I asked Mike to write something about how his program came into being. In other words, where did Mabel come from. The following is part 1 of the story:
BOON DOCS FRECKLES, mables sire is the culmination of a project that started back in the early 90s. after spending the better part of a life time making silk purses out of sows ears I had reached a point in my life where priorities of family life took us away from the horse show circuit. in order to keep my hand in it I had decided at that point it was time to take my horse passion in another direction that would enable us to be a stay at home horse family instead of a traveling circus.
The natural progression for me was to start raising our own colts and getting them started as futurity prospects.
We already had a pretty nice set of mares bred the rite way and id trained them all so knew exactly what we had
The next step was to search the countryside looking for the kind of horse it takes to be a herd sire..i had always admired the horse COLONEL REY LENA and knew i would be looking for a horse bred that way. a herd sire for me anyway needs to come from a program where the herd sire stamps his get to look just like the last one uniformity in type was a big requirement and pretty from every angle.
We came upon a stallion by the name of COMMANDER FRECKLES by COLONEL FRECKLES out of the mare MEMORY KING by COMMANDER KING out of a daughter of MONSIUR JOE
after touring thru the ranch and looking at better than 50 head of colts that all looked like carbon copies of their sire i knew i found the rite spot . so i started going thru the papers and noticed most of his mares all went back to another horse i was always impressed by THERMO SOCK who was by POWER RIO by POWER COMMAND who is a full brother to KING COMMAND sire of COMMANDER KING
i really liked seeing this blood doubled up in a breeding horse so i settled on a really nice 2 year old buckskin stud horse LEO LENA SOCKS.
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