Docs Blue Rock Dawn and My Girls!

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!

Useeit and My Girls!

So, check this out! One of Hailee's relatives has a book written about her, called Black Gold by the famous Marguerite Henry! Useeit by Bonnie Joe and Effie M was a 1907 thoroughbred mare who is now rumored to have been a Quarter horse and who was dragged all over the West, Mexico and Louisiana to race for Al and Rosa Hoots. She produced the 1924 Kentucky Derby winner, Black Gold, via Black Toney, but he was sterile, poor thing, which ultimately led to his untimely death on the Fairgrounds track in New Orleans.

But, his full brother, Beggar Boy, is Hailee's relative on her mom's side, Docs Blue Rock Dawn. Beggar Boy is the sire of 4 AQHA Race ROMS and 20 AQUA daughters producing ROMS.

Violet is not related to Useeit, but has her boyfriend, Black Toney in several lines in her Dame Francesca line on her dad's side, Groomstick!

I am definitely treating myself to the read of Black Gold again. I remember that fabulous book as a child, and now I am a lucky woman who has a family member from that great American family tree in my pedigree!

Breed Spotlight! Paints!

An All-American Breed, the Paint, is historically important for understanding our values. The Paint is the 2nd largest breed registry in the United States, if you consider annual registrations. The horse comes in three kinds of coat patterns -- tobiano, overo, and tovero. In the photo, you see a tobiano. The horse has a stock-horse body type, muscular, strong, powerful, and an agreeable personality. You can register a horse with the Paint association if they have at least one Paint parent. The other parent can be registered as a Paint too, or can be registered with either the American Quarter Horse Association or Jockey Club.

The first note of a Paint in the U.S. historical record was in 1519 when Hernando Cortes brought some over on his conquistador travels. His publicist, Diaz del Castillo, noted them. By the 1800s, the Paint was extremely popular among western plains Indians, especially the Comanche. These indians favored bright, loud, flashy, spotted horses who were powerhouses! By the 1950s and 1960s, people were beginning to coordinate trying to register and preserve the breed. So, starting in the 1960s, some ladies began to coordinate information. By 1961, they held their first show. By 1962, they registered their first formal Paint horse. And by 1965, they had laid the ground work for the World Paint Show, as well as registered 1,300 members and 3,800 horses!

My beautiful Hailee is a registered breeding stock Paint horse. Her sire, Speckled E.T., is a Paint (produced by a Quarter horse sire and Paint dam) and her dam, Docs Blue Rock Dawn, is a Quarter horse.

You can read more about this fabulous breed at the following link:
http://www.apha.com/

Hailee's May 2007 cousin!

I was getting excited thinking about Hailee's foal coming. So, I did a little search to see if she had any baby relatives out in the world. I found this foal born May 26, 2007 in Illinois, He is a sorrel colt and registered Quarter Horse. He was selling for $1,000 and he has Docs Blue Rock Dawn in his heritage! She is Hailee's mom! What an adorable baby! He even has Hailee's little dripping white splash right across his nose! It sure makes me wonder about Hailee's heaven-sent baby!