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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 on for more details!
Wilga Park Serjania (Jack) and Wilga Park Chambourcin are growing into superb young horses. Next to buckskin, black is our favourite colour, and to have two extremely nice black babies, one also with the cream gene, is like being handed First Prize in the Breeding Stakes!
Chambourcin & Serjania - with their best mate, Chase, the Border Collie.
WP Serjania, Jack, has a gentle, people-loving personality and will always saunter over to us to ask for a scratch. He is now 12 weeks old and we believe he will finish well over 15hh. His size, conformation, super temperament and colour genetics make it almost impossible to geld this young colt.
As a stallion, like his Sire, he would never produce a chestnut foal, even to a chestnut mare. Depending on the colour genetics of the mare, Jack would produce black, smokey black and, though he doesn't carry a bay gene, if the mare did, bay or buckskin foals.
Serjania (RanchBoss Cortez (Imp USA) X Eagleview Skybeau)
WP Chambourcin is a filly with a very outgoing, confident personality. She would be the life of the party in human terms, where-as Jack would sit quietly back and admiringly allow her to take the limelight. Chambourcin likes to be first in the line-up for scratches and cuddles. She is now 6 weeks old and filling out to be a very substantial filly.
Chambourcin (pronounced Sham-ber-sin) - 6 weeks old and filling out beautifully
Sire: RanchBoss Cortez (imp USA) Dam: Mt Tawonga Natasha
Wilga Park Summer Beauty, just 15 months old, had a little training with our friend Tammie. Tammie completed a Clinton Anderson 3 day Clinic and the skills she learned there, along with her continuous Parelli style work with RM, her gorgeous Morgan gelding, have made her an awesome horsewoman with a young horse. Tammie volunteered to help prepare Summer Beauty for the Toowoomba Royal Show, coming up in April 08, so we readily agreed.
The photos below show Tammie working with Summer and getting her ready to have her first rug.
Wilga Park Summer Beauty (RanchBoss Cortez X Eagleview Skybeau), 15 months old, being prepared for the Show
Mt Tawonga Oscar has been out on a number of Trail rides with Tammie as well. Both Nepean, our School Master, and Oscar, my Elementary Dressage horse, need a little weight reduction, and Tam has devoted some time to having fun on these two boys.
Nepean is such an energetic, enthusiastic horse out on the Trail, unbeknownst to the kids who learn to ride on this 'plodder' in the arena! And Oscar finds a real freedom and loves to stretch out on the Trail, as well! Tammie has heaps of fun on both Nepean and Oscar. She tells me she just feels so 'Safe' on these boys!
And that's what Morgans are all about! Having safe, fun rides - no matter what the agenda!
Mt Tawonga Oscar, back from a Trail ride with Tammy.
Wilga Park Madagascar, just 14 months old, left home last weekend to go live with his new family at Caboolture, Queensland. I was so proud of this youngster as he was introduced to a horse float for the very first time. He walked straight on and backed out slowly when he was asked.
He did it so well a number of times that Lisa & Tim decided to see if he would self-load. Yup! Sure enough, he walked on with the lead rope slung over his back. What a champion! He travelled well for the 2 1/2 hour trip and has settled in with his paddock mate. We will see Maddie again when he comes back for the Toowoomba Royal Show in April.
Wilga Park Madagascar - with his new owners, Tim & Lisa
Sire: Ragtime Oro Blanco Dam: Mt Tawonga Marrella
Mt Tawonga Oscar and I shook the mothballs from our competition gear and ventured out to try our expertise at an Elementary Dressage test recently. It was the first competition since our very first Elementary way back in August 07 - a week before EI broke out in Australia and caused a complete National Lockdown on movement of horses.
Oscar did me proud! He scored a fantastic 63.03% with a 9/10 for his canter/walk/canter transition. He is my Super Hero!! I am looking forward to another year of learning with my ever-so-willing, gentle dance partner in the art of Dressage.
Mt Tawonga Oscar - just 6 years of age
Sire: Marvelous Encore (Imp USA) Dam: Mt Tawonga Margaret
We have updated some photos in the Photo Album. Take a browse through the photos. Clicking on a particular photo opens up a page with a larger view of the photo, along with a caption with the name of the horse.
MORE NEWS ITEMS IN OUR ARCHIVES:
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