Introducing Someday Dream

Belated introduction... Here is my new mare. She is in foal to Montserrat by frozen semen... only 1 cycle, inseminated 2 days after I bought her. Super timing. My understanding is that she had 4 foals all by TB stallions.

She has very pretty conformation, very sweet, and she offers incredible hock actions. Some knee actions, but not as free as I like in the elbows, but hopefully Monti can add some to the baby. I'd love to get another mare like her, and I'm still looking...

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Yippee! Mufasa awarded First Premium and declared a stallion and FEI prospect by GOV judges

Congratulations to Gateway Farm for breeding this spectacular colt by Montserrat out of their homebred Rotspon mare. He received premium and was the top scoring colt at his inspection. Check out their website for more details: http://www.gatewayfarm.com/details.cfm?horse=59

We are extra excited about this foal because he is the result from one dose of frozen semen imported from Germany before Monti came to California.

Here is the direct quote from Mufasa's breeder Liz Jenner:

"Mufasa is turning out to be quite the boy!! You will be very proud of Monty’s baby!! I believe Pam is putting together some pictures and video clips to send to you so you can see how nice Mufasa is turning out. They just raved about him at his inspection and thanked me for bringing such a nice colt for everyone to see!"

I can't wait to see his glamour shots and video from Pam, who's Gateway's business manager/photographer.

Ricoco - new colt by Rubino Bellissimo out of SPS Winala

SPS Winala (Wolkenstein II X Pinkus) has finally produced a colt by Rubino Bellissimo. She has two fillies by him. This young colt has shown a lot of presence even at only a few days old!

Royal Wonder - new colt by Wonderful

Sarah reported her new little "Wonderful" addition - Royal Wonder out of Caribeann Blue. Pictuerd at birth and one day old. Do you see his "sea horse" marking?

Updated baby pictures from San Diego Sporthorses

Thanks to Linda Hackney of San Diego Sporthorses for sharing some snapshots of her new Wonderful baby, full brother of 2006 Top Colt and Best Mover of the Day at his AHS inspection. Here is also a tiny snapshot of the two yearling fillies from last year: Rubino Bellissimo filly Royal Dancier (right) with the Donnerschlag X Ladylike filly Donnertienna (left). Linda also has a really cute colt by Regazzoni out of Ladylike, so a half brother to Donnertienna.

Here is a new baby Wonderful X Diachee (Diamont)

Meet the full brother to Wunderland, the USEF FEI 4-year-old qualifier and a big dressage show winner in Texas. He was born on 6/8 and less than 1 week old in the pictures. He sure has a beautiful face with big eyes! He is produced by embryo transfer as Diachee was not able to carry a foal any more.

Ronete Von FoxPaw went to a new home

Ronete's breeder Mary reported that this wonderful gelding by Rubino Bellissimo has been sold to a wonderful home and hopes he has many blue ribbons in the future. He has had a wonderful year in the Hunter Divisions bringing in home multiple Championships. Congratulations to Mary and wish the new owner continued success.

Congratulations to Nanni Baker of Texas for a new Wonderful colt

Nanni reported a new Wonderful X Diamont colt was born yesterday. This is from her embryo transfer effort last year, and the colt is a full brother to Wunderland, the qualifier and competitor of last year National FEI 4-year-old Championship. Nanni also reported that Wunderland has already qualified for the 5-year-old championship. He and his owner Erika have been so successful that riders now withdrew when they saw them in the class. That is a bit odd, but impressive ;-).

This new colt is reported to be nearly identical to his brother except for the stripe being a bit different. I can't wait to see his pictures. Stay tuned.

Wonderful colt out of Elite mare Barcelona by Batido

Yet another super foal from this big impressive elite mare owned by Linda Hackney of San Diego Sporthorses and owner of Elite Hanoverian stallion Batido. This is a full brother of the 2006 inspection site champion colt. Barbi also produced a incredibly elegant filly by Rubino Bellissimo last year. Here is the 2008 colt at 8 days old

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The way of the future

High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules. Read the short article: http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=11915

Anyone selling a donkey stud? :-)

Who's granddaughter is this?

Rubino Bellissimo's son Rubaron von Foxpaw sired this lovely filly. The dam is by Diamont, whose daughter Dividend started my warmblood breeding labor of love. What a charming (and sleepy) face. Congratulations to this lovely filly's breeder and Rubaron's owner Pamela Hammer.

That is expensive!

$5 a gallon gas is coming. This was actually taken by my son using my cell phone 2 weeks ago...

Why we are still just talking about buying cars that run more miles to the gallon? In this day and age, Telecommute! Have UPS and FedEx use electric trucks to deliver your new clothes, beef or even live chickens (a friend of mine bought chicks and ducklings from internet). Ride or drive your "pony" to your friendly neighborhood farmers for fresh vegetables and fruits.

Oh, wait. Ponies need hay. Let me stock up hay before everyone else start trading their car in for a pony. Let's see, I should buy more stock on the fertilizer companies since it's going to be in great demand to grow hay in addition to the corn. Hmm, the chemical fertizer can be a pollution source, so let's compost for our home made organic fertilizer from our "transportation". Isn't that wonderful? May the horse power be with you! We have a few outstanding models to sell you. ;-) Check them out!

Mufasa is here! See pictures at 3 days old.

Liz Jenner of Gateway Farm announced the arrival of Mufasa by Montserrat out of her Rotspon/Con Noir mare. He is such a darling colt, black with a dished face.

Rosso is backed!

Time flies... Rosso's owner Helen reported that Rosso is no longer a baby, and he was just recently backed and started by Anne Gribbons of Knoll Dressage, but is now home to grow up a bit more.

Here is Rosso's owner's report and some snapshots she took at Anne Gribbon's place: (Rosso looks as red as his sire with same nice topline. )

I have to say he seems to totally LOVE to be out there working and ridden – he likes that we take him out and do stuff w/ him. When Anne started him he wasn’t thrilled with the lungeline but really like having a rider on him so with him she said they switched it up and had the rider give more cues than the ground person. I would love to keep him w/ Anne forever but I need to budget this a bit so I will probably return him to her in later years. It was critical to me he got started the right way and that was evident when Lisa sat on him over the weekend after I got him back from Anne. He will be working with who I have Dulci w/ a German trainer w/ his Masters Ron Postleb and his daughter Lisa in upstate NY at Crown Dressage International. Lisa had backed over 50 horses in Germany and was so impressed w/ him and his maturity. Here are a few JPEG’s.

USET Olympic Selection Trial - A Salute to Hong Kong

Here is a neat invitation card design. I wonder what USET will actually do. My friend came back from Holland and told me that a large CDI competition held in the Netherlands was made like a Chinese Festival. She said however when a singer started singing a Chinese Song, everyone burst into laughter. She was shocked because this would never happen in California because there is such a big Asian population here, but even her Dutch boy friend said, "But it sounded funny." Didn't one of Austin Powers movies made fun of the Dutch? Jackie Chan's English is definitely funny, perfect for his action comedies. It's just good to have some fun and laughters at these international equestrian events, that can get tense at times! Since we have decided not to go to Hong Kong to watch the game, we are shopping for a big flat panel TV. Too many to choose from...

I will need to go to Beijing right after the Olympics, and then again to Taiwan in October. I am hoping to squeeze out some time to visit Germany, but I doubt I have enough vacation days.

Baby R's very own website

This is built by Mary's 13-year-old friend! http://babyr2008.piczo.com/
See more pictures and frequent updates.

Baby Rufus

Here is the music video of Baby Rufus by Rubino Bellissimo out of Camilla (Contucci), provided by owner Mary Farr.

New colt by Rubino out of Camilla owned by Mary Farr of Florida

Congratulations to Mary! Here is what Mary reported:

It's a Boy! Born 3/14/2008 at 10:00 PM. Camilla did the job all by herself. We came in just as she was stepping away from the after birth and the baby started getting up. Mother and son are doing well.

Rubi Tuesday is the Cover Girl for Hunter & Sport Horses Stallion Issue

Rubi Tuesday by Rubino Bellissimo out of Premium mare Laura Bella (Lauries Crusador) is the cover girl for the January Stallion Issue of Hunter & Sport Horses magazine. Watch out for this girl in the show ring this year. Her owner Dara Rip plans to campaign her in sporthorse breed shows. (Photo by Terri Miller)