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ride a sorrel, stocking
legged, blaze faced gelding.
We ride many miles in the
open country around our
place in Northeastern
Colorado. This horse loves
to lope and play, and he
always carries me safely
home. His conformation
posses just about every
quality that makes the
Wiescamp horses what they
are; the head, eye and
jowls, the neck and throat
latch, the width, depth, and
strength. Muscle and hip,
correctness, profile and
beauty. He is a comfortable
14-3 (saddles are heavy, and
my back and knees can use
some help.....). He is sweet
and silly, willing and wise. |
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I bought this gelding from
Bev and Jerry McCormick,
they had him consigned to
the Skipper W section of the
Triangle sale in October two
years ago. He was the very
first colt they raised and
they had given this horse a
wonderful start.
I
show him a lot in open and
FQHR shows, where he is
undefeated at halter. There
is a light, a charisma,
about this horse, he never
goes unnoticed. He has won
me a big pile of purple
ribbons (I never show him in
AQHA shows, he is
14-3......). But it is not
only his conformation and
character that makes him
special to me. Let me try to
tell you the story.
John
and I got married in January
1976. It was cold, and we
were poor, so our honeymoon
consisted of spending a day
at the Denver Stock Show,
watching the quarter horse
halter classes. That year, Skip
N Go was grand Champion
Stallion. Margaret Hammond
showed him, I'll never
forget it. He overwhelmed
them all (in those days
there were easily 20-30
horses in each class!).
A
few years later, we visited
Alamosa. Hank was busy and
rather grumpy, told us to
look around on our own. We
spent hours going over every
horse in every pen, it was
an amazing experience. That
was the time Skips
Chant and Skip's
Barber got loose and
went thundering down the
alleys together. Hank to
break them up with a whip
(true story. Barber was the
better horse...). We saw Skipper's
King in the barn, he was
very old, and Hank showed us
Skip
N Honor. All those
ribbons in the rafters above
our heads....
Still
a few years later, back at
the Stock Show, we saw Spanish
Array in the barns, and
had a long talk with
Margaret. She told us about
picking him up out of one of
the pens in the fall, and
all she did to get him in
show shape going into the
Colorado winter. He glowed.
He stood Grand, and later
that year he was World
Champion.
Skipper's
King, Skip's
Barber, Skip
N Go, Spanish
Array. Those were the
best Wiescamp stallions I
got to see, maybe the best
there were. My little
gelding is sired by Spanish
Array who is by Skip's
Barber and out of a
Skipper's King grand
daughter. His mother is by Skip
N Honor by Skip
N Go. I see them, every
time I look at my dear
Missle.
Annika
Hayes
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