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Location: Central Iowa | Thoughts, opinions and/or experiences on them? Anyone been around them much? |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I had a Hot Colours daughter that was out of a Calyx daughter. She was very stand offish. Very pretty mare and we really liked her babies that were by our Burrs First Down stud, but she and another HC mare I had had terrible feet. The one had foundered before we owned her and had issues again when she got older. The Calyx bred one ended up developing IR and foundered one fall when we had a late rain and the grass grew after a drought. So any issues I had the mare I think was the HC and not the Calyx. I've heard they can be opinionated to ride, but most are no closer up than grandget so I don't think you could judge a whole lot on just the Calyx alone. |
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Location: Central Iowa | wyoming barrel racer - 2017-12-11 1:31 PM
I had a Hot Colours daughter that was out of a Calyx daughter. She was very stand offish. Very pretty mare and we really liked her babies that were by our Burrs First Down stud, but she and another HC mare I had had terrible feet. The one had foundered before we owned her and had issues again when she got older. The Calyx bred one ended up developing IR and foundered one fall when we had a late rain and the grass grew after a drought. So any issues I had the mare I think was the HC and not the Calyx. I've heard they can be opinionated to ride, but most are no closer up than grandget so I don't think you could judge a whole lot on just the Calyx alone.
Thank you so much. Yes this mare is a grandget and I know and love everything else on her papers but just not familiar with Calyx. She is out of a race winning daughter of Calyx and Easy Jet on bottom. Thank you again. |
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| I've heard they can be mean but I haven't had any experiences like that. I have a mare who is a granddaughter (her dam is a Calyx daughter). She is very sweet and talented and was easy to train. I like her so much I bought a weanling last year out of a (different) Calyx daughter. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | tj135 - 2017-12-11 12:52 PM I've heard they can be mean but I haven't had any experiences like that. I have a mare who is a granddaughter (her dam is a Calyx daughter). She is very sweet and talented and was easy to train. I like her so much I bought a weanling last year out of a (different) Calyx daughter.
I read somewhere that it came from the mare Trippy Dip. She was a hell of a producer but supposedly had a bad attitude? |
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| Had a daughter of Calyx. She was the most gorgeous and talented horse alive, but had ZERO WORK ETHIC.... SHe was at the track and would win races when she " Felt like it" easily... then just not try. She was the same way in the barrel pen... Of course had her vetted head to toe and some days she would be 1D and outrun everyone by 3/10ths and the next weekend, smooth but 4D. |
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Location: WYOMING | Diiiislike! |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | I met one who was stabled where my first race horse was. I think her name was Jetta Easy Cash, if I remember correctly. Beautiful mare. Standoffish is how I would describe her. I always look at horses with Trippy Dip in them. Never had one, but she sure looks good on paper. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Yeah, that was her, Jetta Easy Cash. Such a beautiful mare to look at. I wanted her very bad, but she did seem to have a semi bad attitude.....could have been where she was though.
http://allbreedpedigree.com/jetta+easy+cash
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| Owned a gelding by Calyx. Hot headed, but so athletic, gorgeous and talented. He ended up breaking his navicular and never recovered fully to run again. Hayzexpress.
I think he did have a mean streak when I went to purchase - he'd try to bite and would kick up when asked to do something. I guess our personalities worked, as he quit that attitude about a week after I purchased him and he was more then willing.
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| I bought the most gorgeous daughter of Calyx, she was a runner and the sweetest most kind mare we have ever owned. She could be hot headed and you had to know how to get around her to ride but that mostly consisted of just staying out of her face. We brought her home for a rest before returning to the track and she pulled a hamstring so bad she couldn't run again. I had a 4H girl who lost her horse so we threw her on this mare and put them in the show ring straight off the track. You couldn't beat this mare in a western or English pleasure class around here. She literally loved to be looked at. I kept her first filly as a broodmare and she has given us some of our nicest colts over the years. Both mares are gone now but I have daughters and granddaughters left. All of those horses are loves, sweet and kind, a little hot at times and the stay off their heads thing came down. All the colts hate to have you get in their face when they work, but are soft and light to work. My mare was out of a TB by Impressive (TB) sire not the halter horse. She has one daughter who is going on barrels finally, they had her a little messed up for a while but a good trainer has her all lined out now and she has a cool style. I am getting a gelding out of her ready as well. All of mine have been sounds, pretty smart, kind and easy for the most part. These two pics are of full sisters out of a granddaughter of Calyx.
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | My husband claimed a son of Calyx several years ago. He was a HOT number and bucked everytime he went to the track to gallop or work. However on race day he was 100% business and never ran worse than third during the two years we ran him. Was really quick out of the gates and had speed indexes over 100 at several different distances. My husband wanted me or our daughter to ride him and start him on barrels. We both declined as he was just too rank.
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Location: Texas | ropinbuzz - 2017-12-11 1:18 PM Thoughts, opinions and/or experiences on them? Anyone been around them much?
not a fan. If you are breeding to sell colt the Calyx will hurt their price. I hear they can be tough to start. |
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