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| Heather Bell and Dancer |
| DDR Arabians is looking forward to the coming few years. We have big plans for both farm and the horses here. We continue to rebuild barns and update fences, pens and working areas... a process that never ends. We have put up three new barns in the last year and have plans for at least two more. We will be posting pictures when the weather dries out. We are now starting to evaluate the horses young and old alike and looking toward their futures. Like all things living, we have a wide range of temperments and abilities within our herd. With human health issues here we are not able to train the horses at home, so with the needs of each horse in mind we have chosen the best trainers to fit the needs of each horse. |
| We have been blessed in the 2007 year with two very special and much awaited babies. The first foal is a purebred Egyptian sired and high percentage Crabbet bred loud rabicino and minimal sabino liver chestnut colt we have named Newt. This boy at 4 months old is showing potential to work cattle or cut. He is quick and very agile on his feet. He loves to travel and thinks he is supposed to be in the trailer if it pulls out of the yard. He carries a lot of roaning on both flanks and sides with two big spots on the inside of each inner thigh. It is looking like he is going to have belly white as well but we are not sure the extent of it yet. We would love to be able to double register him pinto. The other foal is a high percentage Crabbet bred chestnut and white pinto 3/4 Arab filly we have named Baby. Baby, is a nice filly with lots of eye catching color and she is our halter prospect. We can only guess at this point in their lives what they will excell at and enjoy but for now we are looking for them to both be working cow horses or to cut. So, the trainer has already chosen and when their knees close they will both be going into training to see what they will do. We would love to see them have long and fruitful show careers as well as being trail horses and pleasure mounts. |
| We also want to take a moment and send heartfelt and sincere Thank You's to a very special breeder, friend and mentor. We at DDR Arabians want to say Thank You to Claudia Provin of Provin's Promises of Dodd City, Texas. We have been blessed and lucky to have been given a chance to lease the purebred double Lawmoss granddaughter Lille. Lille is a beautiful bay mare and very typical horse of Ms Claudias breeding. She is very sweet and loving and learns quickly and easily. She has nice size, a beautiful head with a huge dark eye and is very in your pocke Life to Lille is a game and she loves to play. Lille is one of several of our horses that will be going over the next few months to be put under saddle. We look for Lille to be a very good trail horse and when she returns home from the trainer she will begin trail riding as one of our pleasure horses for the remainder of her stay here at DDR Arabians. |
| During our first visit to Ms Claudia's, she took us out into the pasture to see her stallions. In this meadow are five or six bay stallions of varying ages, each wanting to be talked to and petted. Turning around to see each of them we see a big, stunning, chestnut in the bunch, and it was love at first sight. Promise L Tasik (Lawmoss x Tambourina by Javelin) is a big boned yet refined sabino producing stallion with very free movement and excellent temperment. Never dreaming there would be a chance of having Sikr, who is tested SCIDS clear, 100% CMK, 92% Kellog and Early American Foundation and we were thrilled beyond words when Ms. Claudia gave us the opportunity to lease this boy. Sikr will be siring 5 foals for us in 2009, 2 pintos, 1 palomino and two chestnut or bays. We have had a lot of interest in Sikr while he has been with us and we look forward to standing him to the public next year at private treaty. Sikr is our gentle giant, he is loving and eager to please and we look forward to watching him grow and progress. We will be sending Sikr to a trainer that will get him going under saddle then we along with the trainer and Ms Claudia will evaluate him and decide if he will show working cow/cutting, western pleasure, costume, pleasure driving and sport horse in hand or will he come home and be a pleaure horse. Ms Claudia, Thank You for allowing us the opportunity to have and trusting us with this special stallion that has become the light of Lisa's heart. |
| Last, but not least Ms Claudia, Doug wants to Thank you for allowing us to purchase the Promise L Tasik son Promise Tadiano, who is a double Lamoss grandson. Tadiano is a beautiful chestnut sabino by Promise L Tasik x FL Lady Diana by Lamoss with a beautiful face and blaze, huge dark eyes and small ears, jagged chrome all the way around and belly white that starts between his front legs and runs all the way to his tail. He is growing daily and getting tall like his sire. Tadiano is the first at the gate when people come out and the last to leave...heaven forbid he miss being spoken too or petted. Tadiano will be heading to the trainer in late 2009 or early 2010 depending on when his knees close. He and our Pintabian filly will go at the same general time. Our plan for both these babies is working cow horse or cutting and pleasure. THANK YOU from all of us at DDR Arabians |
| Doug, Deb and Lisa want to Congratulate our partner Frank Earl on the purchase of his two new fillies at the Addis Arabian Auction in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma August 7 - 9, 2008. Frank's first purchase is TR Natashaa a beautiful Sweepstakes nominated chestnut straight 1/2 Arab 2 year old. Her sire is SJ Mikhail+++//, her dam is a AQHA mare TR Sittin Pretty by the AQHA stallion Radical Rodder. With this girls breeding she will be heading to training for working cow/cutting, and western please and we will see from there what she will do. His second purchase is a 3 year old flashy chestnut, Sweepstakes nominated filly EF Golly Miss Mollie a daughter of Fire an Ice out of a NSH mare named Marigolde by Alda Baskin. Mollie has been shown in halter as a yearling up in the New York area. She has had a years professional training under saddle. We believe Tashaa will be competing in cow classes and western pleasure and Mollie will be competing in western and hunter pleasure and sport horse in hand and possibly halter. Both of the girls are scheduled to leave for the trainers in November after our trainers return from Nationals. Best of luck to you Frank, we look forward to seeing what these beautiful and special girls will do for you. |
| This will be a busy year for us but we are looking forward to it. We will have three horses in training for working cow horse/cutting, one hunter/western pleasure show, and six more that will be sent to trainers to be put under saddle. |