I had mentioned that Robert and I flew to Napa valley to look and Porkchop and found Kat... Well that story continues. We left Napa Valley for Seattle Washington. We were going to look at another brood mare. This mare lived in Puyallup Washington.
We went to visit a nice family, Nancy, Greg and a ten year old KayCee (KC). They had a mare for sale because they wanted to use the proceeds to campaign (train and show) Compact CD a two year old stud colt out of Hiccup aka "Lil Dun Hickory". Dun is a color variation that manifest itself as a tan colored horse with a dorsal stripe (line down it's back). Hiccup was a "red" dun meaning she had a red stripe and a red mane and tail.
Hiccup was also a trained cutter that both Nancy and ten year old KC rode.
Well Robert took Hiccup for a spin and liked her. He did say I should stay off as she was rather "hot", hot defined as in "wound as tight as a spring", I was truly a beginning rider and chances are good I would have fallen off, or been tossed.
In any case we negotiated a bit and I thought I'd buy her too. Nancy was REALLY excited about the two year old, Compact CD and determined to show him off. He was (and is) very handsome. Well Nancy saddles him up and climbs on in the "round pen". CD took one fast run around the round pen, then EXPLODED, bucking and kicking, tossing Nancy to the ground. We found out later that she had broken her shoulder... It sure looked like it hurt... bummer.
Hiccup was shipped home to us. She had several nice babies, the first born at Table Rock was "Squirt", more on him later. Here is a photo of hiccup with squirt shortly after he was born.
Hiccup and Squirt as he sees his very first human (Susan)
Hiccup went on the have Kory, "RedMan", Lacy, Yoda and Dunny before her untimely death. I drove her from our house, one dark winter night in a full blown blizzard, to CSU where they did everything possible, but no luck... We do miss her...
I always wanted to ride hiccup, she was certainly a "well broke" cutting horse, shortly after she had Squirt she was out in a pasture and injured her hock. Then she had Kory, we went to the vet one day and the vet noticed she looked a little off, she had foundered so no one ever rode her again (some founder horses can be ridden we probably could have ridden her).
Kory was born right in our barn, Kory was the first foal we saw come into the world. I looked out the window about 8PM one night, Hiccup is pacing, laying down, standing up over and over. I thought I'd go take a look to see if she was OK, we weren't really expecting any new lifw that evening. When I got to the barn I found the two front legs sticking out about 6 inches, by time I called Susan (on the cell phone) and Susan arrived, Kory was almost all the way out, about five(5) minutes.
This story is really to set up another horse story regarding Squirt. It will be a really sad story for me, BUT I'm thinking a real happy story for someone else....
PS - While I was looking for some pictures of Squirt I found this photo, taken by Susan of me on the way to the ground. The horse happens tp be Kat, the runniing W is almost visible on her thigh...
Ouch
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