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© March 2006; a red roan Hancock curly filly, and Big Red, a rugged Warrior ranch gelding.
| For Sale:
We occasionally have stockhorse-type Curly Horses for sale, please
inquire... they will be excellent candidates to represent the best
the Curly "breed" has to offer; enough natural friendliness
& intelligence for anyone to love & enjoy; enough size and
smooth comfort in their trot for most any rider; enough quality &
beauty, with correct conformation to compare alongside any breed of
horse; and enough bone, foot, thickness, athletic ability & cow
sense to work a lifetime on any ranch. Their temperaments will be
friendly, they are well handled, feet trimmed, halter-broke &
on excellent health programs. When you get to know me, you find out I frown on Curly to Curly breedings. That is because too many (25%) of them produce undesirable extreme Curly Horses. Also I am in the middle of ranch country, where tough cowy horses are expected. So frankly I want a hypoallergenic Curly Horse with a full mane and tail that kicks Quarter Horse butt and makes typical ranch horse owners shocked and awed. Big talk, yes, but I have been blessed with individual Quarter Horses that other AQHA breeding programs would love to have, and I use them with my absolute top quality western type Curly Horses. The few foals I produce are hard to beat, if you want a big, colorful, darn good looking, hypoallergenic ranch horse, not to mention, a good friend and partner. |
one of our blue roan curly geldings performing
and captured by the Billings Gazette newspaper
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year, 2010, I don't really have anything offered for sale.
My 2 mares I leased to Tracy Robinson, where she bred them to Rush
River Slash, has run its course. She took awesome care of the girls,
but now has what she wants from me, so I will bring my mares home
and enjoy them myself for a while. I was considering offering *Minne
Xpresso for sale, but being a rare own daughter of *Bad Warrior, I
prefer to hold on to her, and be able to cross her later with exciting
AQHA stallions, or the last son of Teddy... anyway, I do have 3 awfully
nice Warrior curly mares, and if I lose pasture, I may have to offer
them, but if I can hold on to my leased grass on the Rez, I will hang
on to them. The plan this year is to ride these mares and enjoy them
and show off what they can do. The horse market is pretty lousy to
be breeding them. However, the complication is, the mares might only
have pasture available WITH a stallion, and if so, it will be Randy
Real Bird's grass, running with his big blue roan stallion that is
half Hancock and half Race Bar bred. The Real Bird family is known
as the best horsemen of the Crow nation. Randy's stud is a big gorgeous
athletic horse, so if the Curly mares ARE exposed this year, out of
necessity, it should produce darn nice curly foals. I have mixed feelings
about it of course, when my choices might come down to selling the
mares, or keeping them and having to breed them in a down market like
this. But usually we don't dread breeding a few Curly Horses of the
quality that we don't mind keeping for ourselves. Our selling philosophy... We will tell you the truth. What we have or don't have, what a horse for sale has to offer and what it doesn't have; we will let you know. Letting you know is our obligation to you, to ourselves, our horses, and to the horse industry. Buying your first Curly Horse? Remember that Curly Horses are horses. Each have their own personality, degree of natural gentleness, and amount of handling. Any horse can misbehave or get dangerous when handled incorrectly. And any human can handle a horse incorrectly at any given time; and the less knowledgeable they are, the more frequently that happens. Also, more intelligent horses (like Curlies) are often quicker to interpret incorrect handling as abuse, and resist. Resistance creates dangerous situations, especially for beginners. While a trained Curly Horse can make the best beginner's horse, an untrained Curly Horse may prove to be the opposite. Even Curly Horses with a genetically calm and reasonable temperament can still disappoint (or even hurt) someone when mistakes are made. (Read more on my Horsemanship page.) Although Curly Horses as a breed truly DO have a calmer, more thoughtful and intelligent temperament than other horse breeds in general, I have seen many individual Curly Horses that do not have that special quiet and kind "Curly" disposition, displaying a temperament no different than other skittish horses or breeds. These horses will typically be the first ones to be culled (hence they are sold) by discriminating breeders that select for temperament. Possibly even worse are the breeders who do not know the difference, and do not know to select & cull mercilessly for temperament... So keep these facts in mind when considering purchasing a Curly Horse, and educate yourself about horse handling before buying your first one. As for the human part of the equation, if you wonder if you could benefit from a good (that is the key) horse trainer, chances are, you could. Also take enought time to get references on potential breeders and sellers in the industy; the Curly Horse world is a small world, so do your research. (Read more on my sales information page.) |
Please note,
prices and offerings are subject to change (and often do) as our situation
evolves.
Thanks for
looking.
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Crow Country Curly Horses ranging on Sharpshooter Ridge,
near Custer's Last Stand (Little Bighorn Battlefield)
Curly
Horses in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
| This scan (by Bunny Reveglia) is taken from an illustration from one of the books in the Time Life western series - it is the picture that is cited in Myth & Mystery; and it was actually drawn by Red Horse, not Red Cloud as stated in Myth & Mystery. It is a drawing of a Lakota warrior riding off from the Little Big Horn battle on his Curly war horse leading the Army's captured horses. Read more about the history of the Warrior bloodline here. |
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