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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 ...
RanchBoss Cortez is now featured on U-tube and we have mastered the art of putting it into our web site for your perusal. We hope you enjoy it. The tip is to let it load whilst you read the rest of the news. It is 7 minutes long, but, we think, worth the wait. Cortez looks forward to being taken out from his paddock these days ... it is usually to go talk with a lovely mare, rather than be saddled up for some exercise. He is really enjoying the Spring season.
Haymeron Park Ruby Jane has, sadly, lost her beautiful Cortez foal. He was a lovely little buckskin colt, born 7 weeks early due to an infection in the placenta. He was to be our first Foundation Morgan born to Wilga Park. It was a very sad day indeed. Ruby Jane, aka RJ, foaled at 4.10am on Saturday 15 November, after a week of us trying to save the pregnancy ... but by 6.00am, though we tried with oxygen and a drip, the little fella began to convulse, so we immediatley asked the Vet to give him the injection to put him to sleep. It was quick, but it was heartbreaking.
Haymeron Park Ruby Jane
RJ was the most amazing mare. She stood and nibbled little bucky's soft hooves and nuzzled and nudged him with her nose, but allowed us to do all that we could to help him. We left them together afterwards and she stood guard over him for a long while. When she finally began to move away for periods of time to go eat some grass, we took the little buckskin boy away to be buried and then moved her out with the rest of the herd, so that she would move about. It was heart wrenching to watch her search for her baby all afternoon. She would move away from the herd and stand tall, head held high, and snuff the air for some hint of where her baby might be. So very sad.
We also had Mt Tawonga Marrella checked as she did not seem to be doing what she should for a mare so advanced in pregnancy ... and sure enough, she had also lost her foal, but obviously very early in her pregnancy. We now only have Eagleview Skybeau and Paprika to deliver us foals in early December.
Skybeau will give us a coloured colt from Ragtime Oro Blanco and Paprika should deliver us a filly from RanchBoss Cortez ... but it's a guessing game for colour with the filly ... it may be black, or bay or buckskin.
We recently caught up with some of the Wilga Park babies from previous years and it was wonderul to see them growing into such lovely young horses.
Wilga Park Malaynee and Wilga Park Tippuhana were born in the same year by outside stallions. Malaynee is by the 14'2hh Lippitt stallion, Karenza Malanion, and is being trained in the full Parelli method. Her owner, Jane, loves riding her. She is so intelligent Jane has to be really creative to think up new ways of keeping her interested, as she learns just so quickly.
Wilga Park Malaynee, just three years old
Wilga Park Tippuhana by Mt Tawonga Tarraji, a 15'1hh athletic black stallion, has begun her training under saddle with Linda Shore. Linda is extremely pleased with her. Tip is having a spell whilst she has her teeth done and has a visit to the Chiropractor. That normally happens prior to the starting process, but we were not quite prepared this time. I look forward to my first ride on Tippuhana. She looks to have a wonderful canter. I'm not sure how I'm going to find the time to ride Tip, Rocky and the wonderful Oscar .... good thing it is summer and there is lots of daylight!
Wilga Park Golden Ash is looking super as a two year old. He is going to be very much like his sire RanchBoss Cortez, but takes after his Dam, Red Bluff Paprika, in movement, and will make a fantastic cutting or camp drafting horse. He has enjoyed his time with his owners Kerry and Ike, as he's been allowed to just be a horse and learn from the other horses in the herd. It will soon be time to begin work with Ash. He obviously knows that humans are rather nice to be around. When Greg went to visit, Ash left the herd immediately to come say hello and get a scratch. Ash, as a youngster, used to follow Greg everywhere in the paddock, as he worked.
Wilga Park Golden Ash - almost 2 yrs old
Wilga Park Summer Beauty was born within days of Ash, and we were lucky enough to catch up with her recently as well. She reminds us of her Dam, Eagleview Skybeau, as a youngster. She will grow into a real beauty ... she will be just like Skybeau, aka Calypso, only in bay. Summer is living a life of luxury at Salt River Performance Horses in Western Australia and her owner, Tammy, will have the pleasure of starting her along with Kelly Stewart of Salt River. Summer, aka Chance, will have the absolute best start in life with Kelly and Tam doing the job.
Wilga Park Summer Beauty, almost 2 yrs old, with owner Tammy.
Mt Tawonga Nepean has also been busy giving some young great-nieces and nephews riding lessons. Nepean is so very kind to let the kids become accomplished and confident on his back.
MORE NEWS ITEMS IN OUR ARCHIVES:
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