Skipper W horses. We made a phone call and found out that they were located in Ozark, Missouri, which wasn't far, so we drove down to see what they had.

As we drove up the road to Denny and Carol Willis's we knew that these horses would fit the bill. Carol showed us the horses and told us about the Skipper W legacy. They had two mares for sale they called the Susie sisters. One had already foaled and one was suppose to foal anytime. We really liked them but still had a lot of questions, Denny suggested that we take some time and go look at a few more places and then come back if we were still interested. And look we did! We traveled many miles and to a couple of different states. We also did some research on Hank Wiescamp and the horses he raised. We finally decided that the best we had seen was right here in Missouri. So we went back to the Willis's and purchased the Susie sisters. These were full sisters by Skip N Honor out of Serenade Sue, and they each had a foal by DW Skippa Assault. At that time we also purchased a yearling stud colt by Spanish High out of Skip N Spray. Denny told us this little stud colt would make a great maternal sire, and boy, was he right. Last year we had our first colt crop by DW Spanish Skiparing, and we were extremely pleased with each one.

Now we really had the itch, and it was Skipper W breeding from then on. In 1997 we ended up purchasing four mares and one stud colt from the Willis's. This included our first branded mare, Larks Essence by Super Lark out of Social Pride (a grand-daughter of Skipper's King). We bred everything to Strings Bright, a branded palomino stallion. We wanted to add a little color to our herd. It was at this point that we decided that we wanted to start a breeding program that was built around the best Skipper W horses we could find, and we thought we were well on the way.

In 1998 we cut back, and only purchased one new mare, but in 1999 we made up for it by buying three more great mares. One was Skip Be Ark, a really nice branded bay mare by Super Lark out of Skip Be Lark. We've had three nice fillies out of this mare by Strings Bright. Then probably one of my favorites, Scotch N Belle, who is another branded mare by Scottish Speed out of Skip N Ring (a half sister to Skippers Ring). She's bred to the hilt and she really produces. We've had three fine foals out of this mare as well. Last year's stud colt by Skip N Don (branded, by Skippers Ring out of Skip N Donna) is really outstanding. Our third mare was DW Silver Serenade, she was young, gray and big. She's given us two nice big stud colts. We sold her first stud colt last October at the Skipper W sale in Oklahoma. We have his palomino brother in the barn, and I think he's going to be better than the last one. We can't wait to see her foal by DW Spanish Skiparing. In 2000 we purchased one more mare, another well-bred young mare, DW Exquisite Assault, by Skips Assault out of Silver Sarah.