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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
This
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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