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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.
Wilga Park is so very pleased to be able to offer frozen semen from RanchBoss Cortez to the USA and Canada.
We now have sole ownership of frozen semen collected prior to Cortez being exported from California, and stored at Select Breeders, Pioneer Equine Hospital in California, USA. We will be only too happy to provide this excellent quality stallion to astute Morgan breeders. There is no fear of CEM issues with this semen as it was collected in 2005, well before any outbreak in the States.
Cortez is highly valued and sought after for his Foundation status and Working Western bloodlines.
Click here for Cortez's Pedigree
Wilga Park Golden Glory was born a horse, but one could be forgiven for thinking she was a puppy dog. Glory trots up to the fence, nickering, when we drive past the paddock. She is so irrisistable, we always stop to give her a scratch. I'm sure she even wags her tail as she closes her eyes to enjoy the attention.
This filly's personality is just adorable and even grown men melt when she gives them the 'Glory' treatment.
Glory certainly has inherited her Sire and Dam's best attributes. She is a laid back, 'thinking' horse, with a huge dose of intelligence and masses of ability. One we are very proud to have bred, indeed.
Golden Glory - 4 weeks old
Wilga Park Jalapeno is also growing beautifully and, as yet, hasn't lost his stunning looks and colour. His peronality is not quite as forward as Glory. He tends to ask for his scratches, where Glory just expects them! Jal will be taller than Glory, but at this stage they are well matched in their foal games together. Jal does the colt thing and rears up to put his front feet on Glory and attempts to take a nibble of any bits he can reach; she, in turn, uses her innate cow sense and simply pushes back at him with her shoulder or her hip. Their antics are such fun to watch ... and they are such time wasters!
Jalapeno (Ragtime Oro Blanco X Eagleview Skybeau) - 3 weeks old
Wilga Park Serjania is still growing at a great rate. At 13 months of age he has already reached a comfortable 14'1hh. Serjania (aka Jack) also granted me an excellent photo opportunity recently after I'd given him one of his first baths. Jack was happily tied to the rail with Oscar and Rocky (his first real experience in the lesson of patience at the rail ... and he passed with flying colours) when I decided to go get the camera. We went into the arena together, and I'm not sure who was doing the most work ... me or Jack. I think I was the one doing more running trying to get Jack to become a little animated for the photo shoot.
Wilga Park Serjania - Jack - 13 months old
Wilga Park Tippuhana is also growing into a beautiful mare. Her movement is pure joy to watch in the arena. Tip has certainly inherited her Dam (Mt Tawonga Marrella) and her Sire's (Mt Tawonga Tarraji) floating trot.
Wilga Park Tippuhana - 3 years
Mt Tawonga Marrella's expected foal has been sex tested and the first foal of the 2009 season will be a colt.
Haymeron Park Ruby Jane, Red Bluff Paprika and Mt Tawonga Natasha are also in foal to RanchBoss Cortez and their foals will be sex tested throughout the month of February. We have such faith in the quality of our mares and our magnificent stallion, that we can confidently say that these babies will have awesome ability and fantastic temperaments.
Eaglieview Skybeau has been inseminated with the Ragtime Oro Blanco semen. We are still playing the waiting game to see if she is in foal. The first foal, Jalapeno, from this cross is so stunning, we hope to do it again.
MORE NEWS ITEMS IN OUR ARCHIVES:
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