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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | I didn't mean to sidetrack the clone thread when I got OT about recipient mares. And Lena May's babies were brought up so I thought I'd just start my own thread. I don't get on her a lot to post these days but I had a few minutes today before I head off to an appointment so here goes. Pictures to follow below. :) |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | This is the oldest. She is by Firewater Finale. She's appropriately named Bratzilla. She's a 3 year old and I just started her on barrels last week. I am very excited about her.
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Lena May has three 2 year olds this year. Two of them were colts, we gelded and sold them as babies. One is out in Washington state, the other is in OK with a very capable futurity trainer! So we are excited to see what they do! They are both by Firewater Finale, so they are full brothers to Bratzilla whom I posted pictures of above.
We kept her 2 year old filly. She's named Palena. She is sired by our stallion, Frostman San Peppy, "Pablo". He 's a son of Frenchmans Guy that I ran and won a lot in 10 years ago. This filly is going to be started under saddle in the next month.
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Location: NE Texas | Yay!!!! So glad you posted these pics! VERY NICE!!!! |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | We have two long yearlings out of Lena May. One is an embryo transfer, sired by Pablo, the FG son that we have. Here's the yearling by Pablo. Her name is Bernadette. She was pulled out of the pasture so we didn't exactly groom her up for the picture LOL. (full sister to the palomino filly above):
The other one is by Firewater Finale. We named her Bazinga. Long story short, we bred Lena May and flushed her and didn't get an embryo. Normally you would give a Lutalyse injection to either shorty cycle the mare back but since it was July when we did the last flush that year, we didn't bother. We didn't bring her back in to check her for a pregnancy since nothing came out in the flush. A few months later she had a big tummy...for Lena anyway.....well she was baking this filly. So that is how she got the name of Bazinga. The joke was on us. This is a full sister to Bratzilla. She is really, really naughty. And the only one so far that Lena May has carried. She was pouting VERY BADLY in this picture.
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Since Bazinga was born late, we didn't breed or flush Lena May last year. We gave her the year off from all of that stuff. We flushed her once this past spring, to French Streaktovegas. We are expecting a foal via recip mare, sometime in April 2015. We are planning to flush her once to Firewater Finale again, in the spring. She had no problems carrying and raising Bazinga, but I feel it is less stress on her bad leg, to let a recip mare do the work for her.  |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Here is a video of Bratzilla loping through the barrels for the very first time. She had 30 days riding last year as a 2 year old. She was turned out for nearly a full year and I just brought her in from the pasture 30 days ago. I've been riding her every day I have been home, and this was only her 4th day on the barrel pattern. She's like both of her parents....a natural in every way and I can't wait to run her at the futurities. I am planning to wait until she is 5 but if she lets me know she's ready sooner, we may be going this fall. Time will tell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15ArheDgk4&feature=youtu.be
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| Bratzilla looks amazing! Oh and Bazinga could come be a naughty brat at my house any time. :) |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | rockinas - 2014-11-20 3:25 PM Here is a video of Bratzilla loping through the barrels for the very first time. She had 30 days riding last year as a 2 year old. She was turned out for nearly a full year and I just brought her in from the pasture 30 days ago. I've been riding her every day I have been home, and this was only her 4th day on the barrel pattern. She's like both of her parents....a natural in every way and I can't wait to run her at the futurities. I am planning to wait until she is 5 but if she lets me know she's ready sooner, we may be going this fall. Time will tell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15ArheDgk4&feature=youtu.be
Awesome! You weren't lying about her being a natural |
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| All very nice, but I especially like Bernadette! ME want!! |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Thanks everyone! I am going to have to run here, but will check back later. Enjoy the rest of your day. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Thank you for posting those good looking babies. They are all amazing and Bratzilla...well she is definetly a natural! Good luck! |
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Location: USA | Wow, wow, wow! Amy! They are all incredible!
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| Bernadette can come to KS!!! :) I really love her!!
Nice set of babies! Congrats Amy! |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Bazinga can come live at my house!!
All of them are very nice. I have been waiting to see what Bratzilla would make ever since she hit the ground! Nice babies! |
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Location: The edge of no where | Love them!!! Dang, you've got a pastureful of super nice ones!!! |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | sodapop - 2014-11-20 6:06 PM Were these pictures taken this month... November? I ask because the grass is so green in the pictures and the horses are pretty slick. I would think your grass would be dead now and or covered in snow. LOL
The pics were all taken the end of September of this year.
These fillies were all pulled out of the pasture and haltered for the first time in months when we took them. No grain or supplements. They look this good on pasture. Obviously they have winter hair now but they are still in great shape. :) |
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Location: Wasagaming, Manitoba, Canada | I really am so excited for you!! I love horses with big personalities and well... you have a pen of them ! I can barely wait for you to be able to run them, can't imagine what you are feeling  |
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Location: western Nebraska | I can't wait to see them all shining in the barrel pen! Congrats on your program-it is amazing. |
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Location: Central Montana | Very nice group of horses.
I so wish one day I could sit and talk to you about all the repo knowledge you have! |
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Location: Montana | rockinas - 2014-11-20 2:25 PM Here is a video of Bratzilla loping through the barrels for the very first time. She had 30 days riding last year as a 2 year old. She was turned out for nearly a full year and I just brought her in from the pasture 30 days ago. I've been riding her every day I have been home, and this was only her 4th day on the barrel pattern. She's like both of her parents....a natural in every way and I can't wait to run her at the futurities. I am planning to wait until she is 5 but if she lets me know she's ready sooner, we may be going this fall. Time will tell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15ArheDgk4&feature=youtu.be
Wow! Nice lope through! She'll be ready to go before you know it! |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Thank you all. It is an exciting feeling seeing one before it was ever even born, to getting to ride it for the first time, to getting to start it on barrels all on your own. I am very lucky to have been able to have the experience. It will all be even more exciting the first time I ever get to actually run her somewhere. It's been quite a trip, that's for sure. But it will be fun to see where it all ends up. |
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Location: Pelham, TN | I see many more champions in the making here! Great looking colts with bloodlines to match!!! |
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| Geez, for a first lope through, I am IMPRESSED - no kidding on being a natural! |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Griz - 2014-11-21 5:33 AM Geez, for a first lope through, I am IMPRESSED - no kidding on being a natural!
Thanks. It helps to have them started under saddle the right way and I put a lot of miles on these babies in a months time. That way it's easy to start them on the pattern. I only work my 3yros a couple times a week on the pattern so it takes me awhile to get 30 days on them. But they're usually pretty solid just because of all the other things we do with them. That sure makes things easy later on. I'm anxious to see where she will be when i
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| Oh my goodness. Haven't been on in awhile and it's so nice to see any update on Lena mays babies. It's amazing how the time how's flown-well at least for me. I'm sure not fast enough for you to be able to ride and start on the pattern. LOL. Some super stars you got there. Bratzilla is a working thing-so natural. Bet its the best feeling. Blood sweat and tears paying off. Congrats. |
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| She's an App right? Does she have regular papers? Were you able to register any of the foals?
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | SpottedT - 2014-11-21 9:58 AM She's an App right? Does she have regular papers? Were you able to register any of the foals? Lena May is an App.
I am registering all of her foals through the AHQHR. They are eligible for all of the incentives that any other futurity horse would be eligible for with these papers.
ApHC is much more concerned about being a color breed than registering foals with great performance genetics so I said to heck with them. Since Lena is solid and the stallions we've bred her to were AQHA the ApHC will not accept the into their registry unless they are gelded or spayed.
I could register her foals if I bred her to an ApHC colored stud----haven't seen one yet I'd breed her to.
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Location: NE Texas | rockinas - 2014-11-21 11:35 AM SpottedT - 2014-11-21 9:58 AM She's an App right? Does she have regular papers? Were you able to register any of the foals? Lena May is an App.
I am registering all of her foals through the AHQHR. They are eligible for all of the incentives that any other futurity horse would be eligible for with these papers.
ApHC is much more concerned about being a color breed than registering foals with great performance genetics so I said to heck with them. Since Lena is solid and the stallions we've bred her to were AQHA the ApHC will not accept the into their registry unless they are gelded or spayed.
I could register her foals if I bred her to an ApHC colored stud----haven't seen one yet I'd breed her to.
Wow....I had no idea the ApHC was so ridiculous on the color standards and registrations! That's insane and such a shame, as those colts you're raising out of Lena May ought to be exactly what they'd want in their registry. Now I understand the breeding for color deal and maintaining the color, but they should still accept her foals i'd think! |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Herbie - 2014-11-21 11:44 AM Wow....I had no idea the ApHC was so ridiculous on the color standards and registrations! That's insane and such a shame, as those colts you're raising out of Lena May ought to be exactly what they'd want in their registry. Now I understand the breeding for color deal and maintaining the color, but they should still accept her foals i'd think! I agree! But you can't register foals by an AQHA stallion out of what they call a non characteristic App. Which is what Lena May is considered to be.
Her foals can get hardship papers through ApHC if they are gelded (no big deal there) or spayed fillies (not gonna happen).
The best part of all of that is that 4 out of 6 of her foals so far, have had App traits. But.....they don't want them unless they are 'fixed'. Ridiculous, I agree.
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Location: Kansas | rockinas - 2014-11-21 11:35 AM SpottedT - 2014-11-21 9:58 AM She's an App right? Does she have regular papers? Were you able to register any of the foals? Lena May is an App.
I am registering all of her foals through the AHQHR. They are eligible for all of the incentives that any other futurity horse would be eligible for with these papers.
ApHC is much more concerned about being a color breed than registering foals with great performance genetics so I said to heck with them. Since Lena is solid and the stallions we've bred her to were AQHA the ApHC will not accept the into their registry unless they are gelded or spayed.
I could register her foals if I bred her to an ApHC colored stud----haven't seen one yet I'd breed her to.
There is one I've seen on facebook. a nice looking sucker at that. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/jess+special2 |
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| I WANT Bernadette and Bazinga! Super nice crop of babies there Amy. And I am such a sucker for a sorrel rabicano - but even if she were white with pink polka dots - LOVE her conformation. |
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Location: Vinton, La. | I've really enjoyed all of the pictures and videos. Love Bratzilla. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Yeah I saw him and he's really nice. But his dam is a half sister to Lena's sire. I am not sure I want to line breed.
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Lena May's babies--for non Facebook people. :)