| Dodge is a delight to have. He is put together well and has a lot of personality. He should make an awesome barrel horse as well as be suitable for English/Hunter Jumper. Update: 4/2/08 Tricia, working with a top level trainer over the last two months, has been finishing Dodge's barrel training. See new video below! Our students are amazed when we tell them that he is a stallion. Very quiet ground manners as well as docile and obedient. Dodge had barely been handled when we brought him home as a yearling colt. It took four people just to get him into our trailer. Now he just hops right in. Dodge is a registered Breeding Stock Paint, which are becoming very popular to paint breeders right now trying to improve their color, markings and lines. His grandsires on both sides are champions, Moon Lark (half brother to Bugs Alive in 75), and Special Effort (sire of Bully Bullion). Both champions, They go back to Top Moon, Moon Deck, Top Deck, Native Dancer! Plus Many Many more awesome horses, most still on his papers! You get the picture! This colt is outstanding in his breeding! Not much breeding left like this. We will be keeping him a stallion, but as sweet as this little horse is, we don't see him being any trouble to turn into an awesome barrel horse. Since Dodge is 7/8 quarter horse, but registered as a paint this is a good way for paint breeders to improve bloodlines without having to breed to a quarter horse, educated breeders know he would be ideal to breed to homozygous tobiano mares, or overo/tovero mares that are throwing foals with a lot of white. He will be able to add in the color, markings and the breeding, without throwing a solid paint, as you would more then likely get breeding to a registered Quarter Horse. |
| Tricia has had Dodge under saddle for two weeks (click on photos to enlarge). Left photo taken 4/23/06 with Tricia. |
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| DODGE'S PATERNAL GRANDSIRE SPECIAL EFFORT (Pictured above) Winnings of $1.2 Million World Champion History's only 2 year old AQHA Triple Crown Winner #3 Active All-Time Sire of Money Earners ($17.9 Million) #3 All-Time Leading Broodmare Sire ($23 Million) Sire of Bully Bullion |
| DODGE'S MATERNAL GRANDSIRE MOON LARK (Pictured above) Winnings totalling $859,356 Won the 1978 All American Futurity 1978 Champion racing 2YO & 2YO colt; 1979 Racing World Champion, 1980 Champion 3YO colt & Champion 3YO. Half Brother to Bugs Alive in 75 |
| Dodge is giving his first riding lesson. (Pictured above) (See more pictures and info below.) |
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| Above: First time student Candy getting Dodge's first lesson with Tricia. Candy has a three-year-old horse of her own that she is having issue's with. She is a non-beginner that came to us to get help. |
| Below: October 2007. Dodge has turned out to be so docile, well-behaved and gentle that we decided to start using this THREE-YEAR-OLD RACING BRED STALLION for lessons for adults who understand what a stallion is. (See photos below) |
| Above: Tricia is working on Candy's seat today so Candy is using a bareback pad with no stirrups. This could not be done on a horse that was not very well trained. |
| Above: Dodge quietly pays attention to this new person on his back while Tricia gives instruction. |
| Above: Candy is doing great so we let her ride around on her own a little. Candy said she learned a lot today and that she could not wait to come to her lesson next week. |
| Above: We have been hearing from our students that some people think we are crazy for using young horses like this in lessons. What most people don't understand is that we train our own horses. Most instructors do not have the ability to do this. They buy horses from other people and they just have to take what they get. Our horses are our best advertisers as to our training abilities here at M-Bar-K Farms. We enjoy teaching others to have the most enjoyable experience possible with their horses no matter what age or sex. |
| Above three photos April 13, 2008 Dodge and Tricia at the Destry's Free 4 All at the Diamond W Arena in Alvarado, TX Belt Buckle won by Dodge (middle photo) and April 27, 2008 Terrell Benefit 5-D, Terrell, TX (lower photo) Click to enlarge Click here to see video's of his runs! |
| Click Here to see some highlights of Dodge's First Show Season! |
| Dodge is a delight to have. He is put together well and has a lot of personality. He should make an awesome barrel horse as well as be suitable for English/Hunter Jumper. Update: 4/2/08 Tricia, working with a top level trainer over the last two months, has been finishing Dodge's barrel training. See new video below! Our students are amazed when we tell them that he is a stallion. Very quiet ground manners as well as docile and obedient. Dodge had barely been handled when we brought him home as a yearling colt. It took four people just to get him into our trailer. Now he just hops right in. Dodge is a registered Breeding Stock Paint, which are becoming very popular to paint breeders right now trying to improve their color, markings and lines. His grandsires on both sides are champions, Moon Lark (half brother to Bugs Alive in 75), and Special Effort (sire of Bully Bullion). Both champions, They go back to Top Moon, Moon Deck, Top Deck, Native Dancer! Plus Many Many more awesome horses, most still on his papers! You get the picture! This colt is outstanding in his breeding! Not much breeding left like this. We will be keeping him a stallion, but as sweet as this little horse is, we don't see him being any trouble to turn into an awesome barrel horse. Since Dodge is 7/8 quarter horse, but registered as a paint this is a good way for paint breeders to improve bloodlines without having to breed to a quarter horse, educated breeders know he would be ideal to breed to homozygous tobiano mares, or overo/tovero mares that are throwing foals with a lot of white. He will be able to add in the color, markings and the breeding, without throwing a solid paint, as you would more then likely get breeding to a registered Quarter Horse. |