Ruth Vale

Female

Caledon

Canada

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A Bit About Me and my Horse(s)
Bounce (Whippoorwill Amulet, out of Whippoorwill Locket by Sereno Dandy Vermont) has been with me since he was two. He has been trained in dressage, loves to jump and has been driven in training level CDE competitions since he was 3.

He is now 18 and due to changes in my life is now semi-retired to trail riding and keeping us both healthy. He a Foundation Morgan 15'1h with a sturdy old-style build. I have done nearly all of the riding and most of the driving training, with support from Jan Chuchman and John Lassetter among others. He has been a confidence builder, has worked to 2nd level dressage with some third level moves in the past. He has been a longe line school master, point-and-shoot over fences, a safe hack (he does water!) and a kind guardian of timid folk - equine or human. Quiet, sane, but no deadhead - he can pull a spin spook with the best of them..
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  • Gaia Vincenzi

    Hi from Italy =)
    What a beautiful pictures!

    Please visit my horseblog:

    www.iconadeironchi.blogspot.com

    Stay in touch also on facebook:

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    Hope to see you soon,

    Gaia

    Sep 9, 2011

  • Jackie Cochran

    Your horse's sire is from Whippoorwill farm!  Back in the sixties I fell in love with Whippoorwill Duke, of all the horses in the Morgan magazine he was the one I liked.

    Sep 28, 2011

  • Jackie Cochran

    I got the Morgan Horse magazine back in the middle 1960's for one year.  I decided to fall in love with Arabs (for one thing they were still showing natural back then) but I've always liked Morgans.  I like what I saw of Wh. Duke's disposition in the ads, so different from the fire breathing show horses!

    Mary Jean Vasiloff was very kind to me when I wrote her, answered questions and she sent me her calender.  I also love her book "Alone With Your Horse", still got it somewhere in my piles of horse books.

    I am so glad that Morgan breeders are saving the old Morgan type.  I think it was Reese who brought in the Saddlebred lines, after messing the Morgan up he went to run Kelloggs Arabians in California and also changed the Arabian from the foundation conformation, it was not Saddlebred enough for him!  I wish that guy had kept out of both breeds, we'd have a lot more small, compact, food-efficient and sane horses around instead of imitations of fire breathing dragons!

     

    Sep 30, 2011