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| Top Row, L-R: Blaze, Stripe, Stripe (or thin blaze) and snip, Irregular blaze, Interrupted stripe, bald face.
Bottom row, L-R: Faint star, Star, Star and strip, irregular star, snip, lip marking |
Leg markings. Top row, L-R: Stocking, Sock or Boot, Fetlock or Sock.
Bottom row, L-R: Pastern, Coronet, Partial Pastern |
Name: Apache
Color & Markings: Liver sorrel gelding with brown spot on L butt, solid face
Horse Age: 1988
Horse Size: Small
Rider Size: Small/Medium (not counting Dan)
Rider Skill: Wrangler/Advanced only.
Bit: Low port
Watch for: Fast & headstrong. Loves to run. Loves to lead – hates to follow. Watch nutrition/weight!
Comments: Dan’s horse.
2011 Apache has started showing his age this year – Dan will probably NOT ride him, as Dan is getting very fat.
4/22/12 Apache has sand colic. We are feeding him enormous amounts of horse psylium AND metamucil (orange flavored – yummy) twice daily, and he is pooping sand – yipee! But he is also loosing weight and looks terrible. If we can get him through this crisis, he may be retired. Starting tonight we will be graining/psyllium every day, and putting him out on pasture with the two Arabs every night.
5/1/12 Apache is officially retired. Still pooping some sand with enormous amounts of psylium. Not yet shedding out at all, which makes us think of Cushings.
5/20 – The crisis is over. Ol’ Apache is now fat and happy again. And shedding out like normal.
Last summer (2011) we were not as diligent about ALL horses getting psylium the first five days of each month. This year we will be back to being VERY diligent that this gets done properly!
6/4 – Apache is asking to work – fat and sassy. So maybe we should change his status to “semi-retired.
Name: Cherokee
Color & Markings: Tan Apoloosa (no tail, no mane, ugly! sweet!), lots of brands
Horse Age: 1994
Horse Size: Medium
Rider Size: Medium
Rider Skill: Spirited Beginner — Adult all-around and larger kids. Very good at reading his rider and acting appropriately.
Bit: Low port
Watch for: This animal is a sweetheart. Walks fast! Likes to run.
Comments: Cherokee is our first “Boarder.” He belongs to Brian and Merrily and Shane. When they here, they get “first dibs” on him.
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Cimmaron on the left, with her little brother Montee on the right.
Name: Cimmarron
Color & Markings: Dark Bay, strip. Note R rear sock.
Horse Age: 2004
Horse Size: Clydesdale- QH cross Big girl!
Rider Size: Big
Rider Skill: Beginner or Intermediate – still occasionally spooks (minor) on the trail if away from other horses.
Bit: draft (6″ wide) tom thumb with short shanks
Watch for: VERY buddy sour – calm when in the middle of the group, anxious when alone. Will walk as fast or slowly as asked.
Comments: Can be a bully in the corral with other mares.
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Name: Comanche
Color & Markings: Orange Buckskin Apaloosa gelding – bugeed out eyes – so ugly he’s cute
Horse Age: 1992
Horse Size: medium
Rider Size: medium
Rider Skill: beginner
Bit: Grazing Curb (Low Port)
Watch for: Can be a fast walker – loves to follow but will lead when asked. Can be stubborn.
Comments: Watch weight closely
Name: Creed
Color & Markings: Dunn gelding
Horse Age: 1986 (2010 – Creed is starting to show his age this year.)
Horse Size: Medium
Rider Size: Small/Medium — sway back
Rider Skill: Beginner – slow walker. Now a children’s horse
Bit: Low port
Watch for: Formerly alpha, now #3 or #4 in pecking order. When on trail, must be first, second, or last or tantrums.
Comments: Keep reins loose.
Watch weight carefully. Has skin tumors on ears that must have Tea Tree Oil applied every day to control growth.
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Name: Debbie
Color & Markings: Sorrel, star, solid feet, QH mare
Horse Age: 2000
Horse Size: medium/large QH
Rider Size: Medium – large (<230#)
Rider Skill: Beginner & Kids
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for: Can drop weight quickly. Slow to medium walker – leads well.
Comments: Sweet as sugar, but can have an attitude. very low in pecking order, but defends herself well.
Has chronic rain rot on flat of back. Must have anti-fungal spray applied daily.
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Name: Fancy
Color & Markings: Sorrel QH, fancy flame-like strip
Horse Age: 1991
Horse Size: Medium
Rider Size: Small to medium adults, kids
Rider Skill: Kids and beginners
Bit: Tom thumb
Comments: This is another horse that will benefit from lots of work this spring – but watch weight.
Ugly, ugly but sweet little kids dude ranch horse
Name: Flip
Color & Markings: Extremely ugly but loveable little guy. Bay roan Appy/POA gelding
Flip - the little dude ranch horse
Horse Age: Born 1993
Horse Size: 13H2″
Rider Size: Small
Rider Skill: Kids
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for: weight
Comments: We have not worked this guy at all as we wanted to get some more weight on him, and we are all too tall (and fat). We will know more after some of our “little staff” work with him. Very sweet guy on the ground.
Long term lease 3/12
Name: Foxy
Color & Markings: Chestnut mare, rear socks Looks a bit like Skip with BH stockings (but has different plumbing).
Horse Age: 1996
Horse Size: Medium
Rider Size: Medium
Rider Skill: Intermediate
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for: Can be a bitch. A real Nancy Pelosi – will test and bite/kick other horses in her climb to the top. keep in front or back (first or last) till she calms down with work. Slow to medium walker – will not fall too far behind – she’ll trot to catch up on her own.
Comments: Spoiled brat! Very willing, and although a bit hesitant about all of the dragons and misc. monsters on the trail, she never argues or acts out in any way. Except in early spring.
Freckles - A spring dude ranch project
Name: Freckles
Color & Markings: Flea bitten rose-gray Arab geld.
Snip & BH socks)
Horse Age: Born 1994
Let's get Freckles fat!
Horse Size: 13H1″
Rider Size: Small/ kid
Rider Skill: ?
Bit:
Watch for:
Comments: Purchased 4/12
This little guy is pretty much a rescue – extremely skinny! (score=2)
He is fed grain/oil, alfalfa, and is on pasture all day and night with his girlfriend Oakley.
Very social, walks up to us when in pasture for a scratch or a cookie
We think he will be an awesome little kids horse when Justin gets him fat.
5/1 Justin is working his magic, and in just two week, this guy is looking acceptable. Not good, but huge improvement! score=4 (Same for Soda Pop and Oakley)
6/4 - nice round tummy, no ribs, but withers and hips still need rounding out
5/20 I will get new picts up soon. This guy is now a 5+ Yipee! He is going into the “mail” corral with the other boys and girls.
5/31. Dropping a bit of weight again, down to a 5. Back out to the pasture and will have teeth checked next week.
6/3 Little boys teeth were predictably a mess, but cleaned up nicely. He is gaining back his “butterball look” but he and Soda Pop will live in the Special Feeder corral with Grandpa and the other geezers for a while.
Name: Gauge
Color & Markings: Blaze, no socks, left eye 1/2 blue. Gelding
Horse Age: 1994
Horse Size: Medium large
Rider Size: Medium to large
Rider Skill: Beginner & big (or fat) kids
Bit: O ring snaffle
Watch for: Can be fast. Likes to be in the front. Not good at end of the line!
Comments: Gentle giant
Purchased 3/08.
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Name: Grandpa
6/4/12
Color & markings: Gray
Age: 1990
Horse Size: Large
Rider size:
Rider Skills: Little kids
6/4/12 Mr. Mustache!
Bit: O Ring (broken snaffle)
Watch For: Weight
6/4/12Grandpa
Comments: Grandpa is showing his age – is a fantastic children’s horse. Getting very, very old.
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Guss -- an old dude ranch horse?
Name: Guss
Color & Markings: QH sorrel geld, Scar R shoulder, “MJ” Freeze brand R hip, Star/strip/snip, LH partial coronet
Guss and Soda Pop
Horse Age: Born 2004
Horse Size: Large QH
Rider Size: large
Rider Skill: Beginner
Bit: tom thumb
Watch for: When he arrived his feet looked awful! Matt the farrier is doing his magic.
Comments:We’ve only ridden him a couple of times. So far he is complete push-button, glide-ride babysitter. He leads, he follows.
Purchased 4/12
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6/4/12 Dude Ranch Jack
Name: Jack
Color & Markings:
Horse Age: Born 1993
Horse Size: Large QH
6/4/12 Jack
Rider Size: large
Rider Skill: Adult all around
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for: Cinchy, go too fast and he will bite you. Jack is not a terribly affectionate horse – “love” on him and hug/kiss him will get you bitten. But he is a hard worker who never argues.
Comments: Cross-fires when loping.
Name: Mocha
Mocha
Markings: Brown QH mare
Age: 1986
Horse Size: Medium
Rider Size: Medium
Rider Skill: Wrangler only
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for:
Comments: Appears much older. Cushings. Watch weight. This girl may be old, and she may be falling a part, but boy does she love to run!
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Big sister Cimmaron has the blaze, and little brother Montee has the star/snip.
Name: Montee
Color & Markings: dark Bay, star & snip, rear socks and BIG feathers
Horse Age: 2005
Horse Size: Clydesdale/QH
Rider Size: large
Rider Skill: Intermediate until he gets more experience
Bit: O ring snaffle
Watch for: Loves to work – young and energetic! Mouthy. Gets very excited when moving out of walk to trot!!! Hard to calm him back down… getting better with experience. can’t walk straight! has to see and smell everything! Immature, really good guy.
Comments:
Pretty little girl Oakley
Name: Oakley
Color & Markings: Bay Arab mare RR sock & 3 stockings, star/strip/snip
Horse Age: Born 1994
Oakley may be a great kids horse when we get some fat on her
Horse Size: 14H3″ Itty Bitty small
Rider Size: Kids we hope
Rider Skill:
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for:
Comments: Purchased 3/12
Rescue – very, very, very skinny (score = 2). On grain/oil, alfalfa and open pasture 24/7. Hangs out with her boyfriend Freckles. Very social, and approached humans when in pasture.
We hope she will be a children’s horse.
6/5/12 - Oakley's first week with kids - she is a happy horse!
5/1 Justin is working his magic, and in just two week, this little lady is looking acceptable. Not good, but huge improvement! score=3.5
(Same for Freckles and Oakley)
5/20 I will get new picts up soon. This guy is now a 5+ Yipee! He is going into the “mail” corral with the other boys and girls.
5/31. Dropping a bit of weight again, down to a 5. Back out to the pasture and will have teeth checked next week.
6/3 – Oakley is holding her weight at a 5. Her teeth are a mess as well – lots and lots of sharp points – now all gone.
6/5 Gettin’ fat! yipee!
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Name: Oreo
Color & Markings: Bay, short, big belly (Paso/QH cross)
Horse Age: 1991
Horse Size: Small
Rider Size: Small to itty bitty tiny
Rider Skill: Kids or small adults
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for: Old on-side cinch sore behind elbow. Watch carefully EVERY time you cinch him. Neoprene cinch only. If skin breaks down, Oreo is to go to horsepital until *fully* healed. Teach guest assigned how to check spot when cinching. (When we brought oreo home, that ulcer went all the way through the fat and muscle – you could see his ribs – the vet spent almost 2 months getting it healed.)
Comments: Can have speed. Can drop weight . very sweet little guy.
Please do NOT put any ointments, salves or gunk on this scar – tell Dan if it gets red or angry looking.
Name: Pepper
Color & Markings: Gray mare
Horse Age:1987
Horse Size: Medium Actually she is pretty big, but has had sensitive withers.
Rider Size: Smaller & kids
Rider Skill: beginner, older kid
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for: Saddle fit — had abcess in withers a few years ago — took almost 7 months to heal!
Comments: Willful — likes to eat grass on trail.
Sweet, mellow & responsive. Pepper is a favorite of many guests and staff – she is becoming an old lady and we need to give her sufficient rest breaks. Staff NOT to ride her – save her for guests.
Note this is an old picture, and Pepper is becoming an old horse – children preferred
Note: What is wrong with this picture??? (Hint: high and short)
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Name: Rose Blossom
Color & Markings: Sorrel with three stockings (none on L front), blaze
Horse Age: Born 2/22/08
6/5/12 Rose is a big (little) girl now!
Horse Size: Pony
Rider Size: small adults
Rider Skill: Wrangler and advanced riders: she is still very young and small
Bit: full face
Watch for: Spoiled brat!
Comments: Purchased 3/08 (age 2 weeks).
Annie is Dani’s “love-child.” Two peas in a pod! Being as everyone else is too big fer her looks like a match made in heaven.
Name: Rusty
Color & Markings: Sorrel Grade with Mustang blood
Horse Age: 2004
Horse Size: Small/medium
Rider Size: Small/medium
Rider Skill: Wrangler & advanced riders (may be ready for intermediate rider – we’ll see)
Bit: Full cheek
Watch for: Very intelligent – he likes to open gates, untie knots, etc.
Comments: Rescue – very wild when he arrived. Dan started leading on him in 2010.
2012 – Now any smaller wrangler can lead with him – he’s turned into a cutie.
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Name: Skip
Color & Markings: Sorrel
Horse Age: 1995
Horse Size: Larger QH
Rider Size: Moderately larger
Rider Skill:Any – will take good care of beginners, but delightfully responsive with advanced riders as well.
Bit: tom thumb
Watch for:
Comments: Good ol’ boy. Eager to please. Fast walker, but easily controlled.
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Name: Smoke
Color & markings: Old gray gelding
Age: 1982
Horse Size: Medium
6/4/12 Grandpa and Smoke (The geezers...)
Rider Size: Medium
Rider Skill: Wrangler only
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for: Watch weight
Comments: This horse belongs to our neighbor Pastor Frank.
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Name: Soda Pop
Color & Markings: Sorrel Paint mare, brown mane, blaze, BF & RH legs white, LH sock
Horse Age: Born 1992
Horse Size: 15H2″
Rider Size: Moderately larger
Rider Skill: Advanced
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for:
Comments: Purchased 4/12.
5/1 Justin is working his magic, and in just two week, this guy is looking acceptable. Not good, but huge improvement! score=4
(Same for Freckles and Oakley)
5/20 I will get new picts up soon. This lady is now a 5+ Yipee! She is going into the “mail” corral with the other boys and girls.
Also, note that Soda Pop is very head shy — someone in the past smacked this horse! She is literally afraid to take a cookie from your hand. Dan is starting therapy with her, and will pass her onto another wrangler for more work – this explains why she “acts out” when she’s tied to the rail and her other bad ground manners!
5/31. Dropping a bit of weight again, down to a 5. Back out to the pasture and will have teeth checked next week..
6/3 Teeth done. Soda Pop is not afraid of women, just men. We need to have men handle her as often as possible. Maybe one of the interns to give TLC every day? We need to discuss her at staff meeting, as I think she is salvageable but not safe for beginners or guests until we help her though this.
6/5/12 Sunny Blue Eyes
Name: Sunny Blue Eyes
Age: 2004
Horse Size: Medium
Rider Size: Medium
6/5/12 - Sunny Blue Eyes
Rider Skill: Was adult all around. Now wrangler only until we work out some “issues”
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for:
Comments:
Name: Stevie
Age: 2000
Horse Size:
Rider Size:
Rider Skill: Adult all around
Bit: Tom Thumb
Watch for:
Comments: Finished last season with a lot of tripping. Matt he farrier to examine.
May 15 2012 – Matt has put Stevie in special shoes to fix her heels- see barn book for details.
Name: Trigger
Color & Markings: Bay, brand on on-side shoulder
Horse Age: 1985
Horse Size: Tall & skinny
Rider Size: Medium
Rider Skill: Advanced beginner or intermediate who is not afraid of speed.
Bit: Low port
Watch for: Very competitive. Fast. Good brakes. Will test the timid. Loves to race.
Comments: This animal has speed and has taken off with his rider!.
6/5/12 Whisper
Name: Whisper
Color & Markings: Bay paint mare. White mane. Star/strip/snip, RF & LH stockings, RH pastern
Horse Age: Born 1997
Whisper has a white mane
Horse Size: 15H
Rider Size: Medium
Rider Skill: Intermediate
Bit: Padded hack
Watch for: Cinch carefully. Does NOT like to cross water
Comments: Long term lease.
Name: Calamity Jane
Color & Markings: BLM Wild burro (Arizona desert herd)
Horse Age: 1999
Size: Tiny
Rider Size: Itty bitty kids – note: staff (NOT parents) to hold lead rope while children in saddle. Do NOT trust parents to lead!!!!
Rider Skill: N/A
Bit: None. halter led only.
Watch for: Overfeeding! Wild burros die of founder and heart attacks – absolutely NO snacks!.
Comments: Ellen adopted Calamity Jane a couple of years ago, and is in the process of gentling her. If she continues to progress at her current rate of gentling,
she will be ready for children’s riding sometime in 2055 (maybe…).
Foundered in Jan 2009 – do NOT allow unrestricted feeding!
This animal has done nothing in three or four years. She needs training!
Name: Little Joe
Color & Markings: Gray cross dunn with zebra stipes on legs and hugs roll of fat on neck!
Horse Age: 1996
Horse Size: Bigger than Calamity Jane and smaller than everybody else.
Rider Size: Itty bitty kids – note: staff (NOT parents) to hold lead rope while children in saddle. Do NOT trust parents to lead!!!!
Rider Skill:
Bit: None. halter led only.
Watch for: Overfeeding! Wild burros die of founder and heart attacks – absolutely NO snacks!.
Comments: Calm and sweet. Never argues.
Has done nothing in 3 or 4 years. We need to train him!
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| Quick Guide |  (5/1/12) : |
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| Name | Birth Year | Gender | Breed/Type | Color | Face/Mane | Feet | Other | |
| Apache | 1988 | G | QH | Brown
Dark brown patch on butt |
Litle snip | Retired Wrangler Only Watch Weight |
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| Cherokee | 1994 | G | Appi | Tan | |
None | “471″ Branded on L shoulder | |
| Cimarron | 2004 | M | QH/Clydesdale | Dark Bay | Strip, blaze | RR sock (Cimarron is right) | Big girl | |
| Comanche | ? | G | Appi | Orange Buckskin | |
LR sock | Mohawk | |
| Creed | 1986 | G | QH | Line Back Dunn | Strip | None | Swayback Medicate Ears daily! Watch weight |
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| Debbie | 2000 | M | QH | Sorrel | Small star | none | Anti-fungal to back daily | |
| Fancy | 1991 | G | QH | Sorrel | Irregular strip (flame) | No socks | ||
| Flip | 1993 | G | POA | Roan Appy | ||||
| Foxy | 1991 | M | QH | Sorrel | Blaze | RF coronette, rear stockings | |
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| Freckles | 1994 | G | Arab | Flea Bitten Rose Gray | Snip | BH socks | Rescue – watch weight | |
| Gauge | 1994 | G | QH | Sorrel | Blaze, L eye half blue. Mark on nose. | None | Stocky | |
| Grandpa | 1990? Maybe 1980 | G | Draft/QH | Gray | Old! Watch weight | |||
| Guss | 2004 | G | QH | Sorrel | Star/Strip/Snip | LH partial coronet | Nasty scar L shoulder “MJ:” brand R hip | |
| Jack | 1993 | G | QH | Brown | ||||
| Mocha | 1986 | M | QH | Brn | ||||
| Montee | 2005 | G | QH/Clydesdale | Dark Bay | Star & Snip | Rear socks, BIGfeathers! | cimarron’s little brother – Big boy! | |
| Oakley | 1994 | M | Arab | Bay | Star/Strip/Snip | RR sock, 3 stockings | Watch weight | |
| Oreo | 1991 | G | QH/Passo | Bay | Cresent moon star, snip | None | Old cinch sore under left buckle – examine carefullly EVERY ride! Pad and dress as needed. Special cinch! | |
| Pepper | 1987 | M | QH | Gray | Slender face | |
Showing age – watch weight | |
| Rose Blossom | 2008 | M | Filly | Sorrel | Piebald face | RF sock, both rear stockings |  |
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| Rusty | 2004 | G | QH/Mustang | Sorrel | Strip | |
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| Skip | 1995 | G | Big QH | Sorrel | Large Star & Broad strip | Rear stockings | ||
| Smoke | 1982 | G | QH | Gray | |
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| Soda Pop | 1992 | M | Paint | Brown Mane | Blaze | BF & RH Legs, LH sock | ||
| Sunny Blue Eyes | M | QH | Sorrel | Blue eyes! | ||||
| Stevie | 1997 | M | QH | Sorrel | Long luxorious mane across face | |||
| Trigger | 20+ | G | QH/TB | Bay | |
RR sock (only marking) | Brand on L shoulder | |
| Whisper | 1997 | M | Bay Paint | White mane | Star/Strip/Snip | RF & LH stockings RH pastern | ||
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| Calamity Jane | 1999 | Jenny | Donkey | Gray | |
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| Little Joe | 1993 | Jack | Donkey | Gray | |
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| Creed | Cherokee | Jack | Soda Pop | Rusty | Apache retired | ||
| Deb | Cimarron | Montee | Smoke | ||||
| Freckles | Comanche | Sunny Blue Eyes | Rose | ||||
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| Size Guide: | Determine weight and skill together – a heavy athlete with good balance weighs less than a moderate sized couch potato! If you are “loading up” a horse, CHECK SADDLE FIT FREQUENTLY! and LISTEN TO THE HORSE!!! (Updated 5/1/12) | |||||||
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