A few of Twice Royal's foals:
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April 1 2004 colt - Twice Royal x Holly Mayo by Gay Bar
King
Unnamed, 19 days old in this shot
As I mentioned on Twice Royal's page, Holly was gotten to
cross with aging Twice Royal. She's a little on the geriatric
side herself, full of cysts and *when* a foal can find a spot
to implant, she won't keep it without Regumate.
Making a longer story short, we eventually got her pregnant,
and are pleased enough to do it again. But- she didn't cooperate
this year, and all in all, it does seem worth getting the
cysts lasered out. Oh, well, it's
"only" more vet bills...
Anyway, this little fellow has his
own page with more pictures - one of Holly, too.
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2004 filly, foaled June
21 so far unnamed
Twice Royal x Lucky Contadina by King McConnell
Photo taken Aug 14, 7 weeks old
She'll also get a page of her own, but not tonight. I notice
farther down this page a comment from several years ago about
"Contra" being hard to settle - well, did it again,
and I am pleased with the baby.
(And pleased with the new camera too - quite a difference between
this and some of my old pictures. This shot was taken in the
evening, and even so retains acceptable detail after brightening
in Picture Publisher.) |
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| Incidentally, she has an older brother
too. I haven't bothered with photos of him yet, but thought
I'd mention that this filly makes number four of this same cross.
Each has four comparatively close crosses back to King, all
HERDA free, which is no surprise. HERDA is something that exists
mainly in the minds of people who don't have much actual experience
with animals of this breeding. Roughly 200 cases out of several
*million* registered Quarter Horses - go figure the odds. You
are clearly more likely to be run over by a garbage truck than
to ever even *see* a horse affected by HERDA. We never have,
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2004 colt - Twice
Royal x Miss Colonel Boone by Colonel Freckles
Unnamed, and again I'll have to check
the foaling date - probably around 60 days here.
He also
has a page, but the download is *really* long because he
is offered for sale, and I assume that people looking for that
reason would prefer many pictures and large ones rather than
a faster loading page. |
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2001 filly by Twice
Royal, out of "Contra" (Lucky
Contadina) who is by King
McConnell, a double grandson of King
P-234. The filly is almost four weeks old in these shots.
She was a little sharper than she appeared in these shots -
if she matures as we hope she will be kept for breeding in the
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| (right) 10 weeks
old here. A close look in the shadow shows that the left hind
is forward, reverse of the ideal conformation pose, although
she has enough hip to look decent this way too. I like this
one quite a bit - active, athletic, and ambitious. She's rather
like dad when he was this age.
I am delighted to say [speaking
in 2001] that there is (finally) a little brother
or sister on the way. Her mother is incredibly hard to get
in foal, and is now in her 20's, so I had doubts.
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| She is about 15 months
in this picture - coming out of a kind of "weedy" stage, thankfully.
That head is an interesting blend of both parents - dad's
face stretched onto mom's head. It won't win a halter class,
but it's the rest of her that matters to me, and I'm fairly
well pleased with that. There is a larger
copy of this picture, and another taken at the same time. [Now,
Aug. 2004, it really is time that I get some recent pictures
and provide her a page of her own]
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| 2002 Twice Royal colt at 3 months,
out of Dry Playgirl. As usual, not great pictures - he came
together a little better and balanced than these would indicate.
He was sold not long after, and I haven't seen him since. |
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| (above) 2001 filly at ten weeks.
She is out of REO
Classy Lena, by REO Lena, who in turn is by Doc O'Lena,
and out of Lucky Libra. Libra was out of Mimi
Warner, Twice Royal's maternal grandmother, so the lines
top and bottom are very close. These pictures were attached
to an e-mail in which her owner describes the filly as having
"looks, disposition, and physical ability". She adds that it
is hard to get a picture because she is "very active". [Now,
August 2004, she is with Dave McGregor, and I just shipped to
her mom, who is no spring chicken, and has been ovulating irregularly.
She looked like a breeder at last, and hopefully we'll put another
like this one on the ground next year.] |
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| (above) 2002 filly out of Featured
An Angel in Texas. (I didn't know that they had any trees
or grass there - thought it was all dry wind and sagebrush to
the horizon.) Anyway, I don't remember her age in these
shots - she is still on her mother. The back looks longer when
the head is down, (left) and there is a focal length
exaggeration of the head on the right, but piecing it together,
she seems like a promising baby. She is evidently another "active"
one - I recall her owners mentioning that at a few weeks of
age she routinely upset her protective mother by taking off
to see the world. |
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Twice Royal x Just Doc's
Socks
Three days old at right, and not looking too brilliant just
then. (He steadily improved while we
had him.) "Justy" is (was, actually - now
deceased) the dam of Masteroni, and Caroline bought her with
the intention of producing a Pablo
San daughter or two for breeding to Twice Royal and "Lucky
C". She got nothing but stud colts, naturally. While Twice
Royal is man enough for it, we doubt they would get in foal. |
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is getting older, and it seemed better to go the direct route,
producing - again - a stud colt.
Here he is again, (at right) maybe getting toward
ten months then, and looking better - not a flattering shot,
and in his winter woolies, but even so, he's coming together.
He was sold not long after, and last I heard was living in
Kansas.
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Twice
Royal Katy - out of "Katy" (Lucky Kay Burnett) She
is around two, two and a half in these pictures. I suppose that
chrome comes from the Buz Burnett part of the family tree -
it was a bit of a surprise.
Parenthetically, I was mystified by that tendency in the Twice
Royal foals until a fellow pointed out that, after all, Doc
Bar was a sorrel with plenty of chrome, and he's not so far
back. Sure enough. Every time I looked up the family tree my
eye went toward Poco Lena, King, Lucky Blanton and so on, overlooking
Doc Bar altogether. |
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| This one is out of a
mare that Caroline picked up a few years ago, something or another
Dry Playgirl, known to me as "Flicka" - among other things.
In the shot on the right the filly is +/- one year old, the
ones below were taken a little later. They come out of a video
that I took using a poor grade of film, and can't get much detail
out of. |
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| This one, about a year
old, was out of another daughter of Lucky Blanton that was purchased
some while after the original one died. This mare proved to
be less than a perfect replacement for the other - despite being
similar in appearence, the second mare was simply not the kind
of producer her older half sister had been. We tried her with
a variety of studs, looking for the best cross, and all in all,
this may have been it. |
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| This one is out of Eternal
Dee Bar, x Eternal Sun. (I do remember the mares
I liked) I was sorry that Caroline chose to sell her. She had
burned out in training, (good trainer, but maybe a little
too much pressure - knowing when and how to back off is one
of the differences between the good and the great) and Caroline
had many horses at the time. He was sold and went
lame after making the first cut at the futurity. He developed
into something fairly impressive, although I must confess, he
took more after mom than dad. I saw him awhile ago, a somewhat
tough and capable looking animal - his owner described him as
"a cow eating son of a gun". |
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