The Story Behind "Krayola"
I saw the increase coming for the double registered horses with the relaxation and introduction into the AQHA again regarding their white rule changes in 2008 when I was able to get both sets of papers on one of my show mares. At that time I started planning for the creation of a stallion that would offer a well built, easily trained individual with free flowing movement and not "manufactured" gaits... to promote and eventually stand at the farm. After deciding on the stallion, his sire, Scenic Rio Krymsun through genetics, track record and a solid maternal side... and picking the perfect mare, his dam, MS Love Matter, the plans were set and fingers crossed that my dream of what I wanted to create would come to life.
"Krayola" was born on my farm in 2009, after I heard the foaling alarm go off I turned to look at the monitor and tears filled my eyes when I saw the color I had only hoped for staring back up at the screen. His little milk mustache was already dry and he had been out of his mama less than 10 minutes. He loped around and my mouth dropped open... he could lope easily in circles around his dam in the 12x12 stall! He was friendly from the start, like his dam, and we bonded instantly. I have had several foals, several horses, but something about this fella just clicked differently than all the rest. He was very independent and would come to me in the stall leaving his mama just to get a pat or a scratch on the neck.
His life changed abruptly when he was just three weeks old, as we bred the mare back the same way AI, and she came back from the breeding farm after confirmation of her new pregnancy and she began to colic. After many hours at the vet hospital and trying absolutely everything, the decision was made to load up little Krayola by himself and head back home alone. He hopped right on the trailer, having been led for the first time when we decided to leave the mare... and had no fear that he would not ever see his mama again. He trusted me and jumped right up the step up and stood quietly, even munching hay. He nickered a little bit as we went down the road but overall didnt understand much of what was going on. When we arrived back at the barn I unloaded him and he walked into the stall like a gentleman.
I decided to get him a "friend" but did not want to bottle feed him. He was eating some grain already with his mama so I looked around, found him a little goat friend that had just started eating grain and they lived in the stall together growing on equine junior, foal lac milk pellets and alfalfa. "Goatee" and Krayola were instant buddies, he would scratch goatees back with his teethers but not play too rough. When Kray was turned out he had to have Goatee there to play with. He grew well, and Goatee did too.
When the other babies were ready to be weaned from their dams, I put Krayola in the field with them to learn "herd manners". It was everything I could do to keep Goatee away as she would try to protect him by getting in between Kray and the others in a "tussle". Goatee was run over a few times, but they learned to live together and he learned herd manners.
He was started under saddle and trail ridden, used to push calves around and just go around easily as a two year old. I didnt want him pushed and wanted him to last and stay sound. He was shown locally in hunter classes as a three year old and it was evident he was going to be one that could do whatever was asked of him.
His four year old year he went into training with Bregman Pleasure Horses, and Joe Bregman decided to take a chance on a little paint horse and put the time into him to make a great one. He was shown in limited classes in AQHA, that was my main goal... to prove a colored horse could go out there and compete (and win) with the quarter horses. Our quarter horse circuit is much tougher than the paint circuit in North Carolina. The classes are much smaller though so even a win hardly gets the points as it used to. He won some big combined junior and senior classes though and was shown once at the paint show as seen below.
Joe has had some health issues for many years and it was tough for him to get around the pen. I made the decision to scratch the world show and give Kray a break the 2014 season to grow. Hes now 16h and is ready again to show... which we will likely do in 2015 after he stands the early breeding season...
Below see the videos from 2015 just out of the breeding shed! (he bred his last mare on monday, we went to the show on Thursday!)
I saw the increase coming for the double registered horses with the relaxation and introduction into the AQHA again regarding their white rule changes in 2008 when I was able to get both sets of papers on one of my show mares. At that time I started planning for the creation of a stallion that would offer a well built, easily trained individual with free flowing movement and not "manufactured" gaits... to promote and eventually stand at the farm. After deciding on the stallion, his sire, Scenic Rio Krymsun through genetics, track record and a solid maternal side... and picking the perfect mare, his dam, MS Love Matter, the plans were set and fingers crossed that my dream of what I wanted to create would come to life.
"Krayola" was born on my farm in 2009, after I heard the foaling alarm go off I turned to look at the monitor and tears filled my eyes when I saw the color I had only hoped for staring back up at the screen. His little milk mustache was already dry and he had been out of his mama less than 10 minutes. He loped around and my mouth dropped open... he could lope easily in circles around his dam in the 12x12 stall! He was friendly from the start, like his dam, and we bonded instantly. I have had several foals, several horses, but something about this fella just clicked differently than all the rest. He was very independent and would come to me in the stall leaving his mama just to get a pat or a scratch on the neck.
His life changed abruptly when he was just three weeks old, as we bred the mare back the same way AI, and she came back from the breeding farm after confirmation of her new pregnancy and she began to colic. After many hours at the vet hospital and trying absolutely everything, the decision was made to load up little Krayola by himself and head back home alone. He hopped right on the trailer, having been led for the first time when we decided to leave the mare... and had no fear that he would not ever see his mama again. He trusted me and jumped right up the step up and stood quietly, even munching hay. He nickered a little bit as we went down the road but overall didnt understand much of what was going on. When we arrived back at the barn I unloaded him and he walked into the stall like a gentleman.
I decided to get him a "friend" but did not want to bottle feed him. He was eating some grain already with his mama so I looked around, found him a little goat friend that had just started eating grain and they lived in the stall together growing on equine junior, foal lac milk pellets and alfalfa. "Goatee" and Krayola were instant buddies, he would scratch goatees back with his teethers but not play too rough. When Kray was turned out he had to have Goatee there to play with. He grew well, and Goatee did too.
When the other babies were ready to be weaned from their dams, I put Krayola in the field with them to learn "herd manners". It was everything I could do to keep Goatee away as she would try to protect him by getting in between Kray and the others in a "tussle". Goatee was run over a few times, but they learned to live together and he learned herd manners.
He was started under saddle and trail ridden, used to push calves around and just go around easily as a two year old. I didnt want him pushed and wanted him to last and stay sound. He was shown locally in hunter classes as a three year old and it was evident he was going to be one that could do whatever was asked of him.
His four year old year he went into training with Bregman Pleasure Horses, and Joe Bregman decided to take a chance on a little paint horse and put the time into him to make a great one. He was shown in limited classes in AQHA, that was my main goal... to prove a colored horse could go out there and compete (and win) with the quarter horses. Our quarter horse circuit is much tougher than the paint circuit in North Carolina. The classes are much smaller though so even a win hardly gets the points as it used to. He won some big combined junior and senior classes though and was shown once at the paint show as seen below.
Joe has had some health issues for many years and it was tough for him to get around the pen. I made the decision to scratch the world show and give Kray a break the 2014 season to grow. Hes now 16h and is ready again to show... which we will likely do in 2015 after he stands the early breeding season...
Below see the videos from 2015 just out of the breeding shed! (he bred his last mare on monday, we went to the show on Thursday!)