Hope For Horses = $2183.25!
Treehouse = $413.63 + clothing & toys
Canyon Hills Food Bank = $206.82 + over 400# of food!
Total Raised = $2803.70!!!
The most popular activity at the Event was of course the Pony Rides!
Who is having more fun?
Cute!
HHABC is committed to assisting local charities that help support or provide for horses and humans in our community. This year we are once again partnering with Hope For Horses in Woodinville and Canyon Hills C0mmunity Church.
What a privilege it is to assist 2 great organizations in our local community that provide hope for hungry humans and horses.
Hope For Horses is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered to do business in Washington State located in Woodinville. For nearly ten years, they have championed humane care of all equines through legislation, cruelty investigations, assistance in impoundment, rehabilitation, education, and outreach. Horses are facing a crisis in our country. Across the nation, they are being abandoned, left to starve, or forced to endure long treks outside our borders to a place of certain death . They are starving, in need of medical attention, or have lost all hope. They need our help. They need your help. Learn More about how you can volunteer or help this Charity of Champions assist our equine friends!
Canyon Hills Community Church Food Bank is opening May 1, 2010 to serve the surrounding local area at Canyon Park in Bothell, Washington. They need donations of food for the many hungry people who have been hit hardest by the economy. Click the link to find out what type of food they need. HHABC will be collecting the food donations at the May 22 event.
ANNUAL CHARITY EVENT
**ONE DAY ONLY**
Saturday, May 22, 2010 – 10am to 4pm
♦ Tack Sale ♦
If you are interested in consigning an item – Call (206) 351-1248
♦ Junktique Sale ♦ Natural Horsemanship Demonstrations ♦ Silent Auction
♦ Pony Rides ♦ Yummy Bake Sale ♦ Games ♦ Book Signings by local authors
AND MUCH MORE…
Help us support these GREAT causes:
http://www.hopeforhorses.net/ www.canyonhillscommunitychurch.com
So save the date! Bring the family & friends! A bag of non-perishable food items for the food bank will get you entered in our hourly drawings for HHABC Gift Certificates, Free Pony Rides, Game Tickets and more! See you there!
Driving Directions:
From Hwy 9 – head west on 180th St. S.E. Go 1 mile and turn right onto West Interurban Blvd (NOT Interurban Blvd.). Go 1 mile- we are on the right.
From Bothell-Everett Highway – head east on 180th St. S.E. Go 2 miles and turn left onto 51st Ave. S.E. Go ½ mile and turn right onto West Interurban Blvd. We are on your left just past Doggy Haven Resort.
Mary L-W (a Boarder at HHABC) owns one of the rarest genetically colored horses in the world (His name is Blue-and no…he is not blue…haha). I found an excellent discussion at a website that describes rare and unusual horse colors and found, to my surprise, a treasure trove of information explaining these colored jewels of the equine world. Not only is Blue’s color unusually rare, but this is a horse of a different mind and color…he fetches like a dog…(Video coming soon). Seriously he is the “Barn Clown” and he is entertained several times a week by his equally silly humans. I know he whispers to the other horses in the pasture how funny we humans are when we play with him in the arena…who’s training who? He has us running around throwing his ball and toys so he can retrieve them…sorry…I digress…
"Is that one shot or two?"
"Human- Whispering"
Genetic discussion of Champagne dilute gene horses: A Champagne horse is any horse with one (heterozygous) or two (homozygous) Champagne color dilution genes. The champagne gene appears the same in appearance (phenotype) whether it is homozygous or heterozygous. Champagne dilute horses will usually (but not ALWAYS) have a specific kind of freckling on the skin, (different from mottling of spotted horses, and other dilutes) that is evident where hair is thin (muzzle etc). It will also lighten their eyes. Foals will have blue eyes at birth, which gradually darken to hazel to light borwn at maturity. Many champagne horses are also very shiny, with a metallic sheen to their coat. But not all of them! And the satin sheen may be a completely separate gene! (See weird!). Gold Champagne is champagne on sorrel or chestnut. Amber Champagne is champagne on bay. Classic Champagne is champagne on black. Sable Champagne is champagne on a brown horse.
This dilute gene is quite rare in most equine breeds, and for that reason, we are interested in listing all horses with the champagne dilute gene, even in the heterozygous form. Remember mares owners, breeding to a heterozygous stallion gives a 50% chance of color inheritance to the foal, whereas breeding to a homozygous stallion will guarantee inheritance to the foal (as much as possible with Mother Nature). Read More about rare and unusual colors.
Many people confuse “buckskin” colored horses with “dun” colored horses. The information below was gathered from several websites explaining the differences. Click on the photos of my horse “Tiger” and see if you can identify his color-coded features. He is a 13 yo 1/4 Arab and 3/4 Quarter Horse cross. His Sire (Papa) was a rare Tovero Paint (look up this unusual color) and his Dam (Mama) was a Tobiano Pinto (1/2 Arab, 1/2 QH). Can you see the prominent dorsal stripe down his back through his tail. I wonder where I got his name…
Buckskin horses are a light-to-dark sandy yellow or tan color with all black points. Buckskins are very similar to duns, however, buckskins do not have a dorsal stripe or other “primitive” markings that are shown in the dun color.
A true colored buckskin should be the color of tanned deerhide with black points. Shades may vary from yellow to dark gold. Points (mane, tail, legs) can be dark brown or black. Buckskin is clean of any smuttiness. Guard hairs which are buckskin colored grow through the body coat up over the base of the mane and tail.
Dun horses have a sandy/yellow to reddish/brown coat. Their legs are usually darker than their body and sometimes have faint “zebra” stripes on them. Dun horses always have a “dorsal” stripe, which is a dark stripe down the middle of their back. Sometimes the dorsal stripe continues down the horse’s dock and tail, and through the mane. Many dun colored horses also have face masking, which makes the horse’s nose and sometimes the rest of the face a darker color than the horse’s body.
Dun is found in many breeds such as Quarter Horses, Spanish Mustangs, Miniature Horses, Icelandic Horses and many European pony and draft breeds. Fjords and the Sorria are exclusively Dun and in some breeds such as the Arabian and Thoroughbred, Dun doesn’t exist at all.
Since Dun closely resembles Buckskin when it’s present on a Bay base color, it’s common to hear the term Buckskin and Dun used to describe any horses that have a tan colored body with black points whether there are primitive markings present or not. The difference between this gene and the Cream dilution gene is that Dun also causes primitive markings to be present on the horse. These are a shade or two darker than the body color and include the following traits.
Dorsal Stripe
This is a dark line that goes from the base of the mane to the base of the tail. Sometimes it goes through the middle of the mane, tail or both giving the horse a dark streak through the middle of each. This trait is always present on a Dun horse and should not be confused with the more subtle dorsal stripes caused by countershading. Terms associated with this Dun trait are: eel stripe, list, lineback and backstripe. You may hear people call Dun colored horses, “lineback Duns”.
Zebra Stripes
Another trait caused by the Dun gene is horizontal marks on the legs of the horse. These range from above the hock or knee to below and usually fade into the dark part of the leg. These lines are commonly called Zebra or Tiger stripes. These can be very dark like in the photo or so light they are hardly visible. These marks may not appear on all Dun horses and it is sometimes very hard to see them on darker shades.
Shoulder Stripe
These are dark marks that can be very obvious or subtle shading that cross over the withers onto the shoulders of the horse
Cobwebbing
Some Dun horses have darker rings or stripes on their foreheads. This is commonly called cobwebbing or spiderwebbing.
Brindle Dun
A different and unique body coloration with stripes appearing over the barrel of the body and most, if not all, the dun factor characteristics. Brindle Duns show up in the Netherlands and they are referred to as an ancient dun color. The peculiar body markings can appear in the form of tear drops or zebra stripes.
The history of the Azteca can be found at many websites. One in particular I found useful in describing this magnificent breed is By, Bonnie McMillan.
"Tico" 4 yo Azteca-B offered at $3500
History
The Azteca is the result of a great love of horses in Mexico. Mexico has always had a great interest and admiration for horses and equine sports. Although various equine breeds existed in the country, there was no native Mexican breed. Even the Criollo horses that so valiantly served their masters in the Mexican Revolution which was fought on horseback were not truly a native breed. The hardy Criollos were descendants of Spanish stock introduced by Spanish colonists. During the Revolution, many of these horses were killed and breeding had all but stopped resulting in near extinction of the Mexican Criollo horse.
In the early 1970’s, a group of distinguished horsemen took on the task of creating a breed of horse native to Mexico. They wanted a horse possessing its own specific conformation, characteristics and set of purposes. They envisioned a horse reminiscent of the Criollo so often depicted in works of painters and photographers that recorded the period of the revolution. They desired a graceful, manageable horse to work and ride that possessed an aptitude for the highly popular Charreria. It was decided that the breed with the desired characteristics could be developed by carefully crossing Spanish Andalusian stallions to Quarter Horse and Criollo mares of certain specific types.
After various attempts at crossing some of Mexico’s best imported Andalusian stallions with Quarter Horse and Criollo mares at the Domecq Center of Equine Reproduction in Texcoco, a horse displaying the desired characteristics appeared. These early crosses were given the name Azteca by some of the country’s charro association members. The charro requires a flashy horse that is not too tall but of a suitable height for colea, the taking down of a bull by its tail, a horse quick enough to keep up with the cattle and strong and balanced to throw them. The horse must be calm enough for roping, yet be agile and quick for reining in the Mexican cala. The Azteca is bred to be a perfect mount for the charro. Read the rest of this article…
Another place to look for information is :
The American Azteca Horse International Association – AAHIA
I am pleased to offer an Azteca B Gelding for Sale: “Chantico” (Angelita x Cazar) at Horse Haven at Bear Creek.
Please view his full ad in the Horse Sales page on this site.
