Fire and Ice -- the story of the twelve months beginning in April of 1996 that were both wonderful and deadly here in the high plains of New Mexico.

July 30, 2007, our riding donkey, Dot, gave birth to a leggy, athletic and totally darling filly. Photos of them and the proud father here.

Pintura now has a babysitter for Tigger. Video here -->>

Bratty Tigger finally gets the entire herd playing. Video here -->>

Tigger, born May 26, 2007.

Our adorable gaited donkeys.

Videos and photos show how to tell when horses are happy, sleepy, playful, madder than heck, or flirting

Thanks to the Walkin N Circles rescue ranch, we now have two -- wait, now with the arrival of the foal, it's three! -- pleasant and well bred Paso Finos.

Photos and links about Sandi
Claypool's Spanish Mustang herd.

A Visit to Canyon de Chelly

Killer Buyer chapters:

• Livestock Crossing
• The Nag, the Cripple, and the
  Deaf Dog
• Rattlesnake Acres
• Back Country Horsemen
• Sandia's Foals
• The Ex-Stallion
• A Tale of Three Fillies
• Goat Ladies
• Dudley's Story
• Al Goes Missing Again
• Lady Gold
• The Blizzard

It's a boy! Video above shows Jake, born 6:10 AM April 28, 2008. His dam, Flaming V's Sunflower is a Choctaw Spanish mustang registered with Horse of the Americas and American Indian Horse Registry. His sire is Vikingo de Los Angeles, a registered Paso Fino, also registered with the National Single-footing Horse Association on the basis of his high speed four-beat gait. We planned this breeding to get a gaited endurance horse.

Pintura de Don Francisco, a Paso Fino, in the Classic Fino gait. In this video, she is nine months pregnant with her second foal and twelve years old. Trainer is Dacodah Herkenhoff. Click here to see her first foaling.

Above, Vikingo de Los Angeles (Viking), our Paso Fino stallion, with trainer Dacodah Herkenhoff on Pintura and his assistant, Clint, on Viking. Here Pintura is ten months pregnant and still full of energy.

Click here to see more Spanish Mustangs at one of the annual meetings of the Horse of the Americas registry.

Rowdy Yates is pictured below to the right. This stallion is arguably the most famous Spanish Mustang today. You can learn more about Rowdy Yates, and his owner, Vickie Ives (riding him here) at http://www.karmafarms.com. Her Spanish mustangs were among the models used for John Fusco's 2002 animated movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron

Rowdy Yates even has his own Breyer model.