we would let him ride him for a bit before breeding season starts.  We intend to turn Daytona out for the winter along with the gray NN filly and bring both of them back to Wisconsin in the spring.  I forgot to tell you what is going on here.  Dr Katharine Fox, our vet is going to run her breeding operation out of our place.  We have been rebuilding the laboratory and now have a breeding dummy set up in the arena.  She is excellent at embryo transfer and freezing semen and it looks like my life if going to be busier than ever.    I think it will be fun and educational besides.  Since we have only 3 foals coming for next year, I will not be overwhelmed with the foaling.  We intend to collect and ship outside stallions here.  There are already 2 stallions committed that breed a total of close to 175 mares.    I have expanded the recipient herd so that we will be ready to do more embryo transfers also. I don’t think my life is going to be boring.

 

Somewhere along the way, I forgot to tell you about the new mare that we bought.  She is a black 2 year old NN mare and is double bred Mr Impressive.  She is close to 16 hands now and is really a nice mare.  Her name is Easy Off the Tee and I will show you some pictures of her.  She has winter hair but you will see her quality.  I intend to sell her, so if anyone needs a black NN mare for Christmas, give me a call.  Seriously, she would be a great cross with our modern day stallions as she has no Kid Clu or Obvious in her bloodlines. 

 

I think I will close for now.  I need to recover from a month of overeating.  I had been walking two miles a day and really need to get back on track with that.  Our weather has been awesome but according to the weather channel, it is about to change.  Snow is not far away.   I will try to keep up to date better on the news.  Rexine kept telling me to do it, but as time went by, it got harder and harder to do.  My resolution is to update it more frequently.   I probably forgot a lot of what happened at Ellis Quarter Horses already, and if I remember, I will include it in the next update.

 

Sandy

 

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Top row from left to right:: (pic 1) Legs, (pic 2) Legs lunging, (pic 3) Legs,Monte, Jackie, & Lanis (pic 4) Lanis & Sandy at the 2006 A.Q.H.A. World Show (pic 5) Rebecca

 Second row from left to right:: Pics 1-5 Easy Off The Tee, black mare n/n

Third row from left to right:: ( pic1) duck in quarry ( pic2) quarry ( pic3) Monte ( pic4 ) Lanis (pic5) Legs lunging

Fourth row from left to right:: (pic1) Angelica laying in straw (pic2) Caroline ( n/n weanling filly by Exceptionist) (pic3)Twice The Romance (pic4) Twice The Romance (pic5) Shanes Lady Romance 



Oct 17, 2006

October 17

 

So much has happened since I last wrote news that I hope that I will be able to remember all of it.   First of all, Carri Jones and her husband Marcus and son, Dalton came to visit us and pick up Coola.  Marcus is the best chiropractor I know---not only did he adjust Mike, Bob and I , but he also adjusted some of our mares.  Did it ever make a difference on Rebecca.  The next day, instead of her normal slow walk when she got to the pasture, she actually ran and bucked.  I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.  Of course we went out to eat both nights they were here and we even went to a place that had a group called the Kip and Tom show.  Kip sings and plays the guitar and Tom plays the stump fiddle.  Well, they had Dr Jones up there playing (no less) a garbage can.  I think that he could find another career as an entertainer.  I was surprised to see how much Dalton has grown up.  He looks like he is going to be a fantastic football player.  Mike was kidding him, telling him that he wants to be his manager.  I took a few beautiful pictures of Carri and Lucy as she left our place. 

 

Our weather has turned cold and our lovely foliage and flowers are gone.    It seems as though we went from beautiful summer to winter----forgetting autumn along the way.  I did take a few pictures and will show them to you.  One day it was raining and then the sun came out and I was able to get some beautiful shots of the rainbow.  Another day we went to look at trucks and saw some buffalo and birds along the road.  Then of course, I had to take pictures of the harvest moon. Of course, Molly has really enjoyed the weather with the leaves falling off the trees.  Mike throws leaves and she catches them.  I took a picture of her sleeping after 20 minutes of "strenuous" exercise chasing  leaves. 

 

We had made plans to go to the Congress this year. Well, our friends, Larry and Ann Lemke went and it took them 2 hours to go through Chicago.   I thought about it and then looked at the weather forecast for Ohio  and decided that I would rather go south and visit Lanis and Kathy and see Joanna Strickland and Monte and Tisha May.     So-------- we are leaving tomorrow.  I will take my camera along and take some pictures on the trip.  I will report about all the things I see while I am there.  Better close for now and start packing.   

 

Sandy

Please click on each thumbnail below to view larger. From top left - Buffalo & Birds, Carri Jones and Lucy, Frostie, Rebecca ( neck and head ) , Rebecca rear, Rebecca front , Lucy head and neck, Rainbow, Rainbow #2, Harvest Moon, and last but not least Molly sleeping...

 


Sept 18, 2006

September 18

 

It has been quite a while since I updated the news and a lot has happened.  Cooleah, is doing great---she has gotten some eyesight back in her eye.  In fact, today was the first day that I put her outside in a small shelter.  I also put Angelica in the same shelter so that she would have a buddy and since both are pregnant, it will make it easy for me to supplement them.  Besides, I figure she would be able to see a white horse better.

 

We have another stallion.  Now, can you believe that?   It just happened that Jim Sancken wanted to sell his 2 year old NN son of River City Renegade and me being “horse crazy” decided that he needed to be bought.  His nickname is “Larry” and he is really a nice horse, both conformation and disposition wise.  Before I got him, he was leading the state of Wisconsin at halter.  He has 6.5 open halter points with 13 wins and 4 Grands and 6 Reserves.  He is qualified for the World in Amateur with 10 shows and 10 wins.  I intend to sell him and hopefully whoever buys him will let me retain a few breedings to him.  I have some mares that I think he will cross really well on.  If anyone is interested in buying him, please contact me----you won’t go wrong with this horse---he will pay for himself in no time and I do not have him priced very high. One thing that I forgot when I bought Larry is that it is starting to get cold in Wisconsin and Larry has a beautiful hair coat.   I hope that he sells soon as I am not good at working horses or keeping them short haired.  He is currently outside with a sheet on him, but our nice warm weather is over I am afraid.

 

My good friend, Carri Jones came to visit me over the weekend.  Carri talked me into selling her  Coola---or Lucy as we call her.  Lucy is the 3 year old mare that I planned to keep for a broodmare.  She is from the last crop of Ima Cool Skip and out of the Reserve World Champion of Kid Clu that is now in Australia.  I guess if can’t have her, Carri is the perfect owner for her. Lucy is such a sweetie and she is going to think she died and went to heaven when she goes to Rock Rapids Iowa.  Carri bought her to breed to her great young stallion, Carribean Kid and what a cross that is going to be.  She will join the other great mares that I sold Carri in the past.  You talk about some great mares, check out her website   www.halterhorse.net. and take a look at them.  You will be impressed.  I sold her Miss Carri Clu, CJ Miss Cool Tardee, and  Prophetic Win and also raised Charismatically Cool.  Both CJ Miss Cool Tardee and Charismatically Cool are out of Miss Bunny Tardee and Miss Carri Clu is out of a son of hers.  What a great family of horses that have descended from the old Tardee Impressive mare.

 

I snapped a few pictures of 4 sand hill cranes that like to “hang out” in our field.  They are huge birds but I suppose they will start getting smart and going south. soon.  I also took a few really neat sunset pictures which I will show you. 

 

Sandy we plan to pick Legacy up and bring him home.  I am hoping he hasn’t grown winter hair so that I can get some new pictures of him to show you

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Top row Sunset pictures, second row Sand hill cranes, and Larry.

Third row Larry. Bottom row the first three pictures are Larry and the last picture in row is Lucy.

 



August 29, 2006

 

Lanis and Kathy Noble, our partners from Mississippi on A Legacy came to visit us last weekend. One thing about Lanis, when he tells me he is going to do something, he does it. They make fun of me because I keep changing my mind and make reservations to go somewhere and then cancel. Lanis had always told me that after Legs was at the trainers for a month, he would come up and we would go and see him. Well, it was not an entire month, but Lanis and I got up early last Saturday and drove the 3 hours north to see how Jeff Emerson was doing with the stallion. You cannot believe just how impressed we were with both Legs and Jeff. In less than a month, he has him riding with a great headset, backing, side-passing and doing all the things a riding horse should do. I wanted him broke to hobbles and he has done that also. I took a few pictures of him riding and we decided that we would leave him up there another month for more training. Jeff intends to chase a few calves with him and continue his education. I measured him at 15.2 and ½ at the withers and 15.3 at the hip. I believe he has quite a bit of growth left in him as he is a late colt. It always amazes me how much a horse changes when you don’t see them every day. I knew the horse was good minded but Jeff tells me that he is really an athletic horse also. I guess his breeding is coming through for that.

Wisconsin is in the middle of a draught and everything is brown. We are very lucky to have all the hay we do in the barn. We also harvested our oats and we have enough of them to last us throughout the year. Mike has not had to cut grass for so long and it is difficult to take pictures when there is no green background. The flies have been terrible and the inside horses want to go out in the morning but then are ready to come back in under their fans and fly system within a few hours. I guess I shouldn’t complain as soon it will be fall and then cold will come. We like fall, as the Packer and Badger games start and we are big football fans. Of course, what else do you do in Wisconsin when it gets cold.

Last Monday morning while I was sitting in the office before starting my chores, I heard horse hooves and saw that the 5 horses we had in one shelter had broken the boards and were out. When I went back there, the boards were broken in 3 different places. They were not able to get onto the highway as we have a fence around our property and the gates were still closed. I caught them and noticed that Cooleah (Olivia) could not see. I had the vet come out and she is completely blind. We treated her and a specialist from the Referral Center came and Tuesday and hopefully we will be able to save her eyesight. It would be terrible if she were blind as she is in foal and I can’t imagine foaling her out and then her being able to find her baby. I have been told that horses adjust very well, but this is something that I just don’t need or want to deal with. I will keep you up to date on her recovery. After the horses got out, Mike decided that he needed to build a fence within the fence down by the highway so he and Bob built it in 2 days. Dickie painted it. I did not think we needed it, but now that it is done, it really looks nice and I must admit it is a safety factor. The only casualties we had were that both Mike and Bob got stung by bees. Bob’s hand swelled up and he had to take a day off work and Mike got it on the side of his face. Well, we did have one more casualty---that was Mike hitting his thumb with a hammer and needing 5 stitches in it. I keep telling him he needs to get his eyes examined but you know men---can’t tell them anything.

Molly is back to her old self. She was supposed to stay quiet for a month, but no one told Molly that. She is chasing balls and riding with Mike on the gator again. We are so lucky that she is still alive after the rat poison episode. It was pretty lonely around here the 2 days she was in the hospital. Since we don’t have any children, Molly is like a child to us.
 

Sandy

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Top row is A Legacy aka "Legs"
Second row is Mike, Bob, Mike and Bob, and Bob.
Third row is Lucy and Janie, Angelica, Mares, and Phen and Patty.
Fourth row is recipient mares, An Exceptional Affair and Molly.
 


 
August 13, 2006

August 13

 

At lot has happened in the last week. Our dog, Molly,  who is like our child, almost died.  We noticed on Saturday that she was lethargic and sore in her hind legs. We thought that perhaps she had eaten some of the rat poison that Bob had been putting out but then again questioned whether a dog would eat rat poison. That night she seemed to drink a lot of water and when I woke up Sunday morning she was panting heavily and had a paunch hanging under her neck.  I  immediately called our vet and he referred us to the Animal Referral Center which specializes in emergency treatments.  We rushed her there and on the way I really didn’t think we would ever bring her home alive. A dog’s blood is supposed to be 40 and hers was 22 when we arrived and within 10 minutes it had dropped to 13.  They told us that she was very critical and was bleeding internally from the rat poison. They told us that if she made it through 4 hours she may make it and she did. We went to visit her Sunday evening and on Monday night we were able to bring her home.  It was a big lesson for us----no more rat poison where the dog could possibly get it. We are thankful to have Molly back and normal again. Of course, she is supposed to stay quiet for 4 weeks and she is already running around and riding with Mike on the gator.  

 

Yesterday, A Classic Edition, the 2 year old filly that we called Buffy was named Youth World Champion 2 year old mare. What a thrill it was watching the class on the Internet.  Now I know why I don’t like horse shows----each placing, starting with honorable mention, made my heart  skip a beat.  However, it was so exciting when her name was called for World Champion.  Her owner, Travis Sancken did a great job of showing her.  It is hard to believe that little Buffy has matured into that big gorgeous mare. I will have win pictures of her on the website as soon as I get them.  Paula Warner must really be pleased as Nickie is a full sister to her. They are by Kids Classic Style and out of Cooleah.  This mare has really crossed well with Kids Classic Style as her other foal by him was Australian World Champion last year.  Cooleah is one of the few mares that I have in foal for next year and she is bred back to Kids Classic Style.  I was thinking about the foal crop that we raised that are now two year olds. Three of the 5 colts that we had that year have been World Champions. The other two were Champaign and Janie. We lost Champaigne as a coming yearling and we still have Janie and intend to use her for a broodmare.

 

Third cutting hay is now in the barn and we have enough hay for the year.  If we get some rain we may get another cutting. Of course, there is not room in our arena for anything else as it is full of hay. Mike won’t be able to complain about the number of horses we have now as we have plenty of feed to take care of them. 

 

Mickey is sold.  He is the NN stud colt out of Miss Bunny Tardee by Exceptionist.  He is going to a great family who are building their ranch in Mississippi . They currently live in Louisiana and are in the process of bulldozing trees and building facilities.  Mickey will be their future stallion. What better bloodlines can you get than Exceptionist and Miss Bunny Tardee.  I am looking forward to meeting them when they come here to pick him up in a few weeks. 

Sandy

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From left to right below, Molly, Molly in hay, Molly rest, Bob and Mike, and Mike.

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August 3, 2006

August 3,

 

July is gone and what a hot month it has been.   I don’t know how horses in the South can handle this heat and humidity. Perhaps our horses are babied too much but they want to go outside  in the morning and then about after 3 hours they are ready to come back in under their fans and fly system.  Now, most of the mares live outside and we decided that we would put basket fans on the ends of the shelters to give them some air and to blow the flies away.  Well---what do the horses do but stand out in the hot sun and let the bugs bite them.  I always thought they were dumb, but this is really frustrating me.

 

I was so happy to hear that Western Sundown was Reserve World Champion at the Palomino World this year.  Talk about a pretty stallion.  I am excited to try him on some of my mares next year as he will certainly put the pretty on them. Congratulations to the Sartains---they are really promoting “Trigger” and I look for great things from him.

 

Legacy has gone to “riding school”   Lanis and I thought it would be a good idea to get him broke to ride.   He is very athletic and has such a good mind,  we thought it would give him a few more manners to prepare him for the next breeding season.  At least he is not flunking this school like he did “ breeding school” this year.  Jeff Emerson from Hixton, Wisconsin has him and poor “Legs” is really learning to rough it.   He went from a life of leisure to having to work.  I never dreamed we would have heat like this when Mike and I took him there.    He is tough and he will survive and I am sure come back and appreciate the good living he has here.  I talked to Jeff and he is already riding him and he tells me that the horse in very smart and also very athletic.  I am so happy that I found Jeff and his wife, Norma, as I think this is the type of breaking that is good for a stallion. He will ride him in the hills after his basic training and this is the type of training we wanted for him.

 

I have done some horse trading and have Benny back.  Benny is the first embryo this year out of Miss Bunny Tardee and Exceptionist.  I love him for all the muscle he has.  He is definitely my kind of horse and with the pedigree he has, he will certainly be a breeding horse.   I have been trying to take some pictures of him despite the heat and humidity.  Rexine will have them on the foals page but I will show you a few of them on the news.   He will be for sale but I definitely want to retain some breedings to him if he is sold. I think he depicts what I am  breeding for in my program.

 

Sandy

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"Mares"

"Trigger & Terry Sartain

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"Benny"


 
July 9, 2006

July 9

 

What a week!!   I have been trying to finish taking new pictures of the foals before I wean them.  I am down to one foal and hopefully I will be able to take pictures of Sadie tomorrow and then wean all of them.  Rexine will have them on the foal pages soon---all I need to do it send them to her. 

 

We have had Mike’s relatives in town for about 10 days.  It has been very hard on my eating habits as there has been something to do every night and staying home is not an option.  We had a big party out here on July 5.  The weather couldn’t have been better.  Dickie cooked brats, hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill and we had around 40 people here.  There were a lot of children and they had fun riding on the gator and the golf cart.  I took some pictures and will show them to you.  The sunset was gorgeous that night and I was able to get a picture of it also.

 

On July 5, I also took a few pictures of Rebecca (You Bet Im Cool) and her 20 year old dam, Miss Bunny Tardee.  I think they are the laziest horses in the world.  I bet Rebecca knows that the old mare is her mother because she can’t stand not to have her in sight at all times   I will show you the pictures that I took of them and also a few new pictures of Frostie, the NN filly out of the Tardee mare.   She is really coming on after being weaned---getting more and more body right along.  I think she looks more like the Tardee mare at the same age than any of her other foals have.  The old Tardee mare has certainly been a great producer.  I am sure you have seen pictures of the young stallion, Carribean Kid.  He is out of a full sister to Rebecca---both sired by Ima Cool Skip and out of the Tardee mare. 

 

Last year I told Tom and Crystal Woiderski about a Paint stallion that my good friend Ray Ramarus owned.  They bought him and he was just named World Champion Amateur Aged Stallion.  What a thrill it must have been for them. It couldn't happen to nicer people either. RR Ratchetts Clu is sired by a stallion that I bred, The Clumanator. He is sired by Clueman who was a World Champion son of Miss Bunny Tardee. 

 

We are finishing our second cutting hay and that has been a major project.  I think we have enough hay in the barn to sustain us for the year and we still have third cutting to go.  The weatherman has been very unreliable.  We watch the weather and it says the next week will be sunny and then we cut hay and it rains the next day.  Mike says that he could be a weatherman as all you have to do it guess at what is going to happen.  I am beginning to think he is right.  We are planning a trip to Mississippi next week.  It will be nice to get away for a few days and see the horses that we own together.  I will try to take some pictures of them for you. Lanis is such a wonderful host so I don't imagine my diet will  do very well.  Oh, well, after all  it is a vacation and what else are you supposed to do on a vacation but relax and enjoy yourself. 

 

Sandy 

 

Click on each picture below to enlarge it. Top row is You Bet Im Cool "Rebecca" , next two rows are party pictures, then next to bottom row is "Frostie", then bottom row is Miss Bunny Tardee.

Picture below is RR Ratchetts Clue "Chance"


 
June 28, 2006

June 28

 

Summer is going too fast.  I can’t believe that July is almost here.  This weekend all of Mike’s relatives will be here and that results in days and nights of getting together.  I will probably gain 5 pounds during the visit.  We always have a picnic at the farm for them so I am hoping that the weather will be fine on July 5.   If not, I don’t know what we will do as there are too many to have it inside.

 

The babies are doing great.  Frostie weaned really well.  I can’t believe how the Exceptionist babies keep improving for the better.  They just seem to get more and more hip on them.  Let me tell you, if you like them while they are on their dams, you will love them a few weeks after you wean them.  The time is coming  to wean all of the others except Sadie.  I normally wean at about 4 months and July will be that time.  It will be nice to get the mares out of the barn.  We have two really good stud prospects left.  They are both NN and both will make someone a great stallion, both conformation and pedigree wise.  Bucky is by Kids Classic Style and out of You Bet Im Cool.   He is going to be huge and have a ton of muscle.  Mickey is no slouch either.  He is by Exceptionist and out of Miss Bunny Tardee. He is not hurting for muscle either.   I am trying to get caught up on new pictures of all of them and if the sun would cooperate, I would get it done.  Mickey is a full brother to both Benny who is sold and Frostie, the NN filly that I do have recent pictures of.  If I were looking for a stud prospect, I would certainly consider these two colts.

 

I am anxious to show you pictures of the fillies.  Both Sherry and Daytona are going to be huge.  They are finally shedding but now they have long light hair on their legs and the rest of them is dark.  Not good for pictures.  Hopefully I  will be able to take some soon.

 

We are finally finished with our first cutting hay.  We have had a lot of rain and cool weather in Wisconsin and we have been trying to get it baled between rains.  Fortunately the quality is  good and the only rain we had was on the hay that we finished yesterday.  Mike was in Madison meeting with the governor so our friend Dickie, baled it for us. He has been a big help around here and can do just about anything. When Mike is gone to Madison and Bob is working the wrong shift, I can count on him to help me get the mares and colts in the barn in the afternoon.   He is going to paint our barns this summer and boy, do they need it.  The blue has faded over the years and it will look so nice when it is dark blue again.

 

Jackie, my friend from Australia, sent me pictures of her two Exceptionist filles.  They are both NN of course, as they can only have NN in Australia.   It  seems strange that they are weanlings but as you know their season starts in August so these fillies will be yearlings then.  Jackie is planning to come to the United States for the World this year.  She is bringing about 20  horse people with her including her mother and her daughter.  They will spend a week at the World and then Jackie will come and visit me.  We are such good friends and we have never met in person. It is amazing how much we have in common regarding our ideas on horses. She owes me about 20 milk shakes for bets I have won with her, so I will probably put on a few pounds then too. 

 

Rexine has really done an outstanding job on the webpage.  Her talent amazed me. The web page is so nice, I can hardly believe it is ours.   I hope you enjoy it and we really would welcome any  advice you could give to make it even better.  I need to finish taking pictures for  the foals page and then do new pictures of A Legacy.  I think you will be amazed at how he is coming.  It is too bad he wasn't mature enough to breed this year, but I certainly wouldn't want to hurt him for the future.  Lanis and I are seriously thinking of sending him to someone to break him to ride.  He is a gorgeous mover and this person would trail ride him .  I think it would be very beneficial in the years to come.   I would like to have a video of him on the site.  All we need is some nice weather and some time to do it. Keep checking for the new foal pictures---I promise as soon as we get some sunny days, I will take them.

 

Sandy

From left to right below, "Frostie" , Dickie, "Fe", and "Mia".
Click on the thumbnails below to enlarge.

"Frostie"

"Dickie"

"Fe"

"Mia"



 
June 13, 2006

 

 

June 13, 2006

 

I have so much to write about. Lanis and Kathy Noble came to visit us on June 9.  Our weather was perfect for them----cool and no humidity.  Coming from Mississippi they loved it and I think if they didn’t have plane tickets they would have stayed longer.  Kathy is an antique collector and she found some real “treasures” in Wisconsin. Of course, one of the items is an ornate wood burning stove and either we will deliver it or they will have to come back to get it as there was no way it could go on the plane. Lanis seemed to love the horses and we went out to eat both nights they were here besides stopping at our little neighborhood bar  and grill one