How about a pint sized Curly???

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I have been casually looking for the past couple of years for a mini mare that might we suitable to breed to a Curly stallion - well, a few weeks ago I heard about a little girl that sounded like she could be suitable so I inquired about her and as of November 26th, 2005 she became a happy new resident of our farm. This is Strawberry Shortcake, she is supposed to be about 36 inches tall, but I haven't measured her yet...

Now if you know my farm at all you may be wondering if I would use *Sandman with her and while the lure of his ability to throw 100 percent Curly foals is there, his filly with *Cinnamon was quite large (as all his foals seem to be), so no I would not risk this cross with a mini mare. Luckily, I have *VJB Man In The Moon, aka Lex here at our farm and having struck a deal with his owner Wendy Hale, I will be using him with both *Cinnamon and Shortcake - wow I can't wait for my 2007 foal crop already - talk about living in the future - LOL.

Now Shortcake came with an incredibly cute "companion" - this is Shadow, he is a little bit smaller than her and he is a "dwarf", fortunately he is gelded - this should never be bred into any type of horse. Having said that, he is INCREDIBLY cute - he is soooo sweet, gentle and kind - what a wonderful pet he is! Fun on the farm!

New Addition

When I heard that an own daughter of *Sockeye was available for sale right next door in Alberta, and she was an extreme I just knew we had to add her to our herd. I have long wanted to add an extreme mare and this girl looked really good (thanks Denise for telling us about her!). Enter Maryan, my friend and riding buddy and voila! we partnered up to purchase *RR Black Magic Woman. Now that is a long "handle" and while a pretty name (all the horses from Verlin's breeding stock are named after songs!), we needed a barn name for this girl. Verlin was calling her *BMW, but while that is slick it just didn't roll off our tongue as we would like and so what else could we call her but "*Beamer" LOL. It suits her well.

*Beamer is a 2002 mare and she will be saddle trained over the winter/spring of 2005/2006, we are strongly considering having her trained for reining - wow has she got the moves! Beamer will also be bred in the spring of 2006, but we will not be crossing her with *Sandman as we do not want to double up on what is likely a double dominant gene in both of these fine horses. So Maryan and I have the winter to decide what type of stallion to choose for our pretty new girl - what fun!

Check back as her training begins - she is a pretty girl and so sweet and sensitive!