Breeding Quality
Sport Morgans and Sport Morgan Ponies - in color!
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My first horse, Sir Charles
Rosario, also known as "Charlie". He is a 21 year old Anglo-Arab who
is leased out
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Stonelake
Morgans
is a small, family run Morgan farm. We are located on 56 rolling
acres in Lexington, GA, Just outside of Athens. I got my first
Morgan (Navajo Jo-Jo) when she was 12 years old. She will be
33 in June, 2006! My herd has expanded from Jo-Jo to the current
number of 15 Morgans! What a field-full! I
love each one of them, from my Stallion, Rock, to my newest foal.
My
experience with riding has been mostly with huntseat, although I
worked for a Thoroughbred race training stable and with a cutting
horse trainer for a while. I also have several years
experience as a veterinary tech. Currently my "day job" is
as a registered nurse at Athens Regional Medical Center. I
also create equine websites (go
here for more info)and I'm
hoping to go into web design full time eventually. My husband,
Scott, programs computers for a living, and is a whiz at anything
and everything computer related. He has been a great help with
the technical details.
We have 2 wonderful children, Matthew age 12 and Shanna, age 15.
They love animals too, and are growing up with their own
responsibilities in taking care of our 3 Border Collies, and our
numerous cats.
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Rock and
Shanna. Rock is a stallion, but
gentle
enough for a child to handle. He
has an amazingly
calm disposition. |
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This is my barn, my finally
Dream come True. I am currently (2005-2006) working on the interior
of the barn, I did these stall fronts from scratch myself, with a
little help here and there from my hubby, Scott. My barn has a
tack room, 5 indoor 12 x 12 stalls, 2 open air 12 x 12 stalls, a 12
" aisle, a washrack, and hay storage. It is central to 3
paddocks/pastures, to make feeding easy and convenient. I
don't stall horses unless there is a reason, such as excessive heat
or cold, an injured horse, or to have a horse ready for a show.
I believe horses are happier and healthier outdoors in a group.
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contentment. As I look out and gaze over my herd from my from porch
each evening, or, when I come home from a hard 12 hour day at work,
my contentment comes from them. Although some people would like
nothing more that going home and resting after a hard 12 hour day, I
look forward to driving up to my barn, getting out and doing my barn
chores, talking to my horses, whispering my sorrows in their ears,
sharing my frustrations, hugging their necks, kissing their muzzles,
inhaling a sweet aroma from their presence. They are grateful for a
scoop full of feed, good hay, fresh water, tender care, a sweet
scratch here and there. I feel most content in their presence. I
feel refreshed and re-energized, no longer tired after 12 hours on
my feet. They nicker their thanks, always grateful for what I
provide, never complaining.
My horses are my source of
satisfaction, my beginning to my day, and my end. I think
endlessly of them. They are my life, my joys, my friends, my
challenge, my success. For there is no other time when I feel
more accomplished that that moment when during riding, when
there is that sense of achievement when trying something more
challenging, and accomplishing it. Maybe just a good walk-trot
transition from a green horse, or a jump nicely taken. It is
that moment when I know that I have reached that moment of trust
from the mare that previously was mistreated, then I brought her
into my barn, and she shows with a lowered head and soft,
trusting eyes, that she knows she is safe from harm with me.
There is no other feeling,
than being with my horses. My life, my joy, my satisfaction, my
friends. |
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Stonelake Morgans
143 Lexington-Carlton Rd Lexington, GA 30648
706-743-5253
e-mail us at
Sue@smartcosoftware.com
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