HUNT COUNTRY FARM
Elverson, PA
19520 610-286-6282
hardsa@aol.com
IN MEMORY
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We lost two long-time companions within a month of each other in the Spring of 2003. The neighbors used to joke about our "geriatric" horse endeavors, but these good old girls deserved the best until the Lord took them home.
Sweet Charity Too - 1969 AQHA 0645737
Sire: Easter King (King P234 x Gocha H)
Dam: Dixanna 4 Hancock (Buck Hancock x Blue Berry 70)
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Charity had been given to me when she was 2 and I was 10. Mixing 2 year olds with a youth rider frequently doesn't work, but it did this time. This mare had the disposition for which King and Hancock bred horses are famous. She tolerated her rider facing forward, backward, single, double or even triple. It just didn't matter to her.
Not only was Charity a youth sitter extraordinaire, but she was good looking and a good mover into the bargain. Her AQHA show record included 10 open western pleasure (ROM) points, 1 open halter point, 5 youth western pleasure points and 1 youth hunt seat point. While never shown, she was also pretty good at reining and cutting as well. In addition, we cleaned up on the open show circuit for years in northern Indiana.
Woven in among her show career, Charity produced 4 foals, 1 by Bar Flower and 3 by Lads Imperial. When 33 years young, Charity was baby sitting her daughter's foals.
After 32 years together even at the rather mature age of 34, it was hard to say goodbye.
Ruby Swift - 1977 AQHA 1341716
Sire: Antles Chance (Bee Play x Kickapoo Jo Jo)
Dam: Flying Deep (Rachal Deep x Flying Zal)
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Ruby came to us in 1980 as the result of a lawsuit. She wasn't bred the way we normally like them nor was she quite as quiet as we might have liked. She was however a beautiful mover with a "look at me" presence. She was only shown AQHA one weekend, winning 2 working hunter, 1 hunter hack and 1 amateur hunt seat equitation classes for 3 open AQHA points. She was also found frequently winning on the Colorado open hunter/jumper circuit.
In addition to fence work, Ruby trail rode insatiably all over the front range of the Rocky Mountains, south of Denver. We knew the best places for finding baby fawn, coyotes and Rocky Mountain rattlers (avoiding the latter when possible).
Further, this relatively big (15.3 hands) girl just loved to play with cows. While I never got good enough to show her, she loved to cut and was good at it.
Ruby was with us for 23 of her 26 years. She is sorely missed.