Kick the Cat

Quarterhorse, filly born 2009.

Last but not least in our presentation of our horses is Cat. We had to wait awhile on this one as we had some serious trouble getting her mama in foal. We imported seemen from cutting bred stud Wild Thing DNA. A Smart Little Lena son with the wonderful Autumn Boon as dam. Wild Thing earned $115.000 for owner/breeder Bill Freeman before being retired to stud.

On our last try, the last straw of seemen, the mare took! The redish, bony heap of legs that was foaled out in the pasture last spring had us thinking there was some mixup with the seemen, as we store it at a standardbred breeding facility. But she started filling out eventually and though she still is a leggy creature she´s starting to show the graceful moves of her mothers.

She´s not built in the cuttinghorse mold, with hocks close to the ground, low headset and all of that but she shows deffinate bridlehorse looks. That classic headset and rise in the chest you want. She´s red though, with a will of her own wich she clearly demonstrates every now and then. I really like her though as she´s both personable and affectionate and should be a really fun horse to work and ride.

She´ll be started slow and easy in the California bridlehorse tradition when the time comes and we´ll take it from there.