I am not sure if I will breed everyone or not. Some may begin training, and I will need to see where the market goes. As intent as I am on preservation, it is just as important to keep in mind one has to keep their herd where one can properly care for all of them, including if the ones you want to sell, don't. A preservation breeder doesn't run them to the auction to get rid of them-that defeats the purpose.
Silk-will be bred to Jangles after she foals.
Snippa-will be bred to Jangles
both of these mares will be 17 in '12, and both are outcrosses, so their foals will be very valuable to me if fillies, as they will be perfect for Mr when he and they are matured.
Fancy-will be bred to Jangles. She is happiest being a broodmare, and nervous when she's not.
Melody- if open will be bred to Jangles. If she foals in '12, she might then get the year off. She is still young, and there is plenty of time for breeding her later.
Lillie- I might hold open and train to drive. She has the bloodlines for it, and the size and build. She would also make a very nice show mare for a few years, and she is rather young...just 5 this year. If I do breed her, though, she will be covered by Mickey.
Princess-is actually a ditto of Lillie, only 4 yrs old. I would very much like to see her bred to Mickey though...so one of the two will be, for sure.
Sonata-if she foals to Revel (has not been US'd) she will get the year off. She is 5 this year. If she is open, she will go to Jangles, as I cannot wait to see that foal, esp after the leggy-necky-extreme colt Silk thru this year! Silk is 50% FWF Little Blue Boy, and Sonata is 31.25%. If the quality of that colt is repeated, you can be assured I will be pursuing more heavily Blue Boy mares! I deeply respect that line already, and the Shetland behind it, my gut tells me, will cross extremely well with the Shetland behind the Winks. What I saw this year....WOW. As proud as I am of my other foals, if I had one who fit 'extreme' in a show definition, he was it.
There it is!
