Krispy Cream, aka, Kris  #943968

 

 

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.

Storm's Maude #917034

 

 

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.

NFF Angel's Lucky Star  #20202541

Lucky as a three year old with my friend Nancy Bergman on the left.

Lucky as a two year old shown by Dale Miemietz at the 2004 Trempealeau County Fair in the Halter class.

Below: my niece, Kris, Dale, and Lucky show off the ribbon they won in the Halter class.

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. This mare has produced some very nice foals with a lot of

personality and nicely gaited. Lucky is one of my "home grown" babies.

 

Scarlet Star Wilson # 20406770

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 of 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 her foals. She's a big mare, almost 16 hands, but a gentle giant. The vet loves working on her. She's a very easy mare to do vet work on. 

 

Ostella's Della Rosebud, aka, Della  #945331

    Left:  Della 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 Leon Oliver. Her dam came from 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. Leon told me when he was   trail riding this mare, he always felt safe on her. She will take care of her rider.

Carbonado's Nancy Bee, aka, "Bee" #20901645

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 stayed here through the 2010 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. Bee will eventually join the broodmares when she's older. The pic of Bee on the right is with Maude and Tempest. Bee has hung out with Maude since she got here and really loves the little foals. I tell people Maude has her own "entourage".  Bee was born in 2009. In another year she'll start saddle training and eventually be bred.

Williams Annabelle  #953664

 

The above photos were taken in South Dakota. I love the one on the left and if you look close you  will see Anna is sticking her tongue out.  Cracks me up. The one on the right was when Anna was a young mare and had her first foal, Red Rock Rudy Q at her side, only a couple days old. This mare was not broke to ride and yet the boys are having the time of their lives with her. She is so patient and never worried. Just a real sweetheart of a horse. Anna loves kids and she's the first one in the barn when my grandkids visit the farm. They marvel at how tall she is but she puts her big head down so they can pet her.

 

 Anna is my gentle giant. She is an honest 16 hands, big mare, big boned and strong. She was sired by Williams King and I      had the opportunity to meet him before he died. Anna reminds me a lot of him in her temperament and stature. She's an excellent mother and the dam of my Society King stallion. Anna is bred to Society's Duke Allen for 2012 and I can't wait to see that foal! It should be a big horse that can walk a hole in the ground. Anna is a lovable mare and always the first to come up to the gate in the back of the barn. She likes to rest her head on my shoulder while I'm filling water tanks. She doesn't have a mean bone in her. Anna is very patient with foals but isn't above punishing them if they're naughty. One story I can tell is when I first got her she was open and the only mare in the pasture who did not have a foal that year. She buddied up with Lady, a mare now owned by my friend, Nancy Bergman. Lady was a first time mom and had a colt I named Oscar, that came in utero when I purchased her. Oscar was a bit of a handful for Lady and Anna stepped in and helped Lady raise Oscar. When he was naughty it was Anna who got after him and let him know his behavior was not acceptable. They were quite the trio in my pasture and it was interesting to watch a mare who had raised foals before help a brand new mom out.

 

 

                          

Above left photo is Anna as a 3 year old, right pic shows her soft eye and sweet personality. Below left is Anna on pasture at Red Rock Farm in South Dakota.  Below right photo shows her with her 2000 foal, Red Rock Eclair with Kris's boys and a visiting friend. Thank you, Kris Quaintaince for sharing these photos of Anna!!    

Williams King, Anna's Sire

                           NFF Wilson's Chantilly Lace  #20406772

 Tilly is another one of my home grown girls. She's being ridden by Denise, a friend of mine, in the photos above. Tilly was born in 2004, a daughter of Echo's Star Gray Wilson and Sterling's Dolly. Star Gray has his own page on my site and you can read about him. Dolly was a daughter of Buds Sterling Bullet, a mare who could go all day long. Sounds like Tilly inherited that from her dam, she can go all day on the trails and never tire out. Denise says Tilly love to give hugs to people as you can see in the small inset photo on the upper right picture. Tilly is an experienced trail horse and has seen many trail miles in Western Wisconsin. She is bred to Society's Duke Allen for 2012 and I'm anxiously waiting to see how that foal turns out!! Tilly is a smaller mare, maybe 14.2 hands but she's quite stocky built and very sturdy. She is the foal who most resembles her sire in build.

 

 

 

NFF My Echo's Foxxy Lady  #20302102

 Foxxy is one of my home grown babies. She was originally sold to my friend, Rachel Hill, in Ontario, Canada but I had the opportunity to get Foxxy back last year when Rachel offered to swap her for Lucky's colt, Traveler. Rachel is an endurance rider and Foxxy doesn't do endurance. She is the guest horse Rachel would offer to visitors to ride or to go along riding with her as she conditioned her endurance horse, Beamer. Photo on the left is Hailey tuning up Foxxy this summer. Photo on the right is Rachel when Foxxy was still in Canada. Foxxy is the daughter of Echo's Star Gray Wilson x Rascal's Favorite Lady. Current plans are to not breed her at this time, keep her for an extra riding horse for family and guests. Foxxy is a friendly mare who enjoys leisurely trail rides. When she was a foal, she was absolutely fearless. She'd come in the barn with her dam and  stand in front of the big barn fan as it was blowing or go find the water buckets, neatly stacked up to dry out and tip them all over. As they were bouncing on the floor, she'd stand and watch like "oh, that was fun!" I recall one time when I was headed into the pasture to clip weeds with the tractor and bush hog, the other mares and foals cleared out of my way as I came through the gate. Not Foxxy! She came running up to the tractor and looked at me like "whatcha doin'?" Nothing bothers this mare.

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.