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 senior red dun stallion "D.F. Fiddler's Gold" (ABC/ICHO) has both the Cypress and Skjonsberg breeding in his immediate pedigree.
True to the description of the "Cypress" bred Curly Horses, he has the speed of the Thourghbreds of his heritage and the tremendous athletic ability of the Quarter horse, and has the physical appearance of a well built Quarter Horse, with a gorgeous head......AND best of all, he is one of the rare stallions that stamps his foals with these same qualities.
*** This stallion is now gelded and sold, however we have kept several of his extrordinary foals in our performance/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/breeding program ***
ABC P-2567, ICHO# 743-D (ANC Chinook X Buck MT. Sassy)
1997 Red Dun Curly Stallion. "Buck" as we call this boy is a very classy Curly stallion, elegant and has incrediable movement.
He throws his beautiful colour the majority of the time and passes on his gorgeous head, class and his atheltic ability, to his foals.
A picture of one of his red dun Curly fillies out of a Morgan mare can be seen on our "Mare" page.
***Remember, a Curly part Morgan can be double registered, AND more importantly can be the answer to an allergy sufferer's allergy to horses, as the curly coat is hypo-allergenic to many with horse allergies.
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"Sharp" as a two year old
"RCR Sharp Dressed Man"
(Kreskin X Honey Babe)
...GAITED, maximum sabino, medicine-hat marked, spotted palomino, HOMOZYGOUS????, 14.2HH
DOB May 2004, ABCR # 3370 ICHO# 742-D
Are we proud or what to have this rare, rare 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 only be at public stud for fostrotting mares, but we will have his Curly foals for sale.
Watch for him as he matures.
"Sharp" as a foal
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"Curly Babe"
1995 red dun registered Curly ICHO, and registered ABCR
(Cypress Nicker X Krispy Krunch )
"Babe" is what is referred to an an "extreme" Curly. She does keep her mane and tail, upon shedding her winter coat, and to date has produced ALL curly coated foals.
Not only all curly, but also high quality, an example being her 2006 foal tied for first place at an Inspection.
As she is the half sister of our former incrediable moving red dun Curly stallion "D.F. Fiddler's Gold", now gelded and sold, having the same sire, we did'nt pass up the opportunity to buy this mare, that we strongly feel will be an incrediable assett to the quality we seek to produce in our Curlies here.
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"Golden Pearl of AnFarra"
DOB April 2005, (FrostFire's Tax Time X Silver Squaw) ICHO and ABCR registered
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.