Emma's Foal
We have another one coming! Out of our Clyde cross mare - Emma and a palomino paint Saddlebred Stallion (Spot of Gold). We are expecting, in late July, a Georgian Grande baby! Emma is a big, kind, lovely moving mare with a lot of suspension in her gaits. The Stallion is kind and quiet. We have had other get out of him and they are absolutely lovely to handle and train. Plus, out of bay mares so far, he has only thrown buckskins or paints! Emma & her foal - $9800 before foaling.

 

Our Breeding Philosophy

Having been breeding horses for nearly 30 years, we have developed some pretty strong opinions as to what works and what does not. 

Everybody wants to breed beautiful, athletic, trainable babies, but it's not as easy as it seems. Time provides a perspective that sheds new light on old truisms. We have all bred to stallions because of their breathtaking movement, their competition record or the success of their offspring. This has sometimes worked and sometimes not. We now have different criteria for our breeding program that we think will produce an ultimate sporthorse.


Wills at three days

The number one thing we seek to produce is a trainable, tractable temperament - in other words, rideability. We also believe a majority of the genetic influence comes from the dam and so we are excruciating in our selection of broodmares as we feel they contribute heavily to a foal's temperament. We feel ever so strongly that a sport horse can go farther in almost any discipline with a moderate amount of talent and an extraordinary amount of rideability than with extraordinary talent but a difficult temperament. Of course, no one want to produce an average horse and the commercial market demands looks and movement (often over temperament). European warmbloods exhibit such extravagant movement that buyers sometimes seem unable to stop themselves from buying a horse they will never be able to train just because it looks fantastic. Our goal became to breed horses with the movement that would allow them to compete against the best, but with temperaments that would set them apart.