What can I say about Callie?  Oh geez, she is one hunk of mare.  We all have had those easy keepers and Callie is my easy keeper.  She's a flat 14 hands.  She's a grade mare by registered MFT stallion, Perfection's Black Magic B and her dam was a fine figure of a mare that was also champagne in color and was said to be pure foxtrotter.  Callie's dam was bought by a man in Lebanon, Mo. who told me he bought "Babe" from a horse trader and the story was that she bought several purebred foxtrotters from an old man in Arkansas that refused to register them because they were odd colored.   She also told him they were Sensation and Governor bred.  Babe was bred to Perfection's Black Magic B and Callie was born.  I found her in a small ad in the weekly trader, 4 year old buckskin foxtrotter mare...........

When I called, the man was abrupt and a bit rude.  After a bit he softened and told me how rude people were that had called earlier.  When asked about registration papers and he told them she was a grade mare they either hung up in his ear or chewed him out about the ad and wasting their time.  I told him I didn't care as long as she was a good mare.

 

When I arrived, I knew this mare was not buckskin.  I had never seen a champagne colored horse in person but this mare wasn't just colored she was awesome.  She is built like a tank, soft and easy to be around and traveled out nice for a mare that only had a couple rides on her.  She didn't look small to me but when I measured her, she was just 14 hands.  Her first job was to produce a gaited mule foal and she did just that, an amber champagne molly and did I ever love this foal, she was mine.  We lost her tragically after a trainer abused her badly enough that she had to be euthanized.  We will breed her again someday for another mule but for now, we will have a couple pony foals from Callie.