Welcome Scrappy

**Check out the updated pics below!**

I needed another horse like I needed more barn cats. Scrappy is a yearling AQHA filly. I went to look at Scrappy on a whim (and under pressure from my mom!) because I liked her bloodlines and was interested in buying a riding prospect. She was also about 10 minutes from my house. She was definitely a "prospect" but quite promising. I saw her sire and dam on the premises and picked out her 3yr old full brother as my favorite on the place before I knew his relation. Her sire has won about $30,000 in NCHA cutting and her dam is by an NCHA money earner.

I think that Scrappy will be fun to ride in the Pat Wyse clinics when she grows up. She is eating me out of house and home and getting up to speed on her schooling. She is more challenging than my point and shoot Smarty foals but is coming along.

I bought Scrappy April 13th, 2011 (13 is a lucky number, right?). The first picture is Scrappy the day after I brought her home. The head shot and picture at the hitching rail were taken a few weeks later. The picture of her grazing was taken after about six weeks.

**Update**The 5th and 6th pictures were taken in September 2011. Scrappy now fits in with my herd even though she's a bit small for her age. My other yearling, Peppy, is definitely the ringleader but Scrappy has emerged from her shell quite nicely.
 



**Another Update**
Last pic is of Scrappy saddled upon December 31, 2011.

Sold Horses

I sold a few horses since last fall. Turbo, my 2008 gelding, and Dusty aka Frosty, the grulla 2010 filly out of Barts Quincy T, sold to Janice and Roley Schoonover of Western Pleasure Guest Ranch. They've done a great job starting Turbo under saddle and I got to watch him show off his moves at the Pat Wyse clinic in Sandpoint in April. It has been determined that Turbo should have been named something else because there is not a fast bone in his body! Turbo is sired by Dreams Reward (by Dreamfinder) and out of a mare I used to own, Quincys Sparkee (by Stardee). Frosty has changed colors from a black/grulla with spots over her hips to a brown roan. I imagine she will end up a varnish roan like her dam. Frosty is by Smarty and her dam is a daughter of Mighty Black Bart. If all goes as planned, Turbo and Frosty will eventually end up in the guest string at Western Pleasure.

I sold Blaze (Willie B Smart), my 2007 red roan blanketed gelding, to Tami Moyer. Blaze is by Smarty and out of a Geneo JJ daughter. He had about 70 rides on him when Tami took over. She intends to barrel race Blaze once he has some more miles on him. Tami holds various Omoksee speed records on her current Appaloosa gelding, Rocky, and now races him in 4D barrels at the age of 18. When Tami and I started communicating about Blaze, neither of us knew that her Rocky was a colt that my mom raised and I rode to win a 2yr old Western Pleasure Futurity back in 1995! It really is a small world and it was wonderful to see Rocky after so many years!

Pictures are of Rocky and Blaze tied to the trailer (talk about a nearly matched pair!), Frosty at 5 days old, Turbo tied to the hitching rail as a long 2yr old on the day he was picked up, and Blaze alone tied to the trailer.

Smart Little Colt

Annie (An T She Sweet) foaled a smartly colored colt by Smarty (Smart Little Sign) on May 20th. He is Smarty's only foal coming in 2011 and he's just perfect! He is not for sale as I can't wait to put a leg over him!