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February 2009
RanchBoss Cortez, with Imke Quast - 3 Times Champion at Oakey Show in Open Company!
Golden Glory and Jalapeno are still winning hearts.
Our expected Foals have been sex tested ...
Practicing for the Morgan Breed Display at the Toowoomba Royal ...
Wilga Park Serjania, Wilga Park Tippuhana and Wilga Park Golden Ash are making their new owners tremendously happy.
Cortez & Imke - 3 Times Champion at Oakey Show
RanchBoss Cortez has started the Show Season in excellent form. Imke Quast, his Handler and Rider, took him out to the Oakey Show where they won Champion All Breeds, Champion Buckskin Stallion and Champion Ridden Buckskin. It was no easy win, as it was against a good sized field of quality horses. We are so proud of the achievements of these two.
Wilga Park Golden Glory and Wilga Park Jalapeno at three months of age, are still winning hearts with children and adults alike. These two just love human company and give great joy to all our visitors when they visit the Foal Paddock. Both foals are happy to give rides to the youngsters and to be cuddled, then kissed on the nose as a 'thank-you'.
Golden Glory - 3 months old - with Flynn who had just had a ride on her
Jalapeno - 3 months old - with John, and checking out what young Flynn is up to
Godlen Glory with our niece, Nina, on board and Wilga Park Jalapeno just looking pretty
All six of our mares are pregnant! Eagleview Skybeau (Calypso) is once again in foal to Ragtime Oro Blanco. Our three year old mare, Wilga Park Tippuhana, is in foal to Cortez, along with Haymeron Park Ruby Jane, Mt Tawonga Natasha, Mt Tawonga Marrella and Red Bluff Paprika. All but Calypso and Tippuhana have had the embryos sex tested at this stage. Marrella will deliver her foal first, in October, and it is to be a colt. Then Natasha (Elle) will have her filly foal, followed closely by Paprika's foal ... sex unknown as the embryo was just not going to move into the right position at the time of the scan! That one will be a surprise for us.
Wilga Park Tippuhana, pregnant to RanchBoss Cortez
Haymeron Park Ruby Jane is going to deliver a colt foal, and let's hope it is as gorgeous as the little buckskin colt she lost by delivering 7 weeks early in 2008, through placentitus. RJ's foal will be followed within a few weeks by Skybeau and Tip's foals. Both these mares are having colts as well!! I am very pleased we are having a majority of colts. These boys will be gelded and available as sensible, smart, talented and good looking riding horses.
Our Morgans will be participating in a fantastic Display at the Toowoomba Royal on 27 March. There will be 10 Morgans with Riders and Handlers doing some Spectacular things. We have wonderful friends who have volunteered to perform on our horses. It will be a display well worth watching!! The horses and riders are having so much fun practicing for this, I think they will all be very sorry once the big event is over! Here are some photos of them all practicing their routines.
Mt Tawonga Oscar and David, Mt Tawonga Nepean with Tam and Chase the Dog (with Chloe on behind)
Practicing the Finale ... the Wheel in the Quadrille - they will carry flags for this
The Pas de Deux in Long Reins, and Wilga Park Malaynee with Jane showing their Horsemanship skills
Wilga Park Serjania (Jack) has left us for his new home in Victoria. We are so very lucky to have some really lovely people purchase our babies. Jan and Jack have bonded already and he is now sharing a paddock with an older Pony mare, Prinnie, who is his best buddy. I miss Jack every day when I go to feed the herd, but I know that he has a wonderful future ahead of him with Jan and her Instructor and Jan's 10 year old daughter.
Wilga Park Tippuhana will also leave us to go to her new home, but not before she has delivered and weaned her Cortez foal. My very first riding Instructor, Rachel, who moved to Western Australia, has purchased Tippuhana to breed some lovely Peformance Morgans, and Morgans to suit those riders who want a horse they can trust; a horse that wants to be with their owner and give them a safe and enjoyable ride whether it be having fun on the Trail or the Beach, or performing in a discipline of their owners choice.
Wilga Park Golden Ash will be moving to WA as well. He is going to a home, in Broome, where he will enjoy a life of companionship, lots of enjoyable rides and lots of Equine Bowen Therapy, (whether he needs it or not) from his new owner, Sue. I don't think Ash will complain too much at all about a life like that! He will also get to meet up with his foal mate, Wilga Park Summer Beauty (aka Chance). Chance will be living not too far from Ash, in Broome as well. They were born within 3 days of each other and were inseparable as foals.
Ash's current owners are tremendously happy that he has found a home where he will get to do lots of interesting things. They made the brave decision to part with Ash when they realised that he was not going to have the opportunity to learn the things a young horse needs to learn at his age, simply through a lack of time. We commend them for putting Ash's needs before their own dreams.
Wilga Park Serjania (Jack) at 15 months - heading off to his new home
Wilga Park Tippuhana sold to Rachel in WA, and Wilga Park Golden Ash sold to Sue in WA
MORE NEWS ITEMS IN OUR ARCHIVES:
January 2009
Wilga Park goes International!!
Golden Glory, buckskin filly and Jalapeno, the palomino colt are growing beautifully ...
Our 2009 crop of foals have been conceived!
Wilga Park Serjania and Wilga Park Tippuhana maturing into quality horses... Read More
December 2008
Buckskin Filly and Palomino Colt born ...
Gumbooya Kameko in foal to Ragtime Oro Blanco for a coloured foal - to be imported to New Zealand by Tui Morgans ...
Mt Tawonga Oscar having fun with Bernadette ... Read More
October - November 2008
RanchBoss Cortez on U-Tube ...
Catching up with Wilga Park Progeny ...
Mt Tawonga Nepean teaching the kids how it is done ...
See Cortez under saddle ... Read More
September 2008
Wilga Park Tippuhana - under saddle ...
Indigo Roc the Boat showing great promise under saddle ...
RanchBoss Cortez and Imke have some fun playing at cross country ....Read More
August 2008
Wilga Park Malaynee, the very first foal we bred, is started under saddle ...
Mt Tawonga Oscar places in Elementary Dressage Competitions ...
Wilga Park Morgans blitz the field at Gold Coast Show. RanchBoss Cortez is Supreme Champion three times over, Wilga Park Tippuhana Champion Morgan Mare and Mt Tawonga Oscar Champion Morgan Gelding ... Read More
July 2008
RanchBoss Cortez trys his style at Jumping.
Gill from Shibui Morgan Stud purchases Wilga Park Chambourcin.
Indigo Roc The Boat (Rocky), pure Morgan gelding, to join Wilga Park's Riding School ... Read More
May - June 2008
RanchBoss Cortez visits Gypsie Lodge Equestrian Centre
Nila & Andrew Visit Wilga Park Morgans
RanchBoss Cortez Supreme Champion Stallion at the Blackbutt Show.
Morgans at Toowoomba Regional Dressage Championships.
Mt Tawonga Nepean - delighting the kids with horse rides ... Read More
April 2008
Wilga Park Summer Beauty leaves for Western Australia.
Haymeron Park Ruby Jane to have a Foundation Morgan colt foal to Cortez.
Preparation for the Toowoomba Royal ... Read More
March 2008
The two black foals are growing superbly.
Wilga Park Summer Beauty and Mt Tawonga Oscar have fun with Tammy.
Wilga Park Madagascar leaves home.
Mt Tawonga Oscar excels himself at competition ... Read More
February 2008
Haymeron Park Ruby Jane (RJ), Foundation Morgan Mare, is in foal to RanchBoss Cortez, Foundation Morgan Stallion.
Wilga Park Chambourcin's colour genetics are complete.
Embryos have been sex tested ... Read More
January 2008
More breaking News for January .... Eagleview Skybeau (Calypso) in foal to Ragtime Oro Blanco (aka Casper); Mt Tawonga Natasha's filly foal is born: and colour genetics on Eagleview Skybeau, Wilga Park Serjania, Mt Tawonga Marrella and Red Bluff Paprika. Read More
November/December 07
A Black colt is born ... RanchBoss Cortez, home from the Trainer ... and
Why I love Morgans! Read More
Sept - Oct 07
Cortez at the Reining Trainer & new For Sale page! Read More
June- August 07
Laidley Show, Foundation Morgan Stock, Make it Rein in August and Dressage! Read More
May 2007
CDI-W Stallion Parade, Foals Due, Blackbutt Show and Dressage!
CDI-W - International Level Dressage Event
RanchBoss Cortez Stole the Show at the Stallion Parade, May 26th! Read More
March 2007
Show News, Mares in Foal and Horses for Sale!
RanchBoss Cortez - Supreme Champion Dilute at the Toowoomba Royal! Read More
MORE NEWS ITEMS IN OUR ARCHIVES:
February 2007
RanchBoss Cortez - Supreme Champion Stallion.
February was the beginning of an exciting Show Season for us. Read More
January 2007
January saw the birth of the very first Australian foal by the superb Morgan stallion, Ragtime Oro Blanco, here at Wilga Park.
It was also an eventful month for our 3 yr old filly, Haymeron Park Ruby Jane. Read More
December 2006
December has been a wonderful month for us. Our first two RanchBoss Cortez foals have been born! Read More
October 2006
October sure was an exciting, if not hectic, month for us.
The Sunshine Coast Dressage Championships, Queensland State Dressage Championships, South Queensland Dilute Championships and the Allora Championships, and maybe just one little trail ride! Read More
September 2006
Gold Coast Centerary Show. Huge three-day event...what a milestone for RanchBoss Cortez!
We were invited by one of the Assistant Ring Masters of the Gold Coast Show to take Cortez to the Centenary Show. The invitation came after she had judged him at a Dressage Competition. We decided to take up the invitation and were so very pleased that we did. Read More
August 2006
RanchBoss Cortez - Colour Genetics: EE Aa nCr
We felt it was important to have Cortez's colour genetics in certificate form, for those interested in colour. We sent hair samples to the States for testing for three factors - Red/Black, Agouti and Cream. Read More
Preparation for the Breeding Season
With the breeding season soon upon us, we decided we should have Cortez collected for testing in differing extenders for shipping chilled semen. The results were impressive. Read More
May 2006
Toowoomba Regional Championships and the Stallion Parade
We recently had the Regional Dressage Championships here in Toowoomba and...nah!!...no first ribbons or prizes, but what a great weekend we had. It was exhausting and exhilarating. We were running on adrenalin as we rushed from one deadline to the next. The highlights of the weekend for us were Mt Tawonga Natasha in her Novice Freestyle and RanchBoss Cortez's impact on the audience in the Stallion Parade. Read More
April 2006
RanchBoss Cortez and his start in Dressage
Since arriving in Australia and being released from Quarantine on 22 December 2005, RanchBoss Cortez has settled in well and has begun to make his mark in Dressage Circles. Read More