Evans Quarter Horses
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Evans Quarter Horses
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Just some of the world class horses in our superb breeding programme that we are very proud of. It doesn't happen overnight, it takes years and years of research and experience to find the right horses, not picked for their foundation blood or nice eyelashes/legbarrings (LOL!) but for their toughness and proven, trainable performance pedigrees which then go on to be everything you want in a horse....well, that's what we think anyway! ".............so why don't you get a quarter horse?" Graham asked me, innocently enough, one day in about 1992..... "what's a quarter horse?" I remember me asking, also innocently enough! People have asked me the same thing, again only to visit, just out of curiosity and then be completely addicted and have to have an Evans QH, and one is never enough! My first horse was a yearling gelding, TB x New Forest whom my parents thought would be great to grow up with a 10 year old little girl. Wrong! He was naughty and soon learned he could get away from me and it was a common sight to see him galloping up the main road with me running behind. He sadly broke his leg aged 6, just when we were getting it together and was put down after a week of vets messing about with him. I had Frisbee soon after - an unbroken 4 year old great grandson of Never Say Die. I had to have him and I had him for 26 years until he died a few years ago aged 30. He was Muffin's constant companion since 1998 when he arrived from USA as a 2 year old. Frisbee did just about everything a horse could do, show jumping, cross country, dressage, endurance, pony racing but the one thing he never did was do western and neither did I at the time. We spent many years in Pony Club and Riding Clubs competing in hunter and working hunter classes. We bred a couple of part-bred quarter horses with a Welsh Cob we had at the time then went on to buy Arabis Indiana Jones as a colt foal. He sired a few nice foals but we planned to sell or geld him when we bought our current stallion, Every Mother Child aka Muffin. We had seen video and pics of Muffin as a foal and asked Virginia to keep him for us until we could arrange to get to see him, which we did when he was a started 2 year old. Northern Chianti also came home that year as a 5 year old with Muffin a 2 year old. Further trips to Washington, Texas and Oklahoma, Oregon and we have the mares and stallions we have today. Muffin's foals have been beyond our wildest dreams. We had been searching for a second stallion for a couple of years and we planned to go out to Reno to a high profile sale. Then I found the perfect horse and it turned out he belonged to Rebecca Algar, a lovely lady who I first chatted to many years ago and we had ended up buying Mynx who was by her champion stallion Mucho Bueno Lynx. She had moved to Texas and what a small world it is! A lovely genuine lady who adores her horses and has been very successful in the States in her chosen discipline of cutting having competed in all the other western and English disciplines and was a national hunt jockey in her earlier days in the UK! 'ZZ Hoss' came home the end of 2008 and is proving to be a million times better than we ever dreamed any horse could be. A trained cutting horse who also rides English and novices and kids ride him. Breeders and trainers in USA and Germany have looked at our site and emailed commenting on how such a high performance trained/bred stallion has a temperament which is "off the scale". The friends we have made because of quarter horses has been the best part of breeding. like minded people with the same goals and visions as us, riding quality horses who not only look great but have top bloodlines which are winning many championships in the show ring, English and Western and also riding out in all types of terrain. Truly as versatile as we are breeding for. Our main passion is riding out which we do as much as we can find time for, in all terrain and winds and weather, these amazing horses excel at what they were originally bred to do, ride all day!
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Contact Details:
Pat and Graham Evans, Powys, South Wales, UK
Evans Quarter Horses....for nearly 20 years.... |
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