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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 of classic and
park pleasure wins. 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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See her foal. |
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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. In
2003 she was the UMH and KMSHA Reserve High
Point Classic Mare. She also won the prestigious
Al Prewitt Memorial Award. In BOTH 2003 and
2004, Fancy was crowned the UMH and KMSHA Open
Amateur Classic Pleasure High Point Award
recipient as well as being the Open Amateur
Classic Pleasure World Champion. Along with an
impressive show record, 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
World 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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Holiday |
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From
the time we purchased Holiday from Fonzie
Graham, she has produced nothing but winners for
Stoner Ridge Farm. You may remember Flashy
Feature and Mid-Summer's Night. One of her most
well known foals, of course, has been the
memorable New Addition mare - winner of five UMH
and KMSHA High Point awards for 2003. Legendary
Lady is another mare that has done phenomenally
well winning the Sam Tuttle Memorial Award twice
– once with her trainer Erin DeAtley and once
with her owner Judy Brummer. Holiday’s foals
gait from birth and possess all the qualities
desired in our Mountain Horses - gentle
disposition, willing attitude, and that fabulous
four beat gait. We loved last year’s filly by
Silver Sundown so we bred her back to him
again.
In
May of 2008, Holiday had another beautiful colt
by SRF’s Silver Sundown.
You can see why we bred her back to him not
once, not twice, but for the third time as
well.
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Pictured above, Holiday with her 2010 foal,
Silver’s Promise.
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Mid-Summer's Night |
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A pretty black mare, twelve
year-old Summer is out of Holiday by Pete. She
has had several very nice foals which all have
been chocolate or black. Her four year-old
filly, She's Got Curves by Sonny's Smokey
Mountain, has been started and is doing very
well. The combination of Summer's ancestry -
Dock and Buddy Roe lines and Smokey's parentage
- Sonny and Choco lines is a great cross for
fluid, flexible movement. In 2008, Summer had a
Merry Go Blue colt. Here he is. What a cutie.
He has the essence of his sire, Merry Go Blue.
Erin decided to breed Summer Dock's Mr. Sandman and she had another black colt.
Summer is for sale. She’s
a good trail horse and she wasn’t bred last
season. See the sale page
for more information.
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