This colt is a dream come true.  We lost his sire to a pack of wild dogs in February, 2006, and had only a limited number of foals due, and had lost several of them.  Mardi Gras is our smallest mare and this is her first foal.  I was anxiously awaiting the arrival of this one and had told my wife and our help that at the first sign of any problem to get her to the vet for a c-section because I wanted this foal alive!  Around noon she laid down as I was starting to show horses to some visitors and she had a textbook delivery!  Looking for a special name for him, it dawned on me that "the second" or Junior was the obvious choice.  We will be testing him to see if he is homozygous because he exhibits the signs that I look for.  (Update:  the results are back and he is homozygous)

His dam is, as I noted, our smallest mares and is one of our special "private collection" and he will be heading up part of that group later, hopefully.  Mardi Gras is a daughter of our Orion son, Mr It, and her dam is a favorite of everyone here.

He was quite a hit at the Texas State FFA Convention as a foal, too!

He has joined our breeding stallions in 2008.  Here he is meeting his mares and his neighbors April 30, 2008.  Looks like he thinks he is the "big man on campus", but the palomino next door is only 32". 

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