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HAWKS
BLUE SUE
“Blue”
Level: Beginner-intermediate-advanced Rider
Description: Blue, a beautifully muscled mahogany Bay, is the mother of
Susie, Emma, Bengal, Little Miss, and Eclipse. She has been in western movies
and with Larry on the History Channel. She is an excellent mother to her
foals. She used to be Larry’s personal saddle horse and helped win
many a team penning and steer roping. She has been our “go to”
cow horse for 19 years. At almost every rodeo, someone would try to buy
her as a foundation mare. Now she spends most of her life with foal or mothering
a foal. she is still one of Larry’s favorite horses on the Ranch,
and also one of the sweetest. People of various ages can ride her
because of her very good manners.
BLUES
SIXOTE SUE
“Susie”
Level: Beginner-intermediate Rider
Description: An eight-year-old Sorrel mare, Susie is Blue’s first
foal, sired by Sixote, son of the famous Doc Quixote of Buffalo, Wyoming.
She is one of the horses of the Ranch that gets the most riding and attention
because she is the school horse for lessons and such. She is also one of
the friendliest horses on the Ranch because she has been around humans since
the minute she was born. You could probably say that she favors humans over
horses, and she loves to be groomed, fed treats, and showered off with a
hose. Susie was imprint-trained, which means pam and Larry were in the stall
when she was born; and they, with her mother, were Susie’s first sounds,
smells, tastes and touches. Susie and all our horses are trained with this
in mind. When this is reinforced in training, it makes our horses friendlier
and more comfortable, calm and compliant with humans, as well as easier
to shoe and medically treat.
BLUES
BENGAL WONDER
“Bengal”
Level: Beginner Rider
Description: Bengal is Blue’s third foal and notably a tiger-striped
Grullo Dun, sired by Big country wonder. He is Pam’s personal saddle
horse, and is so very gentle that children as young as two are given rides
on him. He is probably the friendliest of the horses on the Ranch because
he is the one of the horses that when you go into the pasture to bring in
the horses, he will be following you around begging for attention and a
treat.
VERSARYS
ACE
“Verse”
Level: Beginner-Intermediate Rider
Description: Verse is an eleven-year-old Sorrel Gelding and the biggest
and most muscular horse on the Ranch. HE is one of the horses that Larry
rides and was a rodeo team roping horse (header). He can be timid at first,
but when he gets to know you, and you gain his trust, he is comfortable
and calm. He is also can be worried at times, and doesn’t like to
be caught. Verse would rather stand than walk, rather walk than trot.
BLUES
EMERALD WONDER
“Emma”
Level: Beginner- intermediate Rider
Description: Emma, also Sired by Big Country Wonder, is Susie’s younger
sister, and Blue’s second foal. She looks just like her mother, a
well-muscled mahogany bay. She is also one of Larry’s personal horses
that he rides, mostly in parades and trail rides. She also was born on the
Ranch and imprint-trained. She loves attention, treats, and being groomed.
TORNADO
“Tony”
Level: Beginner- intermediate Rider
Description: Tornado aka Tony is a young, very friendly horse that will
nudge you for attention, and is one of the horses in the pasture that will
let you walk right up to him to give him attention or a treat. He used to
be a Pony Club Hunter-Jumper, but when he grew taller, he became a small
horse, so he can no longer be a Hunter-Jumper. He still absolutely loves
to jump and go on trail rides.
ZEVIS
ALMITEY
“Diamante”
Level: Experienced Rider
Description: Diamante/Diamond, a 6-year-old dark Bay Gelding, used to be
an AQHA racehorse (speed index 89) when he was a two and three-year-old
representing the Ranch. Now he is a working Ranch horse. Of the horses that
Larry rides, He is the fastest horse on the Ranch. Some times he will still
think it is race time and will want to bolt into a full gallop. Thus, the
people that have ridden him have had at least 10 years experience or have
been riding horses for most of their lives.
MOCHA
Level: Experienced rider
Description: Mocha, a tall three-year-old Paint-Quarter Horse mix Dun Gelding,
is smart beyond his years. Menny, our Ranch foreman and horse trainer, has
taught him to lie down, accept a rider and stand up with the rider on his
back. This is a crucial and rare horse skill, Critical to a rider who is
so injured that s/he cannot mount, who is alone and a long way from Ranch
headquarters. Mocha would be extraordinarily valuable on our sister ranches
in Wyoming, the One Diamond Bar and the Willow Creek Ranch at the hole in
the wall where the hands are spread over 57,0000 acres by themselves.
SUES
QUIXOTE
“Quixote”
Level: Intermediate- experienced Rider
Description: He is Susie’s one and only foal, a three-year-old Dun
Gelding, and the grandson of Blue. He is the horse that likes hangING out
with Bengal, who is his Uncle, but approximately the same age. They both
bug you out in the pasture for attention or a treat. They both were imprint-trained
on the ranch.
BUTCH
Level: very experienced rider
Butch is purely a cowboy’s horse. He is a six-year-old sorrel gelding
that can be a challenge to anyone, anytime. He would be in the “rough
string” on an Old West ranch. In other words, a very good horse hand
would have had him in his string of cow ponies, and that hand would be paid
extra money because he could ride that type of horse.
BLUE
IDES OF MARCH
“Little Miss”
Level: In-training
Description: Little Miss is Blue’s fourth foal, a Bay filly who will
be taller than her mother. She is still not through with her training so
it will be a little while until she will be a horse that guests of the Ranch
will be able to ride. She is a little bit on the shy side, but when she
gets to know you and you gain her trust, she will warm right up to you.
DANDY
BLUE ECLIPSE
“Eclipse”
Level: In-training
Description: Eclipse is Blue’s FIFTH and youngest foal, a filly sired
by SW Docs Dandy Dan, who was born February 20, 2008. She is very independent
and can often be seen way across the pasture from her mother, playing with
her colt friend, Badger. She is a Palomino, and almost snow white.
STAR
“Estrella”
Level: In training
Description: Star is the two-year-old half-sister to Eclipse, and they could
be twins. Both are almost pure white Palominos, Sired by SW Docs Dandy Dan.
She is already well over 15 hands tall. Star and Eclipse will make a gorgeous
team to pull the Ranch chuck wagon.
DOC
I DUN IT
“Dunnie” or ”La Baya”
Level: Experienced Rider
Description: She is the mother of Wonder If Doc Did It and Doc Badger Dun
It. She also is a very good mother to her foals. She is normally shy and
aloof, but if you gain her trust, she can be a sweetie.
Dunnie’s
Foal:
"Doc"
Level: In-training
Description: “Doc” is a yearling Sorrel Gelding and has just
begun his training. Badger, Dunnie’s younger Dun colt, was just born
February 11, 2008. He is a very sweet foal, who nuzzles you for attention.
He loves to be around his mother most of the time, but when he is not spending
time with Her, he is playing with his filly friend Eclipse, who was born
nine days later.
Badger
2008 Foal
Charlie
