Photos:
Above is Smart Alek with Skip The Paint (Redman) and that's Smart Black Dress (Belle) to the right... late summer 2009
Here are a couple scenes from October 2008 down in the winter pasture.
This is a sky photo of our place. The part to the right that looks like sand traps is the new pasture and the burn piles burned up, buried and just seeded with grass. It had just rained after another dry spell and greening up.
The 2007 foals running with 2 moms. what a face.
Reinman+ (Desperado V X Kala Kachina+). He's a 1998 gelding beginning in reining. The show pictures are from Sunflowerphoto 2005 in his first reining at Eastern Arabian Horse Show, August, 2005. Placed 2nd to his mom in the ATR class. He's also won in western pleasure showing at one or 2 amateur circuit shows. FLASH Reinman+ won the 2006 open East Coast Reining Championship! double FLASH He won both the Open and AOTR East Coast championships for 2007 and now again in 2008....See news page
I found this old picture (above) on my computer from Region 15, 1996. L-R LL Tsultry (Ivanhoe Tsultan X Cameo Tu), Kala Kachina+ (Basksand X GT Sarria), GT Tokay+ ( Baske-Tu X GT Maarsaala). That was a fun day. I think it was my first, maybe 2nd time at Regionals for reining.
This is GT Tokay+ (Baske-Tu X GT Maarsaala). He was the first "fully trained" horse I ever bought. He was the first one to win me a cooler, first Regional top 5 for me, first East Coast Champion, first stallion, first Legion of Honor winner. He was foaled in 1987. The above middle picture is with Lynn Stephenson before I owned him. The hunt seat picture is his first attempt at doing that. He won a hunter pleasure championship ATR the next year. We entered the "Challenge of the Breeds" at Harrisburg and placed 3rd out of 13 entries. We had to do western pleasure, english pleasure, hunter hack, barrel race, western riding, and timed obstacle course. The most fun I've ever had at a horse show. He hurt himself several years ago and is gelded and retired to pasture ornament and "king of the hill". passed away on Memorial Day, 2008 from colic... rest easy ole boy.
Mary and John Haldeman, 1157A N. Strickler Rd., Manheim, PA 17545
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