Friday, September 14, 2007

Kentucky 2007: The Hunter Pony Sale at KHP!

Here are photos from the American Hunter Pony Classic Sale on August 15th at the Kentucky Horse Park. This sale was held in conjunction with the 2007 USEF Pony Finals! In the bottom photo, you see a pony who is related to the stud that is the sire of Hailee's foal. We watched the sale of a few ponies by Blue Who (Hailee's foal's sire) and Blue Rain, the sire of Blue Who. The ponies were selling in the $5,700 to $17,000 range with the lower priced one being a very young 2 year-old who is already 14.1 hands -- people were worried about that pony growing taller than the pony height of 14.2 hands. The higher priced ponies were those which were perfectly 3 to 7 years of age and comfortably below 14.2. We bred Hailee who is 14.2 and a 3/4s inch to a 11 hand pony, so we hope to get an athletic, powerful, graceful, agile medium pony with the best of the Welsh and the sweet coolness of Hailee!