Blue Berry is a very refined black mare purchased from Kathy and Gary Poling of Royal Oak in the fall of 2004.  She is a double registered 32” daughter of the champion driving stallion, Dell Teras Dellas Joe Berry.  See Blue Berry on our For Sale page. 

Blue Berry was in foal to Polings' magnificent young show stallion Royal Oaks Impressive Lover for a March 2005 foal.  She presented us with a red hot chestnut filly, Royal Oaks Impressive Flare, which can be seen on our Foal's page.

In May of 2006, Blue Berry produced a flashy silver dapple pinto colt by Royal Oaks Simply Awesome. This colt, Charminy Mystical Spindrift is also on our Foal's page.

Click to view Blue Berry's AMHA Pedigree.

I bought Impress as a weanling from Royal Oaks Farm in Florida. Now a yearling, this flashy triple registered pinto filly has straight legs, a lovely arched neck and tons of color. She carries herself very upright and has a lovely animated hesitation trot. At her first sanctioned show she went Junior Champion Mare and Reserve Grand Champion Mare. She has since never placed less than Reserve Junior Champion Mare and has a good future in liberty classes. Look for this filly in the show ring.

Impress is by the chestnut pinto stallion Royal Oaks Impressive Lover and out of the black pinto mare Lucky Four’s Dynamo Darling.

Lot-Sa-Fun Fiestas Hot Fudge Sundae was purchased from Michele Halverson when she was just a weanling.  Her coloring was just beautiful, and she was so darn cute that I just couldn’t resist buying her.  As a yearling she started her show career with me as her very novice trainer/handler.

Sundae was triple registered.AMHA. AMHR, and PtHA and has matured at only 28 inches.  She did pretty well at the shows, considering that I hadn’t a clue as to how to train or show a horse at halter.  Her small size was a bit of a handicap in that most of the shows we attended were AMHR shows and she had to compete in the same classes with bigger horses. 

Sundae’s sire was Tinker Toys Fiesta, a handsome homozygous tobiano pinto.  Like Sundae, he had that nice brown/black/white pinto coloring .  He had sired many show foals for Michele Halverson, and is now doing the same somewhere down south.

Sundae is in foal for March 2007 to Houck’s McEric.

Click to view Sundae's AMHA Pedigree.

Royal Oaks Mystical Charisma was purchased as a weanling from Kathy and Gary Poling from Haines City, Florida in November of 2003. In 2004, Charisma did very well at the AMHR National Show going National Champion Model Mare (Under) and Top Ten Color Mare (Under).  She is a black and white pinto sired by Scott Creek  Mystical Confetti out of Century Farms Skylar.  I first saw a video of her that I picked up at the AMHA National Show.  Polings sent me an updated video of her at 8 months, and I was sold.  My friend Lori Schuette and I drove down to Florida to pick her up along with a gorgeous palomino pinto weanling colt for Gene Larscheidt and a black and white pinto filly for Lisa VanLanen.

When I was looking for a show filly, I especially wanted one that was leggy with a long graceful neck.  Charisma was that and more.  I couldn’t wait for warm weather so I could body clip her and get her ready to show.  She didn’t disappoint me.  The trot is her gait of choice.  Even at this age I could see that it was something special.

With the patient help of trainer Tony Larscheidt and his wife Gene, Charisma and I had a successful show season.  She won many yearling under, amateur, and color classes topped with a Best In Show honor at the 2003 H.A.M.E.show in Belvidere, IL.

Charisma’s sire is Scott Creek Mystical Confetti sired by Brewer’s Orion Mystic out of G G Black Gold. 

Charisma is in foal for April 2007 to Houck’s Stouts Van Huttenest Royal (AMHA, AMHR National Champion Stallion Under 28” in 2004)

Click to view Charisma's AMHA Pedigree.