Rosaleigh and Roxanne

Roxanne and her sister/aunt Rosaleigh are even closer than sisters, they both share the same sire Othello pictured below:

and Rosaleigh's dam was Roxanne's grand dam. This mother and daughter were both bred to Othello and both mares delivered a filly a week apart. Roxanne was born March 30th, 2013 and Rosaleigh was born April 6th, 2013. Rosaleigh turned out taller than Roxanne and has more hair. Check out the mane and feather on Rosaleigh.

Rosaleigh had a temper and one time Emily was working on a waterer, Rosaleigh came up to bug her, Emily shoved her out of the way and Rosaleigh turned around and kicked her.  We were SHOCKED! It was obvious that she considered herself a primadonna . We had to dispel that notion immediately as we cannot have a mare that kicks here. How that was solved was she was taken to the round pen and each time Rosaleigh would turn her rear end to us she was made to work.  It didn't take long for Rosaleigh to decide it was easier to face the human and rest. We did a little training work with her when she was 2 years old then at 3 Rhoda trained her undersaddle.

We bred her to Evan and she had the most spectacular stud colt June 13th, 2017.

We were pretty thrilled with what she produced so bred her back to Evan and she had a gorgeous filly with huge movement May 20th, 2018

Of course we bred her back to Evan (why mess with success) and she had another beautiful filly April 24th, 2019.

Rosaleigh will be bred back to Evan hopefully in April for a March 2021 foal.

Roxanne was more timid and afraid as a 2 year old. She wasn't mean but wasn't like our home bred Friesians which kind of surprised us. We thought all Friesians were loving and easy to train. She wasn't terrible, just not very mature even at age 3. Karin was working with her both here and at Middle Grove. 

When we brought her back to the Hanna City farm Rhoda started her under saddle and she did very well. I think she just needed more time to mature.

She was bred to Valiant and delivered a colt July 25th, 2017

We were pretty pleased with what she produced so bred her back to Valiant and she delivered a filly July 8th, 2019

Meanwhile Roxanne was turning out to be a very nice riding mare for Rhoda. 

She took her out on the trails with her foal with no problems.

We loved her foals by Valiant but wanted to see what she would produce when bred to Evan so did that for 2020. Roxanne is due June 5th, 2020. She is just a beautiful mare.

We can't wait to see her 2020 foal by Evan.