New Horse Shiner

[cowboydoc]

Well I sold a bunch of cattle this last month as prices have gone really high on bred cows and first year heifers and am moving more of my operation to horses. To do this I went out and bought this stud horse who is an own son of Shining Spark out of a Colonel Freckles mare. He is a four year old this year and already has a huge trophy case from last year as a reiner. He was 6th at the futurity and has won his share of the shows. It was a pretty sound investment but this horse is that one in a million that you look for. I'm going to keep him going in his reining and then show him in roping and the Versatiliy Ranch classes. We'll start standing him at stud this year as well. I have been working on this deal for almost a month now and finally am going to pick him up tomorrow in Gainesville, TX. Pretty proud day for us. Just thought you horse people may want to share in it. Here's a couple pics from when I went down to do the vet check on him.

 

[cowboydoc]

rear view

 

[cowboydoc]

side view

 

[MikePA]

Gorgeous horse, doc! My wife is partial to buckskins (he is a buckskin, right?)

 

[Thomas]

Grand look horse you have there,and a lucky horse indeed to be going to nice home.

Okay..since I know nothing about horses,why do people braid the tails?

 

[MikePA]

Braiding tails is usually done for shows. People also braid the main for the same reason.

 

[GrantMO]

Nice looking horse! When you do the vet check do you have them do a semen analysis? We didn't have one done on our stallion because he was just under two. Turns out he was potent. How do Shiner's offspring look?

 

[cowboydoc]

Mike
He's a palomino. Similiar color but your buckskins will have dorsal stripe, black around their lower legs, and a black mane and tail.

 

[cowboydoc]

Thomas,
This horse's tail was braided because of all the checks that were being done for one. In addition that's the trainer of the horse that is in the pic and they always braid them before they ride so they stay looking nice for the shows as Mike said.

 

[cowboydoc]

Grant,
For what I had to pay for this horse we checked everything!!! LOL. He checked out fine for everything except that he had a left mildly degenerated lower hock joint. The horse has never been lame and wasn't lame with the flexion tests either. That joint will fuse in a year or two naturally so it's not a big concern. That's one of the other reasons I'm bringing him back here is so we can do a five week therapy on it with Adequan and then send him back to the trainer and get him ready for the derby in the spring.

This colt doesn't have any offspring yet. He has been in competition for the last 18 months straight. In reining the futurity is the biggie. Not many of these good horses are bred until they are four or five because they are training and showing so hard. It's the horses record then that determines how much they're worth as a breeder.

 

[MikePA]

doc, thanks for the info. As you can tell, I get the palomino and buckskin mixed up. Our first horse, the one we had to put down this past summer, was a palomino mare. Beautiful animals, beautiful color. About the only breed I'm not all that fond of is the appaloosa. I just can't get used to the tail /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. Fortunately, our leopard appaloosa has a 'regular' tail, so he's OK. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[cowboydoc]

Mark,
You may know this but just FYI. Any breed can have any color of horse. This horse for example is AQHA, but they also have palomino's in other breeds as well. Now you can double register horses as well. Like there is a palomino association, but it's not a breed. You can register the horse there and compete in their shows. The AQHA is a blood thing whereas the palomino association is merely for color. They don't keep track of the horses records and such but just color. It gets very confusing I know.

 

[BobinCols]

Cowboydoc-Do you make it to the Congress each October?

 

[alan40]

Boy Doc that's alot of good looking horse. Have fun and keep us updated!!! By the way being a none horse person I first thought maybe it was a horse wash!!!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Take care,

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

Alan,
<font color=blue>thought maybe it was a horse wash</font color=blue>/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I'm like you but, I thought Doc got kicked in the eye/w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif
Al

 

[HR_Mutt]

cowboydoc
Add me to the is it a wash or did he get kicked/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. Good looking horse, but your pic is about as close to I've been to one. Out of curiosity, what is the surface he's standing on? Something special for arena?
regards
Mutt

 

[cowboydoc]

Bobin,
I'm not a big show person, mostly rodeo. They did start a class this year though in Versatility Ranch. After I finish with this horse in reining I'm going to start him in that class and probably do some of the roping as well. I hope to make it there with him in a few years after his NRHA career is over. That's where the money is really at on these horses. If you can make a name for them there, and this horse already has one, you can do really well with them as a sire.

 

[cowboydoc]

Al,
Not sure what you mean by a horse wash? You mean the facility where the pics are taken? That is just a full panel roundpen. The surface was a very small pebble surface that actually worked really well for riding on. I'd never seen it before but it seemed to work fine for riding on. The place where the pics are taken is with the trainer that was working with the horse before I bougth him when he was at the university for the vet testing before I bought him.