Here is a photo of Hailee right before Christmas. I stopped by to see her before heading up to my sister's house. Hailee's mom is Docs Blue Rock Dawn. And you know how I always say that Hailee gets her agility, athleticism, grace, and quickness from her daddy's side through Easy Jet. Well, her mom's side is pretty stacked on speed, resilience, laser sharp response too! Docs Blue Rock Dawn is a 1987 Quarter Horse with major amounts of cutting, reining, and racing in her background. Some of her near relatives are Doc Clabber, her grandpa, who was a superior cutting horse and western pleasure horse, reserve high point stallion, and produced many, many Reining and Cutting Horse Association babies. His daddy was Doc Bar, both a AQHA and NCHA Hall of Fame horse who is the leading sire of world champion cutters. He is the #1 all-time leading maternal grandsire of cutters and produced countless AQHA and NCHA cutting horses, including 27 AQHA champions. She's got Clabber and his kid, Clabber II, two champion Quarter Horse runners. Clabber II set two new track records, and his daddy was named the very first World Champion Quarter Running Horse and is the leading maternal gradsire of Race ROMs.
Docs Blue Rock Dawn also has Do Good, a Quarter Horse mare who served as the foundation mare for a running horse enterprise. She's got Texas Dandy an AQHA Hall of Famer, and Poco Bueno, a Hall of Famer in the AQHA, NCHA, and Cow Horse Hall of Fame. She's got Oklahoma Star who was registered as 100% foundation horse, and she's got Black Beggar, the kid of Black Gold's (Kentucky Derby winner) full brother, Beggar Boy. She also has the Kentucky Derby winner, Hindoo in this tree.
So, you can see that if a cow needs roping, a herd needs chasing, or a barrel needs circling, Hailee should be good to go through her lovely mom. In fact, I am often so very delighted and surprised by how light and graceful Hailee is on her feet. Even deep in her 7th month of pregnancy, she has the lightest, sweetest, smoothest canter, and does these relaxed, carefree, thoughtfree flying lead changes. She's truly a marvel. I wish I had a picture of her mother to see the resemblances!