"AnFarra" Curly horse breeding,........
Thank you for viewing our wonderful "North American Curly" horses and ponies.
This intriguing breed of horse has a very interesting Native American history, swirling with bits and pieces of documented facts and mystical shrouded "Spirit" type of beliefs.
Amongst the documented facts are Curly Horses, dipicted in early Native pictographs, interestingly alluding to the Curly horse being in North America BEFORE the Spanish horses appeared with the first Spanish explorers.
Plus stories told of the Sioux and Crow stealing the highly valued "Curly" horses from each other.
In the written documentation of the Army and newspaper reports regarding the tragic "Wounded Knee" episode, there was mention of Curly Horses being there for that dark historical event.
*** Interestingly Canada has two very old lines of Curly horses "Cypress" and "Skjonsberg", AND is the location of the first documented "white" man breeding Curly horses at the turn of the 1900's,.....decades before the "Demeles" in the USA.
A gentlemen in Alberta by the last name of Skjonsberg caught a feral Curly horse at a watering hole in 1900 and his family bred them into the next century!
Curlies were also seen in the wild herds of the Alberta foothills as far back as the 1920's.
Curlies are also known to have been in Manitoba in the 1920's
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We are quite proud of the fact that our several of our Curly horses have both the Cypress and Skjonsberg breeding in their immediate pedigree.
True to the description of the "Cypress" bred Curly Horses, they have the speed of the Thourghbreds of their heritage and the tremendous athletic ability of the Quarter horse, complimented with attractive heads and elegant conformation.
More interestingly yet, as a breeder, l have taken note that these traits actually are well stamped in their lineage and it consistantly is passed on to their foals.
*** Our original stallion of this particular pedigree is now gelded and sold, however we have kept several of his extrordinary foals in our performance program, AND have a half sister, a great producing mare of the same pedigree yet in our breeding program ***
We have hand selected a core group of some Quality, Quality Curlies, with diverse talents and attributes, movement and colour, to try to provide an array of selection for your particular interests.
Our "sport horse" types for "cutting edge" competitive performance, to family pleasure attitudes, all raised, and handled with responsiable, top quality care for the utmost top notch results.
Along with our gaited Curlies which foxtrot, running walk, and with some even racking, amongst our "gaited" Curly program.
Please contact us for further information on any of our horses, and we will promptly reply.....transportation is easily arranged world-wide.
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************Stallions***********
Winter hair.......
Pictures taken at four years of age.
Curly winter coat
"D.F. Fiddlers Gold" *** This stallion is now gelded and sold, however we have kept several of his extrordinary foals in our performance program tat are for sale, see our "Sales" page.... ***
ABC P-2567, ICHO# 743-D (ANC Chinook X Buck MT. Sassy)
1997 Red Dun Curly Stallion..
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"Sharp" two months of saddle/gaited training at four years of age, July 2009
"Sharp" at 3 years, May 2008
Shown below in winter coat coming 2 years old.......
"Sharp" at 2 yrs
"RCR Sharp Dressed Man" (Kreskin X Honey Babe)...GAITED, medicine-hat marked, spotted palomino,HOMOZYGUS????, 14.2HH
DOB May 2004, ABCR #3370, ICHO#742-D
Are we proud or what to have this rare, rare foxtrotting Curly stallion in Canada.
Brought up from the Richardson's, known for their quality, micro-curly Curlies, we are enchanted with this wonderful, sweet stallion.
"Sharp" will not be at public stud except to foxtrotting mares, but we will have his Curly foals for sale.
Watch for him as he matures.
"Sharp" as a foal
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AM Beuntsmo, grey mare, micro curly homozygous,
DOB 1999, ICHO, ABCR 1/2 registered.
We are very proud to have this outstanding quality micro Curly mare here, originally from Al Marah Farm, in Arizona.
This mare is glamourous beyond beleif in a actual appearance and her movement is superb,.....her overall appearance is that of a curly coated Andulsian.
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"Golden Pearl of AnFarra"
DOB April 2005, (FrostFire's Tax Time X Silver Squaw) ICHO # pending, ABCR eligiable
We are looking forward to Pearl's maturing, as she has incrediable movement, very much suited for Dressage.
With her very curly mane, and her palomino colour, she is stand-out quality and with her suspended, but animated movement, she stops you dead in your tracks.
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"Cypress Curly Babe"
1993 Red Dun registered Curly ICHO #757-D, and registered ABCR#P-1776 (Cypress Nicker X Krispy Krunch)
This mare is what is referred to as an "Extreme Curly" and to date has produced all hypo-allergenic Curly coated foals. She is the paternal half sister to our former red dun Curly stallion(now gelded and sold) that produced us some exception moving foals, (see our sales page, etc.) and she herself has proven to do the same.Her colt to be presented at an Inspection, tied for High Score at the Inspection !
"Babe" is not only a broodmare but also ridden.
With her ability to reproduce Sporthorse Quality foals, we will be breeding her to SportHorse/Warmblood stallions, hoping for not only talent and willing attitudes but the Hypo-allergenic Curly coat.
VERY EXCITING Breeding Plans for this mare
We have frozen semen from the acclaimed Dutch Warmblood stallion "Oxford".
A sensational Sporthorse stallion not only gorgeous, but scored incrediable "9"'s for most of his Inspection, in particular for Ability, and Character.
Needless to say we are doing these AI's with hopes for a Hypo-allergenic Curly exceptional SportHorse foals.
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"Joy of Seattle"
1997 Bay registered Thoroughbred Mare, registered Warmblood Approved Trakehner, CSI approved
(Keratoid X Seattle Supreme)
This truly gorgeous TB mare is royally bred with both "Settle Slew" and Northern Dancer on her papers.
When inspected she scored a 76, and measured an 8" cannon bone.
Her beauty is only equalled by her intelligence as this mare is startingly intelligent.
We are so proud to have this triple registered mare, for our Curly Sporthorse breeding program.
Joy will be breed early spring of 2010,to our max white sabino Curly stallion "Sharp", hoping for a Curly hypo-allergenic Sport horse foal.