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Rocky Mountain/Kentucky Mountain

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I have scanned many threads and have yet to find one dedicated to photos of just this breed. They are pretty rare here in the north yet seem to be picking up. I have a friend who got me into them and they have turned into Jays Potato Chips for me ~ you can't have just one. Here are the pics of my kids, all of them Rockies, soon to be registered under the Kentucky Mountain registry since both are pretty much the same and I am too cheap to be a member of both :D

All colors all sizes are welcome ~ I just love some of the beautiful shades these guys produce ~ also if you have gaiting videos would love to see them, just amazes me how these horses move along with their intelligence and love of humans. Yes I know there are a few exceptions, but isn't that true with every breed.

Also do you do any showing with them?? Sire/dam would be interesting too, but grades are welcome too. I mean they all pretty much came from Tobe didn't they?

Well here are my pics such as they are:

Ima Dollfie Doll (aka Dolly) 20 year old - Black - RMH/KMHA reg. grade mare. She has some beautiful babies on the ground from her previous owner, now she's my Been There Done That trainer for the new kids.



V.B.F. Call Me the Breeze (aka Mac) 2 year old - Black - RMH reg. gelding
(Sire: Ventures Black Fury Dam: Brandys Miss Priss)





Phoebe's Smokin' Sam (aka Smokey) 6 mo. old - chocolate colt - will be KMSHA registered. (Sire: Sam I Am Dam: Phoebe)



 
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My girls are all Rocky/KY horses. I love them crazy :D
First is Saro, she is 3yo and daughter of Vida. She has been started under saddle. She just had a bath in that pic so she is spotty, plus she is faded from the summer sun.
Next is Shiloh at 3 yo she is also started under saddle. Shes a big girl at 16h. and the daughter of Sassafras
Vida and Sassafras (fras) are our regular riding mares. Vida is the black in my avitar and Fras is the sorrel pictured
 

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Wow, Rockies come in chestnut? Did not know that.
 
#6 ·
anything thats doesnt have white on the body or excessive white on the face or above the knees...and that includes Creamello and Isabella as well...Rockies arnt just known for Choco/Flax anymore...

Charmins White Cloud- Stud



MT Fire Walker- Stud


Roxie- Mare


Rockin-Rolla (Red Chocolate Colt) Hopefully your 2010 Confo Champ for RMHA and Kentucky Mountain


Cloud agian at RMHA International as a 4yr old


BO


Besides working for FSA, Rocky Mountain Horses are....my life!!! LOL they have seen many girlfriends come and go and as time passes they are always there...Im glad Im finally at an age when I can take them and run with it, and earn some respect.

Nate
 
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oh yea blood lines:

Charmins White Cloud- Amigo's Blue x Millers Rockie (owned by old man Sewells so Im told)

Bo- Blue Smokin' ***** x Grade Mare

Roxie- Nick Mare (dam to Rockin Rolla)

Rocky (Rockin-Rolla)- The Right Stuff x Roxie

MT Fire Walker- Nuncio x Velvet C. (Sewells Sam Mare) 55% Tobe (HARD TO FIND!!)

Our other stud (pic was way to big to post) is out of French's Stormy (sire to Storm Warning) and he's a full brother to PTs Stone Cold....

and about 10 others LOL

I like to stick with the older bloodlines, but in todays age of Rocky Mountain Horses its not getting you very far...You have to breed to stepping horses that show good...Trail Horses arnt selling, and people that buy trail horses usually dont care about lines...

We show as often as we can, since getting out of school i found i have a lot more time for it....Last year we got on a tack store sponsered show and my Classic Gelding and I took 4/5 firsts and 1 2nd...next year with time off built up at work I will be showing in the RMHA Kentucky Shows and a majority of the KMSHA shows...

this might be my last long post on here lolol

Nate
 
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Just gorgeous! Yes Sunny06, they come in all colors. We have a friend who has a champagne mare and baby. She has the most beautiful greenish golden eyes, I forget what color they are called. Other people we know have a cremello stud who throws big beautiful babies in many different colors just as all other breeds do.
I know a farm that has a beautiful roany color mare that carries the silver gene. She is a showstopper and so is her price. :lol:

hccumminssmoke, I love Cloud, he has breathtaking color in this picture! and RockinRolla is a beauty in the making. VERY pretty face on that boy.

And Vidaloco ~ Lovely family. I am hoping my boy grows to Saro's color, that dapple coloring is wonderful.
 
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MT Fire Walker- Nuncio x Velvet C. (Sewells Sam Mare) 55% Tobe (HARD TO FIND!!)



I like to stick with the older bloodlines, but in todays age of Rocky Mountain Horses its not getting you very far...You have to breed to stepping horses that show good...Trail Horses arnt selling, and people that buy trail horses usually dont care about lines...


Nate[/QUOTE]

Yes, I know about the trail riders not caring, but they should. When a horse shows well in confirmation, pleasure and/or competitive trail you know what type of horse you're getting. That is why I snapped up our chocolate colt, he has several old bloodlines in him and his dam carries some too. It was well worth it as this boy is gaiting in the pasture at 6 months old. Goes straight from walk to gait to canter. Much easier to have a baby that already knows what gait is then trying to train it into them as I know some have had to do with some of the newer bloodlines.
 
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My Rocky isn't registered, but I don't care about that for a trail horse... She's my avatar...

She was the chocolate and flaxen when her previous owner got her, but she's a beauty of a palomino now... And she's got the cutest dapples.... Ok, I'm more then a little biased...
 
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[/quote]Yes, I know about the trail riders not caring, but they should. When a horse shows well in confirmation, pleasure and/or competitive trail you know what type of horse you're getting. That is why I snapped up our chocolate colt, he has several old bloodlines in him and his dam carries some too. It was well worth it as this boy is gaiting in the pasture at 6 months old. Goes straight from walk to gait to canter. Much easier to have a baby that already knows what gait is then trying to train it into them as I know some have had to do with some of the newer bloodlines.[/quote]

I agree that's why we breed naturally gatied SSHs...lol. They gait by the time they are four or five days old. I would love to get a rocky someday. My mom wants to get a registered one and do competitive trail riding.
 
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In a way, yes. Someone took an abnormally smoothe horse and bred it to another smoothe horse, whose offspring bred with another and another until the gait become prominant. This is how the gaited horse came into being (or at least I think so). So yes. In a nutshell, it originated from the genetics, you could say.

It's 100% natural. Nothing to worry about. Gunsmoke has a bad gait (he mostly trots) and nothing we've tried for him to gait properly ever lasted long. Always wondered why he didn't gait UNTIL the dishonest sellers told us he was a TWH/Sadlebred/Paso Mix 3 YEARS AFTER WE HAD BOUGHT HIM. Yeah. :evil: I guess the Saddlebred in him was too prominate ('Breds have to be trained to gait mechanically).
 
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Here's my new Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse. All of the Rockies around here seemed spindly or small to me, and I was very happily surprised when this sturdy boy showed up. He's nicely gaited and gorgeous to boot! His mom was a Tennessee Walker without papers, so he was registered Ky. Mtn.

Horse Mammal Bridle Vertebrate Rein
 
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my best friend of all, Rocky (yes. I didn't name him, don't blame me D= hehe)
he is a 12 y/o gelding. 13.3hh...for some reason.
because of his size as I grew older it was only fair for me to sell him to buy a horse that was a more appropriate size for me. he is now back with the same friend I bought him from to be ridden by her younger grandchildren.

not sure what's with him, but he only gaits once in a blue moon. I asked a former gaited trainer friend of mine and she suggested that he may have actually been trained NOT to gait. ?!!
anyway, here's the man himself:









 
#25 ·
That sometimes can be a reason why they aren't gaiting. Sometimes if they are a bit pudgy you will have trouble getting them to gait. Nothing to worry about with height 13.3 is an old line height. I see full size men riding the small sizes and yet they don't look odd on them. They are bred to carry 180 - 200 pounds even for their small size.

Very pretty boy.

Gorgeous KMSHA MuleWrangler, another palomino! My 20 year old grade mare was listed with the RMH when I bought her, but I transferred her over to KMSHA since I am registering everyone with them. Dolly has a lot of Tennessee Walker in her. You can tell by the rambling walk that she has. Huge overstride that really gives you back flex. :lol:
 
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I love their chocolate colors. I've ridden one gaited horse I hated it, but I also had no idea what he was actually doing lol. They look so small. Im used to a stocky little qh or paint. I'm sure Id have no problem riding one, physically, I am pretty small myself, but in my mind I just think these guys are ponies.
 
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They come in all sizes, from the 13.3 pony size up to 16 hands tall. Our friends had a buckskin gelding that was 16 hands. When they get that tall they can resemble other breeds so you may have seen one and not even known it was a RMH. All mine are in the 15.1 and 15.2 range.
 
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