RG Regency Skipper Dude
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•15.3 hands
• Brunk breeding
• 9 crosses to Flyhawk!
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He's
a Cinderella!
Caught
in a frustrating legal battle, RG Regency Skipper Dude was rescued
and transformed from a skinny depressed horse to the magnificent
stallion you see below.
He was bought from Grunden
Ranch at six months by a horseman with a good eye for quality.
After his death his widow moved her five morgans from place to place
and incurred a series of stableman's leins.
REPEATELY
ABANDONED
In 2001 Dude was at the Gang Stable in training for combined driving
for over a year. Owing money, the owner abruuptly moved her horses
for an older woman, June, to care for. For TWO WEEKS! Although June
cared for them well, she could not exercise them and the owner rarely
visited. After two years, June placed a call to Gary who, having been
burned, didn't want to know any more. But he's a curious man, the
familiar story came out of abandoned horses and unpaid bills. Gary
called Katherine Graber, who knew an attorney who would help.
WE REALLY NEED A LAWYER!
The first court
date was May 5, 2004 and was followed by a series of petitions, filings,
bankruptcy proceedings, pleas, convenient confusion of the court dates,
witnesses, serving of papers, and hearings in both Federal and State
Courts. A number of times we were counting the hours, excited phone
calls to each other and biting our nails, only to hear that another
postponement had been granted. On August 5, the horses were awarded
to June. I was lucky to buy Dude.
DUDE
COMES HOME
We picked up Dude
the next day, and discovered his teeth badly need work and that was
why he had lost so much weight in addition to muscle mass from standing
in a small pen for two years.
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He
was such a sad sight.
But
you could still see his beautiful head and kind eye.
After
his teeth were done, Gary put him on a training schedule to rebuild
muscle and to get into
competetive driving form. He gained 250lbs over the next five months
and regained his bright outlook.
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After
two months, he was looking better but not fully recovered.
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THE
FINAL RESULTS AFTER MONTHS AND LOVE AND CARE
He was well
and full of himself. With his big floating extended trot, he
was
perfect as a driving horse, and as luck would have it, Gary is an
expert
at training driving horses. Isn't synchronisity wonderful?
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Dude was the son of the incomparable
Windover Regency and
the great grandson of Flyhawk, which made him
one of the closest relatives to Flyhawk today.
DUDE HAS NINE CROSSES TO FLYHAWK!
Flyhawk was known for his excellent confirmation, big floating extended
trot and good temperament.
www.thesportmorgan.org/flyhawk.htm
. Dude has inherited all these qualities. Even as a stallion, he needed
no special handling, was gentle with mares and respectful of people.
To
Dude's friends:
With great sadness and regret I put Dude down on May 7, 2005.
His founder
had progressed to the point of no return: the coffin bone had
come through the
sole on one foot. His back feet were starting to founder
He had a very happy last several months. Much of the pain
was controlled,
he got to breed a number of times (but no pregnancies), he had a
luxury stall,
even with a window that could be opened, he got out every day,
and was
fussed over, and he had lots of good things to eat. He was
greatly loved by a
number of people.
But with the progressing symptoms, the pain would be soon closing in
on him.
Even overnight, his feet had become much more painful. The vet
came and
gave him a nerve block in both front feet and a general pain killer.
I, my close
friend Ros who also loved him, and my very kind vet, walked with
him, with a
carrot every few steps, out to a beautiful rolling pasture with
a single
tree. There the vet ended his beautiful life. He is buried
under the tree.
I, and others, feel inspired by him.
Roz and her husband lost their only son to a gun accident about a year
and a
half ago. John's dream had been to breed Driftwood quarter horses and
Ros
and her husband had purchased a good Driftwood mare to carry on John's
dream.
Right after saying goodbye to Dude, we discovered that this mare
had just had
her foal, the first of John's Driftwood quarter horses. That
colt is named
"John's Driftwood Dude" and will become the foundation stallion
for their
breeding program. So Dude will be remembered.
He was a noble horse.
Linda
Update: Three weeks later, we discovered that the two mares that
Dude bred
had settled after all! We are expecting two Dude foals in
May 2006. Can you
imagine how excited we are?
Final Update in Summer 2006:
Dude's two foals were born. LMSterling Marcus was sold to Lynne Baum
vonMyer.
The other, LMSterling The Aviator,
is the living image of Dude, including his wonderful temperament and easy going
ways.
See him on the
stallion page.
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