FROM OUR CLIENTS

As time goes on. . . .  the horses we have sold are getting older.  Their new owners have been sending pictures and telling us how they are doing.  We appreciate hearing from them and would like to share them with you. 

 

Kyra and Spirit

here is a  picture from a horse show Idid in June he is going great and is a great pleasure to work with. My instructor has said he is going to be a keeper and is going to take me where i want to go thanks so much for this great horse
Karen
 

Ben Nevis


Ben Nevis (Clyde) is a 4 yr old Clyde/Tb, Bruce is just a cool guy, we won't say how old he is. . . . .

Clyde has some growing still to do, he has turned out to be a great partner for Bruce, definitely going to be tall enough. 

As of April 2005, Bruce has started jumping him, "he is fantastic" !   They plan on showing a lot this summer, dressage and eventing. 

Bruce says. . . . . He is so much fun, he should be illegal.

These pictures are from June 1st, 2005

 

 

 

 

FIFTY CALIBER

Also pictured on home page

I brought Caliber home mid April 2004 on a Saturday evening, it was my understanding that she had not had a rider atop...YET. By Sunday noon, I climbed on up, Caliber was Perfect!   My goal was to do 3 Day Eventing with her so I began training with Kathy Gilliland out of Arriba Vista Ranch in Sunol, California.

Within 3 months Caliber and I became Certified East Bay Mounted Patrollers! Caliber loves to swim in the lakes after patrolling the trails. We take off her saddle, I put on shorts and hop up. We go out and swim...really swim....up to her eyeballs she dog paddles in a big horse shoe and back to shore. Then we do it again, and again, and again. She loves the water!   We have taken numerous camping trips too. We go up to the high country for a week or two, she loves being a mountain horse on those trips, we go easy on her as she is still a baby!! In the middle of nowhere she high lines as if she had done that before. We crossed the Carson River, chest deep and flowing she did not even blink an eye.

February 2005 we began showing under the name Fifty Caliber. The judges love her. We have been in over 5 shows, here are some of the results:

Dressage Intro A: Blue Ribbon
Dressage Training 1: Blue Ribbon
Hunter under saddle: Fourth and a Blue Ribbon Hunter 18": Blue Ribbon
Hunter 2': Blue Ribbon
Hunter 2'3": Blue Ribbon
Combined Test: Third Place

We just won our Novice division at Eventful Acres in Oregon House, California May 22, 2005

2006 Up Date

First Novice Horst Trial August 2006; Fourth Place

November 2006 marks the close of our second season of Three
Day Eventing!

We finished at Ram Tap in Fresno, taking home 2ND place in
the Novice division on our dressage score of 30.0! 
Caliber was flawless! 

We have been training at Fox Hill Eventing with Mogie
Bearden-Muller and Ann Byron, (who used to ride for Tom and
Denise) for the last two months! 
 
Since moving over to Fox Hill, Calibers jumping has greatly
improved and we look forward to next season, moving up and
competing at Training Level!!

Caliber is now 5 1/2 years old, stands 17.2, is well
muscled, willing, balanced and solid all the way around!!
 

 

CUESTA

Quinn bought Cuesta a few months ago. Cuesta is a 4 yr old Clyde/TB and Quinn is 10 years old.   Cuesta and her fell in love the day they met.  We think Cuesta  picked her!  They now live in southern California, stabling at Cota De Caza, in Orange County and as you can see from the picture they are having Fun!
 

Don and Lynn, we have bought many horses from you and they all grow up to be stars!  The two we just received from you though they are weanlings and yearlings already are easy to handle and are showing a lot of promise.  Thank you for for going the extra mile and handling the babies before you ship them, it makes all the difference in the world!

We are excited about this new colt, he may be too fancy to sell! Your stallion "Devil's Wish" is producing some really talented horses, our "Dressage Friends" are very impressed.

Thanks again for your your wonderful horses, we will be back next year. . . .

Denise & Tom Peterson

 

 

 

 

 
Sienna (far right, ) is our favorite.  Here she is shown at the practice Hound Performance Trial in Fitzpatrick, Alabama, September of 06.  Left is Mason Lampton, president of the MFHA and master of Midland Hounds, Georgia; center is Garrick Steel, joint master at  Fox River Valley; and right is Epp Wilson, Chairman of the MFHA Centennial Hound Performance Trials and joint master at Belle Meade Hunt, Georgia.  Sienna is six now, about 17.2hh, and has become the perfect “master’s horse”—she is fast  and hardy enough to keep up with hounds on a coyote for over an hour, but obedient enough to ride at the back of the field so Epp can chat with the other riders.  She loves attention and is a joy to have as part of the family.

 

 

 

 
Quincy (Silver Concho) (CLydesdale/TB) is doing well.  He competed at a few shows this past year and did very well at training level.  He is sweet as can be, and Victoria loves him very much.