Home - May 2007 News
May 07
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!
Cortez was certainly the big Crowd Pleaser at the Saturday evening event that was held just before the Grand Prix Freestyle. Each of the 8 stallions in the Parade had 3 minutes each to show off their talents, in the Indoor Arena, at the Toowoomba Showgrounds, and the biggest, most enthusiastic crowd response was for the Golden Morgan Stallion.
RanchBoss Cortez - Stallion Parade CDI-W Toowoomba
We saw some breathtaking Passage and Piaffe from some high performing warmblood stallions and then, to the whoops and whistles and cat-calls of the crowd, in gallops RanchBoss Cortez, the golden Morgan stallion. Linda Shore, from RiverRange Warmbloods, is our Instructor and Horse Trainer and she really enjoys her stress-free rides on Cortez. She and Cortez showed the crowd what a wonderful temperament the Morgan has. They galloped around with the buckle of the reins resting on his wither, with Linda waving to the crowd so that they could see she was riding 'no hands'. When she picked the reins up she then showed what a finely tuned Dressage horse Cortez can be with this lovely half-pass across the arena. He did whatever she asked of him, and he was superb!
He was also very popular in the bidding for the Stallion Service in the Silent Auction over the weekend. His excellent temperament won heaps of hearts.
Foals Due
Eagleview Skybeau (aka Calypso)
'Calypso', our beautiful black mare, is carrying her second Cortez foal, due December 07. The ultrasound shows it is a colt foal ... and the Vet is very sure of that. He will be black, bay or buckskin and should be a stunning foal. He will be for sale and will become someone's future lifetime buddy. With just half the talent of his parents who, between them, have shown potential in dressage, reining, jumping, cow/horse work, hacking and just plain old trail riding, he will be a winner in any arena, or very happy to be just a regular family horse.
Eagleview Skybeau - expecting a Cortez Colt foal Dec 07
Mt Tawonga Natasha (Elegance)
Elegance is having a Cortez Filly foal!! She has hung up her competition saddle for the last time, and has given up the opportunity to take those Supreme Champion Morgan Sashes that she was used to, and will now join the broodmare paddock. Elle was training at Elementary level Dressage, with a little Medium thrown in, prior to being put to Cortez. She and Cortez should produce a performance horse of the highest quality. Elle is due to foal down in January 2008 and as it is her first foal, we are really looking forward to this one. This foal is most likely to be bay or buckskin. We are hoping, of course, for the buckskin, but whatever colour it is, it will be a stunningly athletic foal.
Mt Tawonga Natasha - Supreme Champion Morgan
Mt Tawonga Marrella
Marrella, sadly, did not carry her pregnancy. On the brighter side, this allows us to bring Marrella back into a better breeding time frame, and also, as a dry mare, it will be easier to leave her at the Breeding Centre to be bred with the Ragtime Oro Blanco frozen semen for a 100% garaunteed colured foal (either palomino or buckskin) for next year. The quality of her first two foals is unquestionable, and, in particular, her buckskin colt foal, Wilga Park Madagascar, is exceptional. Marrella was purchased in foal (with our lovely Tippuhana), so she was never started. However, her movement is free flowing and ground covering, and she has certainly passed it to her progeny.
Marrella & 2005 foal WP Tippuhana & WP Madagascar, Jan 07 foal
Blackbutt Show
Cortez does it again.
RanchBoss Cortez - Reserve Champion Ridden
Dressage for the young ones
Haymeron Park Ruby Jane (RJ) who is just 3 yrs old, and Mt Tawonga Dusky went out to a Dressage competition on 03 June. It was RJ's very first Dressage competiton and she, in typical Morgan style, brought home the 1st and 2nd placings in her two tests. Dusky, who was competing for the second time in her entire life, was very proud to bring home the 3rd and 4th placings in her two tests. We were so very proud of these two mares. Both have huge potential in Dressage.
Haymeron Park Ruby Jane, and Mt Tawonga Dusky with Jane Warren aboard
Our Foals for Sale
With two more on the way, we look forward to any enquiries on our 2006 foals.
Wilga Park Summer Beauty - 'Bay Filly'
Wilga Park Summer Beauty, bay filly by Cortez out of Eagleview Skybeau, is available for sale. Summer will be as pretty as her Dam, but will be a little taller, finishing 15+hh. Her breeding is superb and, apart from being an exceptional asset to any breeder, she should make an awesome competition horse.
Wilga Park Madagascar - Buckskin Colt
Madagascar is by Ragtime Oro Blanco ('Casper'), the perlino Morgan stallion from the USA, who is owned by a closed syndicate. Marrella and 'Casper' have produced this stunning colt, who, we believe, is stallion material. We would love to keep him and have him as a junior stallion one day, but as we have his Sire's frozen semen, we will sell this boy as a stunning gelding to the right home. He should finish around 15'2hh and he is superbly put together, with the sweetest, most 'willing to please' temperament one could ask for.
Wilga Park Madagascar - buckskin colt by Ragtime Oro Blanco (6 weeks old)
The Buckskin Boys, Golden Ash (5months) and Madagascar (4 months)
Enquiries on our foals are most welcome.
Wilga Park Golden Ash - Buckskin Colt - SOLD
Wilga Park Golden Ash, the first buckskin colt to be born in Australia (RanchBoss Cortez X Red Bluff Paprika), was sold at 5 days of age. Ash has captured both his Dam's laid back nature and his Sire's good looks and willingness to please. He will make a stunning performance horse for his proud new owner.
Wilga Park Golden Ash, buckskin colt, at 11 weeks of age - SOLD at 5 days of age
MORE NEWS ITEMS IN OUR ARCHIVES:
March 2007
Show News, Mares in Foal and Horses for Sale!
RanchBoss Cortez - Supreme Champion Dilute at the Toowoomba Royal! Read More
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