A registered and Certified to breed RMHA/KMSHA, Golden Buckskin Stallion
Standing at Quiet Valley Farm in Mechanicsville, MD 20659
Hondo is
our lead stallion who has wonderful foundation bloodlines. His sire is by Broken Bone's Sam's Son out of a Choco Mare and his dam is a Maple's Squirrel Daughter.
Click here for his pedigree. and go to our OneTrueMedia share page
to see several videos of him including conformation shots, gaiting and foal updates.
Hondo is:
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A golden buckskin with minimal white markings, NO silver dapple gene and
he carries the red gene to sire both palomino and buckskin foals. Click here to see some of his foals
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Registered and certified to breed in both the
Rocky Mountain Horse Association and the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse Association.
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Certified free of ocular exam findings consistent with either the cyst (heterozygous) or homozygous form of the Multiple Congenital
Ocular Anomaly (MCOA) Syndrome (formerly known as ASD) by Dr. Mary Utter, D.V.M, Ph.D., DACVO,
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of PA, George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals, New Bolton Center.
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15.1 hands with tremendous bone and substance a muscular 'quarter horse' build and, true to his breed, he does a 100% natural saddle rack, always barefoot
trimmed to natural angles.
His stud fee is $500 with a multiple mare discount and we offer both live cover and artificial insemination.
Shipped cooled or frozen semen is provided using the services of Equine Reproductive Concepts in Amissville, VA.
Because we offer AI, mares in for live cover are required to have a current vaccinations/worming and a negative serum exposure test for Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM), Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA);
and negative Coggins prior to breeding.
Hondo is so intelligent, patient, kind and gentle that when challenged by being entered in a judged pleasure ride his first time off the farm, he placed 2nd out of 16 entries!
He is definitely producing that laid back, intelligent temperament in his foals. His small band of breeding mares is comprised strong gaited, friendly cream and silver carrying mares who are also our riding companions.
Hondo is coat color tested as EeAaCrcr no silver. Black based, single
bay, single cream. Click here http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/service/horse/coatcolor.html
to see the explanations of coat color testing results.
We keep him social (and happy) by
riding him frequently with horses of both genders. He is pastured with mares during breeding season and with stud colts and/or geldings during non breeding season.
The picture to the left is with Troubadour,
our Silver-Champagne stud colt. We enjoy him for what he is, our trusted family companion.
Email
me to inquire about breeding your mare or acquiring/reserving
one of his foals.
Or come visit him in person, you won't be disappointed!
