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We are selling three gaited yearling colts out of our Paso Fino stallion, Vikingo, by our Colonial Spanish mares. You may see the colts at play with their sire and dams in the video at right. Please click here for more photos and videos.

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

  Our breeding herd at play. The bay is Vikingo de Los Angeles, the herd sire. All of the colts in this video, now yearlings, are for sale. Please click here for details.

This is how Rebecca Justice keeps our Paso Fino stallion, Vikingo, from bucking her off and also is able to make him stand still no matter how excited he is. It's Jan. 5, 2010, the temperature is way below freezing, the sun is about to set, and Vikingo is bursting with energy.

Please be careful about trying to imitate Rebecca. You have to put in plenty of time ground driving and riding to teach a horse to disengage his rear end safely like she does.

At the time of this video (Jan.16, 2010), Vikingo had been a breeding stallion for four seasons. Even worse, that day, one of the four mares in the pen with him was in heat and they almost bred before we realized it.. No problem, explained trainer Bob Allen. "This technique will work on any stallion because I keep him moving until he figures out that he has to pay attention to me and ignore the mares." In this video we were also training my donkey jenny, Dot, to be relaxed and just pay attention to her rider no matter how much excitement was going on around her. At the end of this session Bob Allen on a mare, Mike Bertin on Dot, and Rebecca Justice on Vikingo, went on a pleasant trail ride. 

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.