Two
questions seem to be on people's minds as to what's new at Fox
Hollow. 1. Who is this Tristan fellow you announced earlier in
the year and what do you have planned for him? 2. What
happened to that horse Logan that was listed for sale? (Everyone says they hope he found a good home and wished they could have
taken him.) Well, keep reading for the answers! (11/2006)
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Tristan's registered
name is Regalia Prince Arthur. He is a purebred Irish Draught
outcross colt sired by Cork Arthur and out of Mountain
Heroine. You can see his complete pedigree at Delmar.
Now a long yearling, he is developing well and showing a great
personality and wonderful temperament. In fact, he is quite a
character! And he is as he appears, a dun, and showing no signs yet that
he will turn gray.
Again our thanks to Joan and Alan Miller of Regalia Irish Draughts in
Cornwall UK for entrusting this unique representative of the breed to
us. For now we plan to just let him grow up and learn all the
various things horses need to know. We may test breed him to a
couple mares this year, but won't decide that for a few months.
Hopefully he will be ready for an advisory inspection at the annual show
next fall near Chicago.
As to Logan, well, Tristan was lonely and who better to keep him company
(and teach him horsey manners) than 17.2 hand Logan!
Logan arrived at Fox Hollow in October, a little stiff from the long
ride from Washington, but sound and happy to be here. To say
Logan has charisma is a drastic understatement. This fellow is
Mr. Personality. We don't know how we got along before he arrived!
Logan and Tristan quickly became friends, and Logan is taking his
mentoring job very seriously. In the spring we are planning to
put him into training to very slowly bring him back from his injury.
Hopefully he will be able to resume a performance career, but if not, we
sure do enjoy having him just hanging around the barn.
Soon he will be registered as an ID Sport Horse named LoganBurgh
after his breeder Colleen Burgh. Thank you Colleen!
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Free and Clear has had a busy and successful fall schedule.
He is competing at Preliminary Level with International Rider and 2006
USEA Leading Rider, Phillip Dutton.
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Seneca Valley Pony Club H.T |
2nd place |
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Plantation H.T. |
1st place |
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Waredaca H.T & TR-3 Day Event Test |
4th place |
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Virginia Three-day Event & H.T |
1st place with dressage score of 24! |
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News from Florida:
Cathy says of her Fair Hope Pearl "she is a fun horse
and so versatile ". And we'll add BUSY! Sept 9 they went
on a 5 hour trail ride with 20 other horses, Sept 16 took a 1st and a 2nd
at Fanning Hill their first time showing at Level 1 dressage, and Sept 23
schooled the cross country at Ocala - and jumped everything!
While at Ocala they met up with another pearl - Lark who was also
schooling cross country.
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Thank you to Laura from
Wisconsin who sent this update on Padi's Celtic Celebration (aka
Early) who was our very first pearl born 1/16/1999 to Magrathea.
Early has now been my ever patient, ever loving pal through two
pregnancies - and now is back to work yet again. He is currently
keeping his dressage skills tuned and teaching my 3 year old daughter
and our 8 year old friend to ride. He is ever patient, ever kind,
and ever quiet. With his big belly - he and the girls look like a
perfect duplicate of the Norman Rockwell pony pictures! Poor Maria (the
8 year old) fell off of him - or rather simply bounced off of him
at the canter a couple of weeks ago And poor Early just
immediately stopped, turned around and wandered over to Maria, and
waited for her to get back on. That's Early. He's the
barn clown and the horse that everyone stops to feed and pet (he likes
to keep his weight up :) ). Right now he is currently the ONLY horse who
found the exquisite grass surrounded by burrs - making for long hours as
I comb the burrs out every night. He lives in a beautiful barn
with a huge indoor, and outdoor arena and miles of trails. Every
day he goes out with his pals on 10 acres of grass and every night he
comes in for some good hay and a rest (he is "in bed" by 8 pm
every night - laying down, literally - after which he will politely
refuse to get up, you can walk in and sit on his back, feed him carrots,
etc. - not much will get him up after bedtime.
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Earlier this year our
long time friend Shannon moved to Texas to follow her career.
After settling in and learning her way around the horse world there she
recently moved her horses.
Pictured here upon their arrival in Texas, (aka Glory) on the left and Stellar Quality (aka
Duncan) on the right, look to have weathered the trip well. Duncan
was bred by Fox Hollow Sport Horses and is a full brother to our
Thoroughbred mare Incredustar. Shannon
liked him so well she bought his dam Lucy F from us in foal to Mountain
Pearl - and the next spring Glory appeared on the scene.
Good luck to you all in Texas. We miss you, but are glad you're all
together again.
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Inspections have begun with the Central
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Padi's Shuttlewood
Danny Boy RID
2 year old out of Diamond Shuttle RID
owned by Christina Moutray (and family)
bred by Fox Hollow Sport Horses
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Dandelion Jazz Man
RID
4 year old out of Heathercombe Silver Satin RID
owned by Pat & Alan Jensen
bred by Dandelion Farm |
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Padi's Celtic
Courage RIDSH
2 year old out of Magrathea
owned by Christina Moutray (and family)
bred by Fox Hollow Sport Horses |
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There is sad news from
Ireland. The grand old mare Loahean has passed away. A wonderful
traditional mare Loahean carried some very rare and precious
bloodlines. She was one of the last, if not the last, mare by the
great sire Lahinch (by Laughton's Last by Laughton). Fortunately for
the ID world, she generously passed these along to numerous foals,
including our own Loguestown Classic.
Green pastures to you, and thank you ol' girl. |
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2006 Foal Photos
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Congratulations to co-owners Shirley Kahlert and Connie
Arthur. on the purchase of Mountain Pearl's fine RID son Bridon
Beale Street. Word is that
"Franklin" is settling in well at Lone Tree Farm in Waterford,
California Plans are for him to stand stud and expand his performance
career from dressage into eventing. Best of luck to you all!
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Mirassou
Pearl competed in her first real dressage show
(and second show ever) in late June and she took the first place blue in
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Pearls
tend to love posing for photos - that is if you can get their noses off
the lens to take the picture! Many of our Pearl owners send us
photos from time to time. Click here
to see a few we haven't shared with you before.
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Congratulations
to Tammy on the purchase of the ID Sport Horse Blue Mountain Briar.
Bred and raised by Carla Whitebread of Illinois the 3-year-old pearl
gelding will be going into training for an eventing career right here in
the midwest. Carla still has Briar's full sister Blue Mountain
Meadow as her hunting partner. (7/2006)
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THE GREAT 2006 COLOR RIDDLE
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Fox Hollow tackled an interesting color riddle this year, and not
the usual gray or not gray question. How can you tell a
chestnut from a bay? Usually it's a no brainer,
a bay has a black mane, tail and points and a chestnut has red mane,
tail and points. This year Maggie's colt Aidan made life a little more
difficult. One day he looked like he had black points
and the next they would look brown. His foal
coat covered up his legs making it impossible to tell whether his legs
were black or not. We elicited help from any and all
visitors to the farm. We dragged them over to see the foal and ask, Do
you think he's bay or chestnut?" The answers
were almost an equal number for bay and for chestnut (we even got the
reply "I won't even venture a guess!"). The
colt's new owner Theresa was very also very curious, so we decided to
settle the debate once and for all. We submitted the colt's hair for
color testing. The results are back and his DNA says that he is a bay!
(If I had placed a bet I would have lost because I swore he was a
chestnut). In honor of the enigma that Aidan
presented us, he has been renamed Padi's Celtic Riddle.
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Hope Pearl and her owner Cathy have been busy in Florida!
Here's a recent e-mail we received: "Hi I
just recently showed Pearl at the rated Hot Summer Nights Dressage show in
Tampa. It was the largest show they have had yet. There were over 160
horses entered not rides but horses. I started showing at this show ten
years ago at the very first one. When I got to the show I found that I was
in all the professional classes. I had not sent in my fees for USEF so I
couldn't prove that I was an amateur. The classes were large and I had
some of the top horses in the country in my classes. One the horses is
running third for USDF training level horse of the year. Well in four
classes Pearl started with a 61.7 % and by the end of the show she
received a 66.9% placing third in two classes. If I could have been in the
amateur classes I am sure she would have been first or second. Never once
did I get a comment she needs more impulsion. Pearl received 7's on gaits
on movement. The best thing of all she did all this with no shoes on and
with a great work attitude."
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Congratulations
to Theresa in Wisconsin on the purchase of Magrathea's wonderful 8th
Pearl - Aidan (Padi's Celtic Riddle) Theresa and two of her friends
visited on June 24. By the end of the grand tour to visit all the
Fox Hollow horses (3 at home, 4 in summer pasture, 3 at breeding
locations, Jasper, and of course Mountain Pearl) Theresa knew she wanted a
Pearl, but which one???? Barely a week later she called with her
decision - it had to be Aidan, and now she can hardly wait until
weaning! You can visit any time Theresa! |
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A bit of personal news
- our nephew Jamie and his wife Katie, along with their son Beau and
daughter Paige, welcomed a beautiful new baby girl to their family last
week. Welcome Ava Loraine!
(hmmmm, will she be a horse lover like her sister pictured at left meeting
Shuttlewood Rose?)
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Fox
Hollow has been busy caring for foals and mares since April. Click
here to see "Daddy's Summer Brag Book"
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NEW
ARRIVAL! Dandelion Jazz Man joined
our ever growing and changing herd in April. Better known as Jasper,
he is a four year old purebred ID gelding by Mountain Pearl out of
Heathercombe Silver Satin. Shown at left working hard with Sarah
Hauschild, he is showing all the signs of being a quick learner who
has a huge curiosity in poles on the ground. Being only 4 it may be
difficult to convince him to wait a year for any serious jumping.
Jasper joined his 1/2 brother Rooney (Padi's Copper Flash RIDSH) at
Otter Creek Stable where Sarah is working with both of them.
They are great pasture buddies, although a small Arab rules their tiny
herd. Jasper doesn't care - he's too busy eating; as you can
probably tell by his rather ample girth. It's going to take a lot to
work all that off!
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arrived - happy and healthy - and now all
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April 6, Shuttlewood Rose RID
delivered her first foal - a fine looking bay-will-gray colt sired by Mountain Pearl!
Grania, the Champion Purebred at the IDHSNA 2005 Central Show, is by
Silver Granite and out of Diamond Shuttle who was out of a Shuttlecock
mare. This colt is a carries some wonderful and rare outcross lines
mixed with a little KOD - a grand combination!
Now named! Padi's Granite Summit aka
Liam
Next, early in the morning of May 4, Magrathea
foaled her eighth Mountain Pearl foal, another colt, but this time a chestnut
bay (see story above) As yet unnamed, he is very large with long hind
legs. This fellow is destined to be an athlete.
Now named! Padi's Copper
Streak Padi's Celtic Riddle aka Aidan
Congratulations to Theresa on the purchase of
this fine colt.
Not wanting to be left behind, Loguestown
Classic RID did not wait until her due date of May 19. Sunday
afternoon May 7 she snuck off into the brush in the pasture and
produced a wonderfully compact chestnut filly sired by Mountain Pearl. As
always. we'll have to wait and see if she stays that color or turns gray,
but either way we are delighted with her and hope to come up with a name
soon. Alanna is by Annaghdown Star out of one of the last
Lahinch mares.
Now named! Padi's Classic Elegance aka
Ellie
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One of the old friends
we were reacquainted with in Madison was the breeder of this filly - who
brought pictures to share. Named Pearlinger,
her sire is Mountain Pearl, and her dam a wonderful Hafflinger named
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NEW
ARRIVAL! The
Fox Hollow clan would like to express our gratitude to Alan and Joan
Miller of Regalia Irish Draughts for the opportunity to purchase one of
their fine colts. We are
hoping that Tristan will eventually earn his RID status and join the
ranks of those stallions of the rarer lines helping to conserve the
uniqueness of the Irish Draught type.
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Thank you to all the Mountain Pearl fans new and old who stopped to visit
us at the Midwest Horse Fair in Madison, Wisconsin. We had a great
time talking with you all!. More photos
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Here are some photos
people have sent recently of their pearls in action and inaction
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Maureen sent us this
update on 5 year old Padi's Celtic Promise:
I had
hesitated to take him to a clinic I try and go to every year since he
has not been exposed much to new places, and I thought he needed more
mileage before I took him to such a place. But my trainer kept
insisting I take him. Well I hemmed and hawed but eventually got
browbeat into going.
It was a three day
clinic. I was a little nervous the first day as we've had so much
rain in GA this past month I had very little ride time on Owen, so I was
worried about foolishness, and him seeing all the new sites. The
first day went great - I told the clinician about Owen's
history, so she knew he was young. She for sure got my head in the
right direction and from there I was set. Owen did great the next
2 days, and before the last lesson I rode out on to the open fields of
this farm with my trainer and we cantered about. He was a gem!
Owen has the most
wonderful canter I have ever ridden. He makes me look good at a
canter. When the clinician saw him canter for the first
time, she said "Oh my, what a lovely canter!" He is the
cadillac of canters as far as I'm concerned. The clinician was
quite impressed as well. She said I'd won the horse lotto with
this guy. Hhe was a real trooper and never did anything stupid the whole
weekend!
So I just wanted
to brag on him, and tell you what a nice boy he is shaping up to be.
Keep producing more like him!
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Cathy in Florida recently updated us
on Fair Hope Pearl's endeavors:
"The last two dressage shows she has received scores as high as
69.65. She has been in four classes and received three 2nds
and one 3rd. Many people ask about her and say she is cute as a
button. She always receives 7's and 8's on her gaits and
movement. I haven't had her shown cross country this year, but would
like to start again soon." |
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Free and Clear
USEA Young Event Horse Champion 2005
Ridden by Phillip Dutton
Owned by Colleen Hofstetter
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and Clear wins again at Southern Pines Horse
Trials! Colleen sent the following summary: "It was
a good weekend and Flynn looked great! His stadium was really good and he
looked very much at ease on XC. he did take a peek at the 2nd water - it
was a steeple chase jump at the top of a hill, down the hill on a curve
and then over a log into the water so he sort of put on the brakes for a
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and Clear has started off his 2006 season with 2nd place at
Sporting Days in Aiken Horse Trial and a win at the Full Gallop Farm
Horse Trials where he finished on his dressage score of 28.50.
He is competing in Open Training with his rider/trainer Phillip
Dutton. Go Flynn! His next outings will be at Southern Pines
in March.
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A couple recent
e-mails for happy Pearl owners:
A Texas owner wrote to say "her 18 month old definitely thinks
"he's part human!" Her "Pearl" is particularly
fond of her husband. He'll go out in the field and the yearling
follows him everywhere. He will start "cantering" around
the field with the colt behind him even over small fences. He loves
to jump."
And a Wisconsin owner is very pleased with her 6 month old filly.
"She is turned out in the front yard (which is about an acre).
The children also play out in the yard -- they play soccer, fly kites, do
all sorts of kid stuff. The only thing the filly objects to so far
is when the kids use her legs as goal posts! I guess even "Pearls"have
limits!"
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The report from
Missouri is that Padi's Celtic Power, aka Paddy, is very happy with his
career change from dressage to hunting. and "he absolutely loves
jumping and being at the front of the field".
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Congratulations
Sarah!
Sarah Hauschild, who has been riding Mountain Pearl for
us since 2003, recently received her re-certification as a Level II
Certified Instructor with the American
Riding Instructor Certification Program (ARICP).
Sarah is certified to teach dressage and combined training, and
is in fact the only certified combined training instructor in the state
of
Iowa.
Sarah, is taking on a few new clients now and has secured training
space at the Midwest Stallion Station for the summer period. Click
here to learn more about Sarah and how to contact her.
Sarah is shown here with one of her 4-legged eventing students, Padi's
Copper Flash, owned by Carol and Alicia Strank.
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NEW
ARRIVAL! Fox Hollow Sport Horses is proud
to announce the acquisition of the purebred Irish Draught mare Abbeyleix
Imagination. "Abbey" arrived from North Carolina
January 2 and is adjusting well. She is by Moorpark Image
RID and out of the champion mare Pearls
for Diana RID by Mountain Pearl. |
