| Allen Park Studs Herd - 26th August 2008 - The Colts! On these new pages you will find three separate herds of horses we have running on three of the properties at the moment. Unfortunately we ran out of light to take photographs of the herd at the home block. We will get a photo shoot of those horses done as soon as we can! |
| Above are the half brothers by Cherokee - both born early 2007. In the lead is Allen Park Braveheart who is being retained. |
| The colts look lovely all galloping along together, the bay boys are all young thoroughbreds who will grow up and when they are ready, be broken in and trained for racing. There is one among them who is on the for sale page, however if he stays, he too will probably race. The little black colt behind the bay and white out in front in the above photograph is by Allen Park Bald Eagle out of a roan welsh pony mare. The coloured colts are by Allen Park Cherokee. |
| Above left is Allen Park Braveheart, and above right is his half brother. The TB colt for sale is on the far left in the photograph at left, and the little black colt with the white stripe down his face on the right is the one by Allen Park Bald Eagle. He is also on the for sale page as is the bay and white colt out in front there as well. |
| Pictured right is AP Dakotas foal from May 2007 by Cherokee. Dakota is a daughter of AP Bald Eagle, out of a Clydesdale mare. This colt is of course then half clydesdale and is a full brother to AP Geronimo and AP Lakota. Below is the bay and white colt by Cherokee out of a TB mare. He is 1/4 Clydesdale and lighter boned than the colt at right. |
| Pictured right is just one of the colts 'paddock pals' - they are out with a fairly large herd of cattle on 900 acres. They are on good clover and medic along with various grasses. Having lots of area to run and undulating hills in the paddock is fantastic for their growing bones and muscles. They are regularly checked on. |
| In the photograph at left you can just see the dust created by the colts cantering along the paddock. The colts are separated from the mares and fillies when they are old enough to have their hormones kicking into gear! They are generally run with just other colts and geldings of all ages, and on occasion, with the stallions as well. It just depends on whether the stallions are |
| serving mares at the time or not. You can see the differences in the 1/2 Clydesdale colt at right, and the 1/4 Clydesdale colt below. Both are lovely types, and are quite obviously half brothers, however the half clydesdale |
| is heavier boned and is a bit heavier through the head as well. Cherokee seems to consistently throw the same build in all his offspring - with the variations only being in the size of bone depending on the dams breeding. |
| Braveheart, pictured above, is growing nicely. He was born in February 2007, and although he is very wooly with his winter coat at the moment, is quite refined in his build and is going to be a lovely 'replacement' for Bald Eagle. Nothing will replace Baldy, however this young fellow is going to come very close. He will finish up around the 15.3hh - 16hh mark - so a bit taller than Baldy. He will be tested to see if he is homozygus for Black next time he is brought in and handled. He has already had quite a bit of handling and has been a lovely boy to deal with in every regard so far. Allen Park Herd - 26th August 2008 - Page 2 Allen Park Home Page Allen Park For Sale Page |