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Our horses Horses are herd animals. We learned from experience that horses prefer to share a paddock than to be separated in a stall. This made us decide to extend each stall with a paddock that gives room to 2 adult horses or a mare with foal. Each paddock has a sand area, a shelter with concrete floor and a stall with flax straw. The hayrack, water trog, feed bowl and mineral block are spread across the paddock in order to keep the horses moving around. Next to that our horses have access to the pasture for 4 to 6 hours a day. Manure is removed daily to avoid weed and worm infections. This is our way of keeping our horses as natural as possible and to strive for a pleasant partnership. The boys
Breedingprogram In our breeding program we want to preserve the original characteristics of the Walking Horse since this is the reason why the breed excists in the first place. Keywords: Strong, versatile, smart, people orientated, smooth, willingness to work. Our mares have been carefully selected and are all imported from the USA. We often travel to the US ourselves to search for horses. Our criteria is based on gaits, conformation, bloodlines and disposition. In order to create a diversity of bloodlines in Europe we import our mares in foal to an American Walking Horse stallion. We match each mare with a stallion based on the same selection + (very important) the combination with that specific mare. As with many breeds, the looks of the Walking Horse has changed over the years in order to fit the demand of the market. The sturdy look had to make room for more elegance and style. The modern American show horse often also has more power and exhibits more lateral movement. This doesn't help the 'newcomers' to the breed riding these gaited horses. 1 way to breed back to the original Walker-type is to breed with old pleasure bloodlines. These are not that easy to find nowadays and we do sometimes combine these rare, old lines with modern blood of which a calm and willing disposition together with natural gaits is a must. Above criteria combined with a good socialization and training has been a proven success formula for us in raising a social horse for the whole family; a Tennessee Walker with a gentle disposition, smooth gaits for hours of trail riding and plenty of expression and gait to compete at European shows. The girls
A beautiful Heritage mare with a striking color; bay sabino. We expect her in Europe in 2010. Her bloodlines trace back to pleasure horses like Paige's Echo and Mark's Cracker Jack. A great asset to our breeding program!
Not a Tennessee Walking Horse but certainly appreciated a lot; this 9 year old Peruvian Paso joined our herd in July 2009.
A half sister to our Beetle will join our herd in November 2009. This 4 year old Heritage mare is green broke and will be trained. In the future we will also use her for breeding. Lulu is a black sabino.
Bungee joined our herd in March 2010. She was looking for a job as a riding horse and we had a job vacant. This pretty Rocky Mountain Horse/Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse mare will please many people with her smooth gaits.
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Honor is born and raised in Canada. Her bloodlines are a mixture of Canadean Walkers on top with the well known Calvin Miller lines on the bottom tracing back till the 40ies. Honor moved to her new home in July 2009 in foal to Potter for a 2010 baby.
A Heritage outcross, arrived in 2008 in foal to the Heritage TWH Red Bud's Rambling Slim.
A daughter of our stallion Pleasure´s Pot o´ Gold. Lehla is born in 2007.
Still young and unexperienced but promising! Jenster arrived in October 2008 in foal by US Heritage stallion Society's Dan Allen.
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