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