The Horses Part 2

For years I have waited for just the right foal to keep for myself. I always wanted a filly, but I didn't get to keep Josie, and Stella met an untimely death by accident. I kept thinking Beamer and Belle would have another filly, but Belle seems to like having horse colts. Of her 10 foals to date only 2 have been fillies!

This year when Belle foaled out a really nice black colt, I decided to keep him; we just seemed to click. He has been so easy to train and has such a sweet personality. I named him Midnight Moondance. He is homozygous black and 5 panel negative. If all goes well in the next couple of years he will get to remain a stallion; he certainly seems to have the right disposition, conformation and attractiveness ; now it will depend on how well his training goes and if I can promote him in the show ring. 

Day 1

3 weeks old

3 months

6 months

He is weaned, trailer loads, stands tied, is good to trim his feet, has been started on sacking out, and is excellent to pony on the trails. He's a well mannered youngster too. What's not to love!

I was doing some research on photos in Beamer's pedigree, as I was curious as to why all the sons of the Beamer /Belle cross are so big. Belle is 14.3hh and Beamer is 14.2. Belle's mama was just under 15.2. All the full brothers to Moondance are very close to 16 hands and are good substantial bodied horses. 

This may be why they look like they do:

This is Isle Breeze, Beamers maternal grandsire. He was a 15.3 hh 1967 stallion. And darned if Moondance doesn't look just like him!

The Horses Part 1

It was time to open this blog again, as I am going off my other social media platforms. Some big changes since I last posted on here! 

Beamer is still my herd sire-  Coyote Belle and Zanits Miss Diamond are in foal to him for a 2021 foal, both due in May. 

At 19 years old he is still Mr. Handsome! 

His perfect nick is on granddaughters of Shining Spark, so I acquired another mare this year, Zanits Miss Diamond, and I am really happy with her. She is a former rope/ranch horse, retired due to a kick in the knee. 

She is 18 years old and has an excellent pedigree. https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/zanits+miss+diamond

She has a big soft eye and is a very kind and unassuming mare. 

If it wasn't for that knee, I would be riding her! I am pretty excited for her Beamer baby. I plan to send in a test to see if she carries agouti; if she doesn't her foal will be either black or sorrel, if she does you can throw bay/brown into the mix. 

My next post will be about our stallion prospect- Midnight Moondance, a son of Beamer and Coyote Belle.

2014 plans

I sold my broodmares last year, and currently have no horses for sale. Joleo Peppy will become my riding horse , with a possible future as a show horse, and Rio  is co-owned by myself and a young lady who will pursue his training and show career.
However, I am now standing Beamer to the public, so if anyone has a mare they would like to breed to him, please contact me at diamondlazyh641@hotmail.com
His stud fee for 2014 is $600 which includes one week of mare care.

Joleo Peppy- for sale

Our only horse for sale at this time is Joleo Peppy, a 2013 sorrel filly.
Here is her pedigree:
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/joleo+peppy
She has Docs Hickory and Mr San Peppy on the face of her papers.
She is sired by our stallion, Beamer (Isle Be Midnight) and out of the dun mare I sold this year, Chickory (AV Hickory Miss)
Her barn name is Josie. She is quick and athletic, which speaks to her cutting blood, and like all of Beamer's babies, she is quick to learn. I would prefer to keep her until next summer and do a lot of ground work with her to prepare her for a new home, but am willing to consider selling before then to the right home. As always, I prefer show/working homes, as my horses are bred to work. This filly could cut, work a cow or go to the reining pen.

2013 Fall update

So many things have happened here this year! First of all, Diamond Rio Peppy now has a new owner, the young lady who I had put his first rides on. They suit each other and Rio will be hitting the show pen in the future- look for this pair in the Cowboy Up Challenges, and maybe even in some English classes and Western Dressage in a few years.

Rio did well at the trainers, and will get some time off to grow up this fall, then Shayla will have a lot of fun with training him next spring.
Shining Midnight Moon, aka Nitro, was sold as a weanling, and resold to a friend of ours and has come back here to live.  He is a long yearling now and what a beautiful boy he is!

His owner has decided to leave him as a stallion for at least another year, and the plan is to test breed him to Gussie next year. Once he goes into training, the goal is to get him well broke and then see if he has an aptitude for speed events.

Coyote Belle fooled me this year- the first time I haven't been present when she foaled (11 AM!) and I got home from work to find a lovely black filly, all dried off, standing and nursing. I named her Stella Belle Peppy, and she is the long awaited black filly I have wanted.This was my first sight of her:

She is  really a sweet filly, easy to work with, friendly and curious.

I'm really pleased with Stella and plan to keep her for my personal riding horse.
I have an update on Midnight Coyote, aka Kai,  the folks who bought him resold him to a family, and he is 3 now. They have been doing the ground work on him but haven't ridden him yet. They say he has the same sweet attitude that the other siblings do, no surprise there!

The other full sibling to Kai, Rio, Nitro and Stella is Sparkle N Peppy, aka Jazz. She is 4 this year, and was sent to the same trainer as Rio.

I'm hoping to get photos next year of Jazz and Rio being ridden together- the first time I will get photos of Beamer babies together under saddle.
Coyote Belle has been bred back to Beamer for a 2014 foal- and if you want one of these beauties, I suggest speaking for it now, or shortly after it's born.

My red roan mare, Gussie, unfortunately gave birth to twins this year.... they only lived two days. There was a black colt and a red roan filly. It was heartbreaking to have them for such a short time. I have been riding Gussie a lot this year, she is such a nice mare, and I plan on getting her going on the Cowboy Up challenge shows- we hosted one here in Creston this year and I hope to have her ready for next year's show.
Here we were practicing the teeter totter bridge...

and here is her real opinion of it... we have a lot of work to do!

Chickory was sold to Fleetwood Farms in Alberta before she foaled, and she gave birth to a beautiful sorrel filly. When the owner found out that I had lost Gussie's twins, he very generously gave me Chickory's filly. We picked her up in mid August at 5 months old, and put her in with Stella for weaning. She's a beauty!

I registered her as Joleo Peppy, barn name is Josie- or Little Jo, as she is much smaller than Stella! She is all sorrel with only a tiny snip between her nostrils and a few white hairs on her forehead. She is for sale. This is one athletic filly, her cutting blood is really showing up in her. I'll do a separate post on her, complete with pedigree.

Starting off 2013 right

Some good things happening here this year. Chickory is doing well in her new home, it's a large ranch where she spends her days with a brood mare band, and this spring the new owner plans to breed her to his good grulla stud, Jazz Poco Goldun Blue. I plan on visiting there this year to see her Beamer baby, which is due in March.

Shining Midnite Moon (aka Nitro) who was sold to a lady in Cranbrook, was resold to a friend of my husband's and is now being boarded back with us. We are delighted to have him, and have the opportunity to watch this gorgeous boy grow up.

Speaking of gorgeous boys, Diamond Rio Peppy (aka Rio) is 2 this year, and his training is going really well. We've been doing a lot of ground work on him,. and yesterday he got to find out how it feels to have a rider on his back.

He was pretty relaxed about it as you can see by his soft eye. No, that's not me up there, it's a young lady who doesn't weigh much! She will be paired up with Rio for his upcoming show career. Rio will be going for 2 months of professional training this summer at Smith Training Stables, Ft. McLeod Alberta.
The horse in my header photo is Rio as a baby.

The ladies in waiting, Coyote Belle and Bar Dawn Sabre (Gussie) are both due to foal at the end of March. If Belle has a colt, it will be for sale, if it's a filly I'm keeping her. Gussie's foal will be for sale, we are hoping that her track record of blue roan babies holds for this one too.

Update

Just a post to bring you up to date on the status of the horses for sale here. Chickory, who was slated to go to Texas, had a laminitic episode the day she was to travel, so the sale was cancelled. We successfully treated her, and she is 100% sound, and has been sold to Alberta. She will be leaving in January. I'm kind of sad that I won't get to see her first foal being born, but the new owner has promised lots of photos.

Nitro (Shining Midnite Moon) is now living in Cranbrook B.C. with a possible future as a barrel horse.

Diamond Rio Peppy is still with us, he will be 2 in the spring and is a big boy. We haven't yet decided if he will remain a stallion or be gelded. we are hoping for a show career for him.

Coyote Belle and Gussie (Bar Dawn Sabre) are in foal for late March/early April foals. Gussie's foal will be for sale, and if Coyote Belle has another colt he will be for sale, but if it is a filly I'll be keeping her.

Gussie so far has thrown blue roans when bred to Beamer, so anyone interested in this foal should put the word in early- they sell fast.

2012 colt for sale SOLD!

Born April 6, 2012. Midnight Moon (name pending) also known as Nitro, will be offered for sale at weaning time, the end of August. The cross of Beamer and Belle continues to produce outstanding babies with top notch conformation and disposition.

Plenty of chrome on this boy! He loves to run, and does laps around the mares. Very athletic, he is already doing sliding stops and rollbacks. He is already halterbroke and leads well. As soon as I get his registration papers back from AQHA I'll post it on Allbreedpedigrees.

Edited to add: Registered name is Shining Midnite Moon
Edited to add: Sold September 2, 2012

Sold

We have a sale pending for Chickory, she'll be going to Texas.

Chickory is for sale

I'm offering Chickory for sale again, I just have too many to work with at the moment, so one of them has to go. Chickory is 4 this year, and still pretty green, but all the basics are in place, she just needs miles and someone to put her on cattle, it's what she's bred for. Here is her pedigree:
AV  Hickory Miss
Because she is green, I'm willing to negotiate on her price- my only concern is that she finds a good home. No dealers please.

Chickory update

Chickory did well at the trainers, he liked her and said the only thing wrong with her was that he didn't own her. She learns quickly, and is very light and responsive.

Rio and Chickory

My husband and I have decided to keep Rio for the time being, as Ted has taken quite a shine to him. We will see what next year brings and whether or not we will offer him for sale again then.

Rio and his daddy, Beamer

We are still offering Chickory (AV Hickory Miss) for sale. She is growing up to be a nice solid looking mare, stands 14.2, and is easy to handle. I have not put as much training on her as I wanted this year, so she is quite green. She will be headed to the trainer in October, unless she sells before then. Her price reflects her level of training. If she doesn't sell this year, she will be bred to Beamer next spring.