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Featured Horse Owner |
Name: Bit Of Irish Racing - Category: Breeding
Address: Tooele, Utah 84074
Website: Coming Soon
E-Mail: lori@acorneroftheweb.com
Phone: (435) 849-5559
Info: Bit Of Irish Racing is a small mini ranch set in the beautiful bed and breakfast valley of Tooele County, Utah. Just starting out they have plans to show Gem (formal name FarUte DiamondsRTuff) in halter shows. Their other ambition is to run Quarter Horse Race Horses in local futurities. Currently building an arena for local use.
FarUte DiamondsRTuff
The Farute line is known for its versatility. Farute horses have done reining, halter, western pleasure and now I suppose BARRELS cus' she started and is doing great! The Farute line has sired some incredible horses! This is a very intelligent and kind line. Isn't she stunning! |
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Bid Of Irish Mist (left) - Update!
We Have A Baby!!! Little Princess Patty. Pictures to follow.
Daughter of Proudest Effort SI 105, Stakes-paced winner, $46,691, 3rd Bay Meadows Futurity-G1. Sire of 617 starters, 477 ROM, 51 stakes winners earning $5,323,826, including Magnificent Effort SI 94. Best producing race stallion in the state of Utah. 1st Dam Bid In Spades, by Bunny Bid.
Currently being bred to BS Gimme Five 2000 Grey SI 106, out of Lanes Leinster mare Sugar Tree Lane, 100% stakes qualifiers from all starters including BS Lightning (sw) SI 101, BS Proudest Squirt (sp) SI 93, BS Wild Thing SI 90, BS Girlfriend SI 89. Standing at B-S Quarterhorses LLC, Erda, Utah.
Mist Is For Sale - $1200 - email for details! |
and of course the motley crew (yes, if you look close there is a kitten in there :)
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Horse Owner Tips |
Diluting Feed Calcium Levels
Are you a Mad Scientist at feeding time? A dab of this; a shake of that? Horse owners, stable managers and trainers think they can make a better product in the privacy of their own feed room than a reputable feed manufacturer can make in their state-of-the-art lab or research facility. Here's an example. Scotchie-poo's owner loves him dearly and wants to do the best for him. But he gets a little hard to handle on the trail and he is overweight, so she has designed her own feed program. He gets a half scoop of sweet feed and a half scoop of oats. Plus the standard two flakes of hay at each feeding. She believes the oats dilute the molasses in the sweet feed, there-by reducing the sugar content or energy. Let's address the practice of feeding... |
Special Christmas Column
Walter wants to pull Santa’s sleigh. “Don’t be silly,” I said. “Reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh.” “That’s what they’d like you to believe,” he said with a sly grin. “The whole reindeer thing is big business you know.” “Well, that’s what I do believe,” I replied emphatically. That’s because you’re so gullible,” he said, walking to the back of his stall and turning his tail to me. "Haven’t you heard of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer?” I asked, beginning to feel I might be on shaky ground. He turned and looked at me as if I didn’t have a clue, as if I had no idea about this reindeer conspiracy. “The whole charade is based on rhyme,” he said... |
| Winter Care For Horses Baby, it's cold outside! Providing a comfortable and healthy environment helps ensure the horse will enter the busy spring season as healthy as possible. Nutrition, shelter and basic health are important year around, but during the cold winter months, are critical. NUTRITION: Water is the most important nutrient in a horse's diet. Many colic cases occur due to dehydration. Fresh, clean water accessible 24 hours a day is mandatory. Heated water buckets, stock tank deicers or heated... |
Weight Gain For Horses If a horse is under-weight, it's hard to get him fat. Whoa! It's easy; just feed him more, you say. Well, it's not that simple. Before we start thinking about increasing feeds and making changes we need to make sure the horse is truly underweight. We are so accustomed to seeing "well-rounded" horses when we see a fit horse we tend to think he is underweight. Dr. Don Henneke developed the industry standard for determining the condition of a horse in regard to body fat. The body condition score (BCS) rates horses on a scale of 1-9. One is a walking skeleton and nine is obese. The desired score for most horses would be... |
| Slow down, to get faster Often times, when working on certain maneuvers with my horses I find that I get in a rush to try and get speed involved. I find that instead of my horse getting "faster" at the maneuver, he instead starts to get "heavy" in my hands. When this happens, it's a huge signal from my horse telling me to slow down. Sometimes you have to go back to step one, and rebuild the very foundation of the maneuver to help your horse to understand. One example of this is the backup. I have noticed young horses, in particular, that in the beginning put a lot of effort into their backup. Later as you try to speed them up a bit, they become heavy, until it almost seems you have to pull them backwards. At this point, the best... |
If you’re going to breed horses If you’re going to breed horses, raise them and train them, then you’re significantly more important than the genetics involved. Yes, you! The greatest value derived from the study of genetics may be the jolting of the student from the world of dreams and into reality. Everyone dreams of breeding a winner; the reality is few do. Most breeders study bloodlines (mares and stallions), nicks, crosses, conformation, and competition records, yet seldom give consideration to the resulting foal’s environment, and that is why they fail so often. (One champion for every 20,000 foals.) Genetics, the science of heredity, is not exact and not controllable. Heredity is only the tendency of like to beget like. The key word is “tendency.” Even clones are not alike as genetic science is quickly learning. Without going into details, accept the fact that... |
| Does Your Horse Eat Like A Pig? Yes! Then acorns are one porcine delicacy he should avoid. Acorns are seeds or nuts produced by oak trees. There are more than 60 varieties of oaks in the continental United States. The bark, leaves and acorns contain an acidic chemical commonly known as tannin. Tannin has a bitter taste and is an astringent (contracts tissues and draws out fluids). It can damage the liver and kidneys of horses. Tannin also interferes with the utilization of protein. All plants contain some level of tannin. Oaks contain high levels. Within the family of oaks, red or black oak varieties contain the most tannin; white oak varieties contain the least. Buds and early spring leaves have a higher concentration of tannin than mature... |
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