 | ALLEN'S MIDNIGHT RASCAL
Reg # 986450 TWHBEA
Homozygous Black
Rascal is just a fantastic horse, and is a credit to his breed. I purchased him as a four month old colt as a stallion prospect. I would not have had him this long as a stallion if he wasn't. With over 30 foals on the ground, his track record for gaited, trainable foals is undisputed.
I consider him my once in a life time horse. I've done everything but show him. I was green to TWH when I got him and had never shown, never mind a stallion, so I never entered the show ring with him to my regret. However, we have done numerous other riding acitvities. Just some of our adventures for 2008 include a clinic, moving cows, a parade, trail riding, and going to the arena just for some fun (with a stock trailer load of mares). You can read more about that on my blog.
His amazing temperment lets me get on him after long rests (weeks, months and sometimes years), and ride him with a strange groups of horses.
His fabulous gait is being passed on 100% of the time, no matter how the mare gaits. I've bred him to pacy mares, trotty mares and mares that you just aren't sure what gait they are doing, and every single foal has gaited, a true four-beat walking horse gait. His offspring have gone on to show at the Canadian Futurities, always placing in the ribbons. I've shown two three year old fillies by him, again competing very well (especially as I didn't know what I was doing), his daughter Mira getting High-point Two Gait at one show when she was three. His other foals have become super family horses, with nothing but praise from their owners. All of them walk the walk.
Rascal also does a fantastic canter, a true slow three beat canter. I did not have to train it into him, it is bred into him.
I do breed outside mares, each mare is in her own pen and is hand bred. Rascal is a gentle stud and has never bit or kicked a mare.
Stud fee: $600
Mare Care: $7 day/dry $9 day/wet
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| THE JOY OF MONEY
Reg # 901490/CH
Liver Chestnut
Sire: Coin's Hard Cash
Dam: Whatta Joy by Bum (Delight Bumin Around)
Money is a 15.2 liver chestnut stallion that I bought a few years ago as a cross for my Rascal Daughters. I had bred to him a couple of years ago and really liked the colt that I had got from him and Glory, so when the oportunity came up to buy him, I was happy to bring him home.
Money had a difficult begining, being shown on padds ( quite successfully) until he was four and then, to my understanding, living in a stall for the next 10 years.
He seems to have aclimatized very well to living in Alberta, first at Laurindale Stables where he had the best of care with a large pen and a friendly mare for companionship, then here. He lived in one of my pens for the first summer with a mare for company. I would take him for walks across the road, and for some grazing time. I really enjoyed spending time with him, his easy going nature, friendly atittude and very easy for me to handle.
I hand bred all his mares, with no difficulty in me handling him on my own, even if he was a little noisy.
The first winter I had him, he was living with old Tinkerbelle, as I found I had to feed them both extra calories to keep their weight on. When the first few goats snuck into his pen, I was concerned as many horses can be food agressive and arn't to pleased to be sharing, never mind with punny goats. Money was a true gentleman, sharing what ever he happened to be munching on. Then I had to put three little heifer calves in with him and Tinker, as I just didn't have another place for them. They wintered real well all together, even huddling in the shelter together during the worst of the weather.
This past summer I let him in a summerfallow field with Blondie. Boy, could he stretch his legs there. He had 80 acres to run in and he made the most of every acre. It was a wonderful sight to see him stretched out, running as hard as he could, especially as I knew he didn't get that chance to do that when he was younger.
Money has put on a wonderful gait on the three offspring I have from him, including one under saddle. He is also passing on his wonderful temperment, a legecy from his sire, Coin's Hard Cash.
We have two fillies from him in 2008, and have bred him to two more of mares for 2009. I plan on breeding him to two of my Rascal daughters for 2010 foals.
I am not offering him to outside mares at this time due to his age.
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