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Mares and Foals |
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Stoner Ridge
Farm has outstanding mares with excellent bloodlines from
which to choose your foals and yearlings. Many of our mares
have outstanding show records or have been phenomenal trail
horses. Our mares have well-know sires such as Captain Bill,
Tom Cat, French's Glider, Dock, Pete, Nickolei and Choco
Dock.
It has always
been our philosophy that superior breeding programs are
built from superior mares. Therefore, it is important to
consider the breeding of your mares as well as your
stallions. Even though the mare is only responsible for 50%
of your foal's genetic make-up, they contribute the majority
of your foal's temperament. SRF foals have gentle, willing
temperaments and are guaranteed to gait.
All foals born
from our stock have an exemplary gait and are up showing it
off within a few hours after birth. Imprinting is often
unnecessary as these horses begin feeling like one of the
family soon after birth. Foals are given free range in lush
pastures with their dams for the first four or five months
of their lives. At weaning time, they are given a daily
de-wormer along with specialized feeds that provide rich
nutrients to assure strength, stamina, and good health for a
lifetime.
See our foals that are for sale on the
sales page.
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Nickolei's Sophie |
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SRF
became the owner of this pretty mare in 2008.
She has an impressive show record. She has a style and refined
grace that are all her own. We bred her to
Merry Go Blue and the resulting filly is very
impressive. Don and Nancy own the foal and have
named her Hidden Agenda. Their granddaughter,
Ella, has given her the barn name of Darby. We
can’t wait to see what she grows up to become. .
. something outstanding, we’re sure.
You won’t want to miss this
little lady in the show ring.
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Another beautiful
foal was born to Sophie on May 2nd,
2010 – a colt this time by SRF’s
Silver Sundown. He is definitely
stallion material!
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Once Chance Fancy
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As an eleven year old mare
by Trinket's Traveler, Fancy has enjoyed an
outstanding show career. Fancy is at
home performing with the Mountain Rhythm
Riders Drill Team or traveling over the
trails of Vermont, Kentucky, or Tennessee.
She left the show ring behind in 2005.
Fancy had another beautiful chocolate foal by
Grand Champion
Merry Go Blue
in 2008. He
was gaiting in the field at only one day old. We
will enjoy watching this youngster grow and
follow in the steps of his superb parents and
his big brother. She was bred back for the third
time to Merry Go Blue and had a black colt with
a whole lot of chrome. . . flashy, flashy. What
a show prospect!
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Lawson's Pepper |
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When the family first acquired Lawson's Pepper,
little did we realize what an impact she would
have on our lives. All we really wanted was a
horse for our girls to ride. Pepper soon became
one of the family. She could be ridden in the
summer, turned out to pasture in the winter, and
be saddled up again and ridden in the spring
without missing a beat. The girls could ride her
bareback with a halter and she would gait every
step. After pasture breeding to Dock, she
surprised them one misty morning with our first
foal, Dock's Dusty Pepper. What a super horse
Dusty was to work with - especially for the
newbies that the Lawson's were at that time.
Pepper has gone on to produce many outstanding
foals such as Sargent Pepper, Summer Spirit, D.
P. Tanner, Johnny Dancer (better known as J.D),
and Pepper’s Just Plain Pretty. Her influence
has led us from the one horse farm we were to
the thirty horse training facility we have now.
Pepper had a beautiful colt in 2007 by Merry Go
Blue. He is strong and athletic. He was used in
our trainer’s challenge this spring and is
currently under the care of Tim Scarberry who is
using him for his colt starting video.
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