a welcome arrival

Gitana surprised us with an early filly today. She did a magnificent job as a maiden mare. The other mares stayed away, with one on "aunty duties", keeping the more curious ones away.

The filly is a good size and looks like she may be a dark buckskin. But she may also be brown. A bit hard to tell on the first day, and time will tell. But dad (Chango) is buckskin, so the yellow nose and slightly yellow cannons might indicate that she is heterozygous for the cream dilution.

Not that we care, what matters is that she is healthy, active and apparently well gaited. I think we'll call her Graciela.

getting ready for spring and summer!

update

I have updated the sales page and the mares page. Finally!

So far, there have been no firm enquiries on Chango, so he will go back to the asking price of $6,500 tonight. However, the mystery horse purchase will go ahead regardless, subject to a vet check and all that stuff. I will publish more news if and when he arrives.

Rolly was picked up and has gone to his new home at Carlyle Stud. He is such a pleasant fellow and I will miss him. I'm very happy that he has gone to a stud home. The foals we bred from him were very nice, and I hope that he will produce many more for his new owners.

 

Photos by Yvonne Lehey, July 2010

Easter Special

We are interested in buying another colt for our stud. To make vacant a stallion paddock (and let's face it.... make money!), we would like to sell another one of the stallions.

So we have decided to put Chango NS up for sale at the reduced/special price of $4,900 (AUD, incl.GST). This price is valid from today until 15 April 2012.

He has matured since this photo was taken, and looks even nicer now.

Interested? Contact us now.

foal!!

Samba had a lovely big and strong palomino colt this morning. The sire is Chango NS, our buckskin Peruvian Paso stallion. Samba is pure Paso Fino. The colt is already showing perfect gait.

The photo was taken this morning, when he was only a few hours old. More photos coming soon :-) And a name!

More photos here. (Thanks, Yvonne :-) )

December summary

We sent Narrawin Keyanna back home to her owner Geraldine in Melbourne. Keyanna was a lot of fun to work with her. So in a way I wasn't unhappy that we were delayed over and over during the cold and wet months. She is lovely (though of course I'm biased ;-) ).

I have continued writing my blog Chris's Thoughts on Horses. Some posts are about training, some on other stuff.

I stayed home for xmas and we just went out riding for fun and to exercise some of the more advanced young horses.

We bred MGR La Tigre (Imp.USA) to Ausome Compay and Samba to Chango NS. They'll be off for preg tests in early January. After a year off, it will be nice to see little critters on the place again!