Krispy Cream

 

 

Krispy Cream is a sorrel sabino. Her mane and tail are a pretty silver/gray color, rather unusual for a horse this color. Kris has proven  to be an excellent broodmare and produces size and color consistently. Her foals are very athletic and well gaited. Kris comes from  the Pulaski, TN area and is from a long line of good middle Tennessee usin' horses. She traces back to Little Midnight Man who stood  at the Ray Corum stables in Kentucky. I recently  contacted the family to find out more about this  stallion as he appears twice in  Kris's pedigree. I was told he was  a very mild mannered stallion and children were allowed to  sit  on him. Kris's lineage also goes  back to Night Rider who traces to Old Arthur, a non-Allen bloodline. She has a line back to Brantley's Roan Allen Jr. as  well as Red Eagle F-61. She also goes back to Rhoda Allen. Rhoda Allen is a horse that also  appears in the CrackerJack line of horses. The CrackerJack horses were popular in middle Tennessee for their stamina on  the trails. Kris has one line back to Last Chance through Rasch's White Boy. She also traces back to Bud Allen, who was the 1941 and 1942 Get of Sire in the Breeder's Division Championships. She goes back to Go Boy's Shadow who was the 1955 World  Grand Champion Three Year Old Stallion and in  1956 he was the World Grand Champion.

 

One bit of good news!!! I just found out Kris is in foal to Society's Duke Allen so spring 2011 will be an exciting time here!! I had given Kris a year off and it ended up being two years before I could get her back in foal again.

"Maudie"

 

 

This mare is Storm's Maude. She is an aunt to my Kris mare. Maude comes from Middle Tennessee. Maude's lineage includes  Merry Go Boy, Rhoda Allen, Mack K's Handshaker, Old Wilson's Ace,Townsend's Lady to name a few of  the old horses on her  papers. Maude has 10 numbers from the 30's and 40's on her registration papers. I'm looking  forward to having Maude in the brood  herd.  Maude is a sweet mare who is getting used to attention. I don't think she  had a lot of attention before and she was a bit apprehensive at first but now she will approach me in the pasture and ask for attention. This is just a sweet old girl.

Lucky as a three year old

Photos below were taken on July 3, 2010 by my friend, Bev Rinke   

 

Angel's Lucky Star - this young filly was given to my niece, Kris, who decided I needed to keep her after Lucky's dam died.  Lucky is  the spitting image of her mother in looks and personality. Her pedigree has old bloodline stock  such as Hunter's Allen, Merry Boy,  and Top Wilson. Her grandsire, Red Bud's Rascal, had ten foundation "F" horses  ON HIS PAPERS. Her  granddam, Lucy Sue's  Angel had five "F" horses on her papers. Lucky Star is very much like her dam in that she is shameless  about begging visitors for scratches under her jaw. Lucky is both TWHBEA and NWHA registered.

 

Photo on the left was taken Summer 2010 with her colt, Sparky. Photo on the right was taken in Summer

2008 with Scarlet's rider, Abby. Photo below left was sent to me by Robin Moore, Iowa when she owned Scarlet as a two year old.

 This gorgeous bay mare is Scarlet Star Wilson. She is the daughter of Echo's Star Gray Wilson and Red Bud Lady  Scarlet. I had an opportunity in the spring of 2008 to acquire this nice mare and decided she would be a wonderful addition to my farm.  I have admired this mare since she was a baby. I first saw her at Harry & Franne Brandon's farm near Petersburg, Tennessee. She was 24 hours old and came walking up to the fence and I was able to touch her nose. It was like she knew I was her Wisconsin "Grandma". Scarlet is a comical girl. She will come up and  stand with her head high and beg for jaw scratches, hugs, all kinds of attention.  She is definitely a people horse. Scarlet thinks everyone should love her because "I am Scarlet". Everyone who visits loves Scarlet. She is one of those "in your face" kind of horses who loves everyone. She is an excellent mother and I've enjoyed watching her raise Sparky, her first foal.

 

    Left:  Ostella's Della Rosebud on the left with her 2009 colt, NFF Society's Stonewall Allen. Right photo shows Oscar Aerdts  riding "Della" in the Duck River on one of the trips he and Sandra made to Tennessee

   

Della's dam was a product of the breeding program of the late Jake Reese, a breeder who appreciated the old  Bramlett F-9 bloodlines  for the traits that made them popular in the early twentieth century. Jake was one of the few breeders to preserve older-than-Allen F-1  bloodlines. Della was a proven trail mare before entering into Leon Oliver's  broodmare band. She was sired by the late Red Bud's  Rascal, her dam was Mayflower's Lady. I had admired Della  for many years when she was on  Leon's farm and finally in the summer  of 2008, he offered her for sale and I said YES.

These two yearlings came from my friend, Austin, in Montana. The red one is Carbonado's Fancy Chance (Rosella Chance x NFF Echo's Blue Moon). The white filly is Carbonado's Nancy Bee (Echo's Merridee x NFF Echo's Blue Moon). Fancy belongs to my friend Laura but she's staying here through the summer. These two fillies are a hoot to watch in the pasture. Maude's filly, Fiona, has buddied up with these yearling fillies and Maude  is so sweet and patient to let these two older girls hang out with her baby. It's an everyday occurance to see Maude with Fiona following her and behind them is Maude's "entourage" of Bee and Fancy following along. The photo below is one I snapped of Fancy "hugging" Fiona.

Echo's Lady Bug Allen

 

These photos were taken by Oscar Aerdts and Sandra van den Hof in 2009. "Miss Bug", also known as Love Bug, will  be traveling to Belgium in the spring of 2010 and will reside at Pleasure Gaits Walking Horse Farm.  Lady Bug is a daughter of Society's Dan Allen and Sun's Midnight Rena. She is a Heritage mare.

 

Sandra and Lady Bug having a girl to girl chat

Sandra finds Lady Bugs itchy spots. This filly absolutely

loves being scratched all over.

Lady Bug and Halo having fun in the pasture

The Three Amigos  from left: Lady Bug, Scarlet, Halo

These photos were by Geri Becker, Twin Oaks Portraits - Thanks Geri!!

This pretty girl is Wilson's MayFlower and she was born here at Northern Foundations Farm. Her dam is Krispy Cream,

sire is Echo's Star Gray Wilson. You all need to read her story. I sold this horse as a baby to a friend in Florida and

she had her for five years, trained her under sadle herself and did a lot of trail riding with her. Then she sold all her

 Walking Horses and started breeding Singlefooters. MayFlower was sold to a couple who then donated her,

for a sustantial tax write off, to a  Boy's Ranch in northern Florida. The man who donated her told me she had a

wonderful home there, lots of kids to love her and tend to her, a better place than she's ever had in her life.

 

The ugly truth is the Ranch does not keep the horses. They auction them off to the highest bidder and they

don't do background checks on the buyers to make sure the horses that are sold will have a suitable home. In

 MayFlower's case, she was bought at public auction by a meat horse buyer. This man was one of the major

suppliers of horse meat to Dallas Crown, a company that sells the meat to zoos for food for the zoo animals.

 

In my opinion, they are  flesh peddlers. They get the horses for free, turn around and auction them off with no 

regard as to where the horse ends up or what its fate is. Beware if you are donating animals to charities! They

might not have the kind of life that you think they will have!

 

It took several weeks of looking, coordinating everything to get her back home to Wisconsin. The whole story is

nothing less than a series of miracles that took place to make this happen and there are many people to

thank:  Val and Rob - You guys are the best! I can never thank you enough for getting Flower to your farm and

 Rob for hauling her to Wisconsin, Sandy - your efforts helped save this mare. Without your help we never would

 have found where she was, Janet - the information you got about the ranch not doing a background check is

important for people to know, Deb - your suggestion to google the buyer's name is what led me to find out

he's a kill buyer, Sharon, Viv, and Judy - your moral support through this whole ordeal means a lot to me.

If I forgot anyone, THANK YOU for all you have done!

 

MayFlower now resides at Tsuniah Walkers, British Columbia, Canada with Roberta Brebner. She is in training

to learn neck reining and hopefully will start her new career as a riding horse at the Tsuniah Lake Lodge as a trail horse for

the Lodge's guests.