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A mystery illness

A quick spiral downward I thought she was dying. She was sweating profusely but her skin was cold to the touch. She was stumbling around, blind despite her wide-open eyes with the pupil dilated even in full sunlight. She leaned into the fence as if she wanted to push it down with her chest. She was so confused and afraid, blind and deaf but desperately trying to find solace and security. In my 30 some years with horses I had never seen this. It looked like the death throes of a horse about to die-or so I thought. I had never seen that either. The day before she...

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Why breeding horses is not really a business.

Breeding horses is not really a business. (Or at the very least: a business like no others.) Tax season is around the corner and I have to compile expenses and revenues. This time of the year is always a moment of brutal honesty when it comes to the money aspect of breeding and selling sport horses. Numbers don't lie. Pretty pictures don't pay the vet. Once more I have to ponder the economic realities of the year that was and look for ways to improve and to "sharpen the tools" as one might say. I do breed horses in order to sell foals and young horses. I do...

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Our Alumna-San Raphael

San Raphael is a dark bay gelding born in 2014  and registered with Oldenburg (premium mention).   Raphiola by RioGrande had so far produced some really nice foals by jumper stallions and one by Hotline that we thought was developing very well (Redline). And so we wanted to try another dressage type stallion with her and see if that adage of breeding jumper line with dressage line to produce horses with plenty of canter and jump would work out again in our favor. As you know we try to go with proven sire and frankly they don’t come much more proven then Sandro Hit and so we opted...

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Our Alumna-San Diego

San Diego was one of the three Donation babies born that year. He was an ET born by the sweet QH mare Bonnie. He was the first to arrive and he looked so much like his dam from the start except he had huge ears! He was born contracted over the knees and that took about two months to resolve. With limited turn out he got to spend a lot of time with us and with his big ball that he loved to chase around and pounce on. Once he was able to rejoin his brother and sister the three were inseparable and he spent long months with...

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