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"A horse is the projection of people's dreams about themselves
-strong, powerful, beautiful- and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence."
| Shados Best Shot |
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| At WNYAA show in 1996 New York State fairgrounds |
| The first time I met 'Bee' was through an ade |
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| in the Sept.1985 Appaloosa News |
Her picture was in that year's (Sept.1985) Appaloosa News "Foal Showcase".
When I first laid eyes on her, I knew I had to have her! She captured my heart right then and there. There was just something
about her that I couldn't turn away from. After making arrangements with the Clarkes', I went to Missouri and picked her and
her half sister (I bought her half sister-'Shados Straw' also) up before winter of that year. This was the beginning of my
love for a great and wonderful mare; and the beginning of Whitetail-Hollow Appaloosas and Quarter Horses. She was to
be my foundation broodmare (her picture is top right). In later years her sister, 'Shados Straw' (April), was
sold to a local Appaloosa breeder.
| Bee |
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| as a yearling, she was very well put together. |
| Bee 1988 |
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| beginning saddle training |
Bee died at the young age of 12 years old of a disease known as EPM at Cornell University
Vet. Hosipital. She only produced 4 foals in her short life. Two colts and two fillys; the first one, a colt, my stallion,
was by El Cruzado a QH. The next two, a colt then a filly were by ApHC Skips Streak. The last, a filly, whom I still also
own, is line bred back to my stallion, her son; her sire was a black leopard Appaloosa by the name of CR-Flashlightning
by my stallion, and out of a Nugget Gambler mare. The filly turned out to be as beautiful as her mother; her name is FL-Attentivemiss
and is a black roan with a large white blanket. She has produced an outstanding colt in 2002 and is bred to a black QH for
a 2005 foal. She is taking up where her beautiful mother left off.
| Costume Class 1989 |
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| Fisher Farms open show |
| Shados Best Shot at WNYAA |
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| Bee and my friend, Lisa, at her last show in 1996 |
| Bee, April (her sister) and Misty |
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| first BIG snow storm. Dec.1985 |
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