Cassius Kirov (with some numbers) I found his mother's family in the foundation stock, but the sire dwindled. The Foundation list people told me that somewhere in the past, there was too much Saddlebred in the sire side. He is black with picture book Morgan looks, mature and a sweetie. Sometimes we wonder why we have him because we don't have breeding facilities, but his former owner needed some money and we fell for him. I have a breeder friend (Arabians) who looks askance at me for just having him, but we decided he doesn't have to breed to earn his keep and we're just going to play it by ear.
We need horses like Morgans who don't take advantage of our ignorance. We outlived a family of Morgan/Percheron cross babies before we had these two.
Pardon me for rambling!
Hi JudyAnn,
What beautiful horses you have. I'd be curious to see photos of the pole barn. I'll going to check out part II now.
JudyAnn, what's his mother's family? Or sire and dam, even; I only have the first CD so can't look up anything in the last 11 years easily.
Okay, Poor Ace ~~ his official name is Caduceus Kirov, not Cassius. His reg. # is 121000 Sire: Equinox Eclipse with Equinox Benn Adam GRsire and Equinox Etude GRdam plus Benniefield's Ace, Waseeka's Charm, Courage of Equinox and Waseeka's Theme Son on the Sire side.
Dam: Caduceus Allegra with Shine on GRsire and Rachel Knox GRdam, plus Senator Graham, Miss Holliday, Merry Knox and Funquest Falconidae on the Dam's side.
The couple bought him from were really interesting. She was 92, riding a young proud cut gelding in 13 mile desert trail rides. She didn't drive a car, but said she would drive a team anywhere. A High Desert cattle woman who was a true horse whisperer.
Ah, Caduceus! I was looking like crazy for a Cassius prefix! Some very nice breeding in there, looks like predominantly Western Working and Equinox and show bloodlines. Love that Courage of Equinox blood.
Back to real estate (sorry, it's really easy for us horse people to get sidetracked), sounds like you're talking about a variation on a house-barn. Is that it?
It won't work on our property, but YES, the combo building is quite popular and a good use of a pole building design.
We have some friends who just moved here from Florida and their structure will be very classy, handy and take up a reasonable footprint on their property.
Hey, JudyAnn, what's Ace's registered name? We might be related - I have Morgans myself (used to breed a foal every year or so).