Easter Delivery!

Easter Sunday - at the lovely hour of 8:30 in the morning, our beautiful snowcap Appaloosa mare Poplar's Sea Pearl gave birth to an Easter baby :) yet, another filly - this has been a year of fillies for us so far!  So far this filly has minimal appaloosa colour in her coat - but she has all the characteristics markings of an appy, which mostly likely means she will get more colour as she matures.  Here is a picture of her dam:

Here are photos of the lovely filly :)  She belongs to my friend Joan Collins.

Shelly
http://www.curlystandardplace.com

Curly Standard Place happenings

*Icon and Divinity are settling in - Anastasia lunged D yesterday and they did great :)  I gave *Icon a bath yesterday and he was such a good boy!  He will have to be good for baths, with all that white on him!  Here are a couple of pictures of him stretching his legs:

He sure is a beautiful boy!  I am just so excited to have him!

We went for a trail ride this weekend and got this photo of WSL and I - it was a great ride!

Shelly
http://www.curlystandardplace.com

We have been afforded the privilege of adding to our herd an incredible quality black pinto Curly stallion *BCF Icon.

*Icon comes from the top notch Curly breeding program of Bashcurl Farm in Jefferson, Georgia.  He made the long trip from GA to our farm in Summerland, BC in March of 2011. 

We are incredibly thrilled to have this horse here now and we will promote, show, breed him to the best of our ability.  He will be and exceptional cross with our *Sandman daughters and he will also be available to outside mares for breeding.
Shelly in Summerland, BC Canada
Curly Standard Place

DKH Lacey has a girl!

In the early hours of today (March 28th, 2011) DKH Lacey, our s/c Curly mare gave birth to a HUGE Curly filly!  Lacey was a very good girl and event though she is still hesitant around people she was very tolerant of us being in attendance of her giving birth.  The filly is huge, healthy happy and vigorous!  I am going to regretfully offer her for sale - these big Curlies are hard to come by though - so someone will get a really special horse!

Anyhow, our foaling season is going well - two safely on the ground, two to go!  We couldn't be happier!
Shelly
http://www.curlystandardplace.com

Beautiful new baby girl!

March 20, 2011, our beautiful and athletic purebred Arabian mare Mirage has given birth to a perfect, bright red, sabino, purebred Arabian filly.  Here she is!

So far we haven't yet named her, but stay tuned as we will come up with something perfect for this wonderful new addition to our farm.
She is perky, athletic, healthy and very very friendly - typical Arabian!  These are just some of the reasons that I love to cross our Curlies with Arabians.  This filly will be an eventual replacement for our mare Mirage, but we have plans to rebreed Mirage to *Icon for a 2012 foal.  Wow, that will be another exceptional cross!
Here is one more of the little sweetie.

Shelly
Curly Standard Place

More exciting news!

*BCF Divinity - yes, this is our second big announcement.  This "exceptional" mare will be coming to our farm at the same time when we get *BCF Icon.  This mare is all that a sport-type Curly horse should be, here is what her former owner says on her website about Divinity:

2004 Curly Sporthorse Mare  -  Infinite  Potential
If you want to take a curly Grand Prix competitively  - This is the horse for you.
The experts say this one has what it takes to go ALL THE WAY !! 

We are incredibly excited to have this mare at our farm.  Anastasia in particular as she intends to ride and show Divinity!

Stay tuned on how she does for us :)

Shelly
http://www.curlystandardplace.com 

 

Our Big Announcement - please welcome *BCF Icon !

Okay - here is the big announcement! I have been breeding Curly horses for about 10 years now and I have been more than happy with my stallion *Sandman's Magic. However, I do know that new blood is needed in a breeding program and I have kept my eyes open for a stallion that I think could be the next generation of Curly, one that could compliment my SM babies and also be of exceptional quality to offer at stud. I found him - please welcome *BCF Icon.

 

Poplar's Sea Pearl

Poplar's Sea Pearl is another horse at the Curly Standard Place that I don't talk about too much.

She is an absolutely gorgeous, loud, snowcap, registered Appaloosa mare.  Snowcaps are known to be 100% colour producers!  Pearl came to me from the excellent breeding program of Joan Collins in Oregon.  Joan has been a huge help to me for all the time I have been breeding Curlies - including helping me to find my *Sandman originally!  At one time she even owned *Sandman's sire, *Juper's Magic Carpet.  As a segway - here is a photo of *Juper's Magic Carpet, aka *Cooper:

Okay - so more about Pearl :)
Pearl is so lovely - but she is more than that, she has the most calm, wonderful, gentle temperament and I just know she will pass this on to her foals.  She is bred to *Sandman for a guaranteed colorful, Curly foal, she is due in March/April, so pretty soon!  This first foal goes back to Joan - she no longer has any Curlies, so I guess she wanted to have one and why not have the whole package?!  With Pearl and *Sandman, this foal is sure to be outstanding.
Pearl is also a very well bred Appaloosa - here is a link to her pedigree.
Here are a few more photos of her.  She has not been offered for sale, but she will be bred back to *Sandman for a 2012 foal and I would consider selling or leasing her to a really great home.

Enjoy and tell your friends about my horses and my blog LOL.
Shelly in Summerland, BC Canada
http://www.curlystandardplace.com

All the horses of the Curly Standard Place

I have quite a few horses - some of them I rarely talk about as they are keepers an I have no plans to sell them.  I thought it would be a good idea to talk about each of them - I will try to o one a week :)

So last week I said a few words about Mirage - she is my oh-so-fun Arabian mare.  This week I will talk about her daughter  *Sandman's Serenade *Serenade is sired by our stallion *Sandman's Magic and she was born in 2007, which means she is rising 4 this year and we are starting her under saddle. She has the most delightful, sweet temperament of any horse that you might hope to meet- absolutely wonderful.  She has a good work ethic and we are really looking forward to riding her this year.  Myself, I am really hoping that she is as competitive as her dam - if she is then she will be just amazing and perhaps a horse that we can do 50 or even 100 mile endurance rides on eventually!  *Serenade is no very big, but she is already a bit bigger than her dam - I measured her the other day, she was 14.3hh, this surprised me as I didn't think she was quite that tall, but there you go!

Here are a few photos of her working on the lunge line and one of her with my allergic daughter Anastasia.

Until next time :)
Shelly
http://www.curlystandardplace.com

RJ Light Serenade (aka Mirage)

This post is not about Curlies - it is about my purebred Arabian mare RJ Light Serenade, aka Mirage.  Mirage is on of my all time favorite riding horses, she is full of GO and yet fun and easy to ride for an experienced rider.
Here is a picture of us on one of our endurance rides together, she is preggers in this photo!

So Mirage is due to have her second foal for us next month - she is quite gigantic! I spent quite a bit of time today grooming her- she is shedding like crazy and she loved the attention!

Here re a couple of pictures of purebred Arabian stallion that she is bred to:

Fantastic colour on this boy - we are hoping he throws a bit of it my way!  I am really hoping for a filly to replace Mirage eventually - she is a fantastic mare and she is now 18 - she has an old leg injury that will dictate how many more years I get to enjoy my girl.

The first foal that we had from Mirage was almost 4 years ago now - she was a *Sandman baby - ooops!  This IS about Curlies too!  Anyhow, here is Mirages 2007 filly *Sandman' Serenade - a real chip off of both mom and dad.

Until next time!
Shelly
http://www.curlystandardplace.com