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1997 - the internet was fairly new to us in work and I had been
searching
Video Clip of Muffin as a yearling I contacted Virginia asking what she had available and that we were replacing our current stallion the following year as we wanted cutting bloodlines from proven stock. Video clip of my first ride on 2 year old Muffin in USA - very hot and dusty indoor arena
Video of Muffin's sire, Starbert C Ed
She said she had a nice buckskin yearling with Cutter Bill, Doc O Lena and Peppy San Badger on his papers. She sent me photos and I said "can you put him in the back field until next year and we'll come and see him" she said she would turn him out in 6,000 acres for the year and hang onto him for us and start him the following spring. She did and he was proving to be a "very level headed colt" with a "superb disposition".
I had just ridden 2 year old Muffin and Cornbread was showing us the kind of work he does with young horses.
The following year, 1998, we booked a trip to Seattle to see him and also were looking for a mare also with cutting/ranch/reining bloodlines. We arrived lunchtime and Virginia immediately poured us some beers. It was an hour before she finally took us to see him in the big barn with all the other horses. She said after that we'd travelled thousands of miles and thought we might not like him. We loved him!! He was sweet, gentle and apart from trying to buck the trainer off in the first minute, he was amazing. I rode him for quite a while and said we'd have him. I was riding him back across to be washed down and Cornbred, one of their horse trainers, was walking beside me with Graham. One of the farmhands was driving a combine towards us and Cornbred stepped in front of us and held up his hand. The combine stopped. Cornbred said "ha, the farmworkers think they're tough, but not as tough as us cowboys and they know that we could whoop their a**es any time we like". He's a great character! We spent the next few days with Virginia and Steve on their ranch, visiting mares and all their stallions they had at the time. He arrived a couple of months later with Chianti - it took us that long to find a shipper as not many people had done this before it seemed. The lorry driver, managed to get stuck on our drive and as it was a Friday night and everyone was out at the pub! we took 4 hours to find someone with a tractor to come and pull him out. The lorry was at a dangerous angle and in danger of tipping over with Muffin, Chianti and a shetland pony on board and we couldn't get the ramp down due to the angle. Amazingly they were sane when they finally came off. I rode Muffin for a few weeks then due to lack of time, he wasn't ridden since, which is a shame as he was fantastic and sensible. Since then he has produced consistent quality foals of which most are riding, only one which went straight to be a broodmare and never ridden, the rest are consistently winning many championships in both English and Western classes and then sensible enough to ride out in between shows. Muffin is very popular with visitors and always proves gentle and calm around everybody, not a nasty bone in his body and loves cuddles from children especially. He is one in a million and will continue to cover our mares in 2009.
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Contact Details: Pat and
Graham Evans, Powys, South Wales, UK
Mobile:
07896 501 557 Email: Evans Quarter Horses Established 1993 - 2008 |
Muffin
as a foal and then a yearling in Washington
