I ran 3 great grandbabies of his, they were all out of the same dam who was a grand daughter of his on her top side. Mine are all incredibley intelligent, the smaller mare is 18 and her first 3-4 running steps still scare the bejeus out of me, the big mare is dirty fast and the gelding is big and powerful with a stride that a lot of people thought "oh, that was a pretty run, too bad he isn't faster..." and then they'd announce his time. The bigger the pen, the better. He was built for Pendleton and loved it there. The little mare can run on any type of ground, the big mare is super ratey and the gelding is the most honest animal you could ever hope to throw a leg over, show all of them something a time or two and they have it. Hadn't run the big mare in almost 11 years due to a trailer accident that she came out of with Head Shaker syndrome, trotted her down the creek to an arena that decided to host a gymkhana. Not only she did eat up the barrel pattern, she almost lost me at the 2nd barrel, she remembered and ate up the other 2 events I stayed for,even remembering when I didn't which direction she ran them, LOL!!! Like I said, INTELLIGENT!!! The gelding I showed reined cow horse also as well as ranch horse versatily . Secretariat as a lot of people know was a freak, you can't neccisarily breed for those and I think early on they figured they could breed him to a donkey and get a runner. His strengths came out later thru his mare lines. Find those. First 2 photos are the gelding, 2nd two are the "little" mare who is 15.1 but little at our place and the last 2 photos are the big mare and her first run in 11 years. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4780479185380571&set=pb.100002556096270.-2207520000..&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4477011632393996&set=pb.100002556096270.-2207520000..&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3403836959711474&set=pb.100002556096270.-2207520000..&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2789825604445949&set=pb.100002556096270.-2207520000..&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2716062981822212&set=pb.100002556096270.-2207520000..&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3157860734281583&set=t.100002556096270
Edited by run n rate 2022-06-01 1:00 PM
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