This year Katavi blessed us with yet another beautiful filly by Cassini II. Charlotte has incredibly long legs and looks like she is going to go grey like her father. Thankfully Katavi took to her mama duties this time around and is in love with her little girl.
We have been dying to breed one of our mares to Cassini II for years now, and this dream became reality this year when Katavi gave us a gorgeous filly on April 1st. She unfortunately didn't take to her duties as a mama however, and we had to enlist the use of a nurse mare.
The incredible people at Manning Equine found us Taffy, who took the filly on as her own right away.
Willow and Taffy are now home at Braeburn and are doing incredibly well!
This fall our homebred Tenzin B out of Sophie by Westporte qualified for the prestigious Governor's General Cup and Liutenant General Cup for three year old Canadian bred horses at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.
The Royal environment is enough to faze an experienced horse, but Tenzin was as calm as a cucumber!
Here are some photos from the qualifiers at RCRA in September:
He was 7th on the line, and 8th under saddle in a super competitive group of three year olds!
I just realized that this post is WAY overdue, but I am going to post any way!
In April La Sophie had a beautiful, tall and LEGGY colt by Couleur Rubin. This is a full sibling to last years filly India B. We have named him "Belmont" aka "Monty!"
We are loving this cross and will probably repeat it again in 2013 for a 2014 foal :)
Katavi, our 3 year old homebred mare by Cabardino out of Leda by Lacros, has qualified for the Lieutenant General Cup and the Governors General Cup at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, Ontario.
Check out some photos of Kat and her amazing handler/ rider Shawn Ferguson from the qualifiers:
Ava (by Voltaire) will also be joining Katavi at the Royal Winter Fair competing in the Adult Amateur 18-35 division with Raewyn.
At two years old our babies begin light work with tack, and are introduced to the jumping chute. Our 2009 gelding Tenzin B (Westporte X Lacros) came into his own this summer and really seemed to enjoy the break from the ordinary. Check out this video of Tenzin free jumping:
I really love the stallion Westporte from Country Lane Warmbloods as he stamps his young with incredible movement as well as expressive, wide faces with large, charismatic eyes. His foals have also been doing exceptionally well on the line this year, winning everywhere from IHF finals to the Devon Horse show. I am thinking about using him for our mare Vienna next year.
Our lovely boy Tenzin was sold the the Manning family this past summer. These are some photos that we took of him before he left:
We are expecting two foals this year and are extremely excited about both of them!
Sophie is in foal to Couleur Rubin, a cross that we believe will produce an exceptional jumper foal. I love Couleur Rubin - he is extremely sporty and athletic, has tons of scope and big, beautiful movement. Sophie consistently produces beautiful, well moving and athletic babies. We have really high hopes for this cross which will most likely be repeated for 2012. Sophie is due at the end of April so stay tuned for our foal announcements!
Couleur Rubin:
Vienna is in foal to Redwine and is due in May. This is her first foal and we cannot wait to see what she produces. Redwine is a stallion based out of Gray Fox Farms in California that we just love. He only has a few foal crops in the ground in North America but he is consistently throwing beautiful hunter type foals with very correct conformation and beautiful heads.
Redwine:
Check back in the following months for updates on our babies!
