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.................................................................. PAGE 1 Lead Line is a publication for the Alabama Morgan Horse Club. May 2008
The Lead Line
Please join us at our next Club meeting!!! Saturday, May 17th Noon until … at the Spirit of Hope Youth Ranch 194 King’s Ranch Drive Wilsonville, AL 35186 (205) 669-0790
Directions: From Birmingham, take 280 East and travel approximately 16 miles past the Summit shopping center. You will pass a WalMart on your right in Chelsea and a clock tower, also on the right. Turn right onto Hwy 55. There will be a sign for the King’s Ranch at this turn. There will also be a small gas station and The White House, a wedding venue. After traveling about 4 ½ miles on Hwy 55, you will see a graveyard with a concrete block picnic pavilion and should prepare to turn right onto Hwy 109. After traveling almost a mile on this road, you will turn left into the King’s Ranch property. There is big red sign at the entrance. After entering the King’s Ranch property, follow the signs to Spirit of Hope Youth Ranch. From Auburn, take 280 West to Chelsea, turn Left on Hwy 55 and continue as stated above. From I-65, take Exit 228, go left onto Hwy 25 and go about 14 miles. Turn left onto Hwy 55, turn left onto Hwy 109, continue as stated above. Foaling Box:
Venturous Jill raf (Open Road Blaze of Glory x Venturous Amanda), chestnut filly, foaled April 4, 2008 Unnamed foal (Primrose Donald Ash x Horton's Kate Moro), bay filly, foaled March 30, 2008
Ray and Carol Potts, Bold Venture Farm, Eva, AL
AMHC Contact Information
President: Carol Potts 91 Potts Rd Eva, AL 35621 256-482-3953 alippitt@hiwaay.net
Treasurer:
Pat
Cargile 1824 Hwy 82 E Mathews, AL 36052
334-281-295582E Mathews, 3605 334-281-2955 Secretary: Val Jones 1990 Lee Rd 86 Waverly, AL 36879 334-524-6514 valamarfarms@dishmail.net
Newsletter: Dannise Ray 3923 Hwy 61 Columbiana, AL 35051 205-669-2544 nesiray@yahoo.com
Please contact any of your officers with information that you would like to include in future newsletters. We need Reporters for each area of the state!
Please feel free to make copies of this newsletter and distribute to feed stores, friends, neighbors, etc.
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Farm News
Valamar Morgans Farm News
Spring 2008 Greetings everyone. Spring has arrived and its so nice to see all that winter hair come off the horses. We have several of our Morgans for sale , hoping to find that special home for them. . Several colts will be for sale. Some will be geldings in a few weeks. We are gearing up for the Great Oaks Driving Trial to be held the weekend of April 26, 27th. I will be taking Valamar Dahlia , who is a 5 yr old that we raised. This will be her and my very first time at an event like this. Originally I had planned to take Randallane Dayspring, aka Yankee to this but was cautioned that with taking a filly I would have way less complications since this was to be my first competition. Yankee is a good boy but Dahlia will be much easier. I need to put all my concentrations on the event. Since I switched horses midway , Dahlia and I have not had the driving time in but things should go well, she seems to have caught on much faster than I in the cones and dressage practice. I want to add that all our young horses are handled with thoughts of them becoming driving horses in their future. With the price of gas we all might need a good driving horse to take us to work. Hope this finds everyone enjoying their horses. Come see us, phone 334-524-6514 Val and Tony Jones Waverly, AL www.valamarmorgans.com valamarfarms@dishmail
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Great Oaks HDT by Val Jones Valamar Morgans Waverly, AL
I had the pleasure of competing at the Great Oaks HDT this past weekend, which took the place of the Georgia International CDE. The event was held on Charlene and Tom Hildenburg’s farm in Newnan, Georgia. My goal was to learn as much as possible while enjoying myself and making sure my pony was happy and not stressed. This was a first time event for me and also my pony. Cones were on the air strip and were long , narrow and tricky with courses set up for training and prelim. The marathan course was a blend of driving across the pastures, down the air strip and through the woods. The water hazard was made from natural water and looked scary but the entries drove thru it fairly well. Dressage was in a great flat spot, one had to travel quite a ways to get to it. There was warmup in the infield of the hazards and around the dressage arena. Valamar Dahlia is 5 this year and she stayed calm throughout the weekend despite all the noise, every one has a ATV or golf cart as too much walking if one doesn’t have one. I plan to contact some of the people I met at the event and take some lessons and clinics with Dahlia. I think the most important good thing that came from this weekend away was that I got my pony out there and by doing this I feel that I promoted the Morgan horse.
************************************************************************************************************* Clearwater Morgans – Farm News
Duke and I will be doing our annual demonstration and Burns Nursing Home in Russellville, Alabama on May 13th, 2008. Duke always is a big hit there and the residents love to pet him and talk to him when the demonstration is over. If anyone would like Duke and me to come to a nursing home, school, birthday party, or other function, please let me know at least 2 weeks in advance. I don't charge a regular fee, but I do ask that I be reimbursed for my fuel since fuel prices have gone up so much lately. I ask for .75 per mile. Thanks! Patsey Pennington and Duke Clearwater Stables Russellville, Alabama 256-332-5374
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Morgans for Sale
Scatoaks Promeso de Oro, shown above, foaled 10/06. Willie is quite a character, as you can see! He surprised Margie by climbing this pile of topsoil and helping himself to the spring grass. Please contact Margie scatoaks@bellsouth.net ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Venturous Titan, (Venturous Colonel x Venturous Amanda) chestnut colt, f. 8/4/06 256-482-3953 alippitt@hiwaay.net _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brown colt (Integrity’s Syndigo x Antique Amanda Kate) 5/17/06, $2000 - Valamar Great Expectations, bay colt (Integrity’s Syndigo x Wachuset Bell Bird) Full Lippitt, 5/16/06, $3500 - Valamar Whispered Memory, brown colt (Randallane Dayspring x Valamar Alaina), 4/1/06, $2500 Valamarfarms@earthlink.net _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Silverstone Mountain Ash - 2004 dapple gray stud colt. Mountain Ash drives and is now in saddle training. He has settled his first mare and we are expecting this foal in early 2008. Silverstone Silver Cloud - 2006 graying stud colt by CW's Silver Ash and out of FCF Carissima. Cloudy is an up headed smart colt with show horse ways. Silverstone Florida Bay - 2007 dark bay filly out of Dogwood Mtn Copa Command. This is a big well made mare, she has super movement and a good head on her shoulders. BLKorchid Tiger Lily - 1995 solid bay mare. (PJM Nobileer X Rosewood Granmistres) Lily has given us a very nice graying filly. Lily sells open or with a breeding to our senior stallion. Dogwood Mtn Copa Command 2001 bay mare. (Final Command X VVM Copa Girl) Mandy has given us two bay fillies, both have been exceptional. She puts size on her foals.
Contact : Anne @ 423-533-2688 or dogwoodmorgans@hotmail.com
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Handy Tips – by Pat Cargile Got a nasty oozing cut on your horse? Maybe the vet put a drain tube in… For a neat clean-up, use Pam cooking spray to spray under the wound where the sticky drainage globs up on the hair - you’ll find a simple wipe-up is all that is needed. Apply Pam to clean dry hair where the drainage is expected to land.
Tip #2 – Keep sanitary napkins in your vet box. They make super bandages and padding inside the hoof. Secure them with the new product “Gorilla tape” from the Gorilla Glue Company; it lasts longer than duct tape! .............................................................................................................................
Page 3 Calendar of Events:
May 8 – 10th Dixie Cup Classic GA International Horse Park Conyers, GA http://www.thedixiecup.com/
May 30-31, 2008 Liberty Classic United Horse Show, Tri-State Exhibition Center, Cleveland, TN. Judge Gayle Lampe. Contact info Victor Stefanini, 865-681-7830, vtstefanini@yahoo.com. This show has classes for Morgans, Arabs and Saddlebreds. This is a nice facility with good stabling and a covered area.
http://morganhorse.com/ The Morgan Horse http://almorgans.com/ Our Club website
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NOT A PRETTY STORY
On Saturday, March 15, LVF Misty aborted sometime during the storms at night or early in the morning out in the pasture. When she came in to eat, Ray noticed the placenta was hanging out of her. I walked the back pasture and, of course, found the foal in the furthermost corner of the property. Buzzards had gotten to it. Most of its body was intact but I couldn't tell if it was a filly or colt. It felt like 50 - 60 lbs but by the time I got it near the barn, I thought maybe 70 lbs.
At 7:00 PM Saturday night, she still hadn't passed the placenta after two shots of Oxytocin so I called the vet. He told me to give her a shot every 10 - 15 minutes until she went into labor. After the first shot tonight, she went down and we left her. Ray went back later and gave her four more shots.
We took her to the vet on Sunday afternoon after more shots every 10 – 15 minutes and she still hadn’t passed the afterbirth. The vet gave her more shots of Oxytocin. Finally, he decided he’d better check her because she still hadn’t expelled the afterbirth. It took a bit of time but he pulled another foal out. It was a dead filly. I have now lost count of how many shots of Oxytocin she got -- it was around 20 or more. The afterbirth was still retained so she got more Oxytocin, Bute, Banamine, Penicillin and infused her 3 times. He was concerned about preventing laminitis and founder.
She finally passed the afterbirth on Monday around noon and on Tuesday, she came back home.
The Vet explained that the problem was her uterus was contracting in two directions – the front was pushing out and the back part was pushing toward the foal -- and that is why she couldn’t have the second foal. Neither foal had any hair. The second one was not only smaller but was not as developed as the first one. It will forever be a mystery as to whether they were twins or conceived at two different times.
Misty was due in May. She was ultrasounded in July 2007 and had been pasture bred by Blaze (Open Road Blaze of Glory) from April to July. We never saw them breed but I thought she had odd behavior because she would follow him around a lot. I thought she hadn’t settled until the ultrasound which didn’t show twins.
Misty is doing fine but we won’t try to breed her until next year and will find out then if any damage was done.
Carol Potts Bold Venture Farm ..........................................................................................
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