New Owners
10/1/01
I lost my favorite riding mare in August. It's my own fault. Oh, I had plenty of advance warning something might happen, but I discounted it as hyperbole. I disliked having her 20 miles away, but that was where the grass was. You know how it goes. They've all got to eat.
So, when one of my favorite people, Robin Haring, Trinity Horse & Pony Place, Cambria, IA, said that she'd have trouble with Pandemonium Hope in the pasture, I sort of chuckled.
"She's so pretty."
"Yep," I agreed, somewhat smugly, I admit with the clarity of hindsight.
"I just won't pet her."
"Fat chance. She won't accept that. I wouldn't worry about it. She's a lot of money."
We laughed.
A bit of time passed, and I got a call.
"I petted Hope today. I couldn't help myself."
We talked a bit about how her mother had become a youngster's special friend, going for walks on the days she couldn't ride until her death at a ripe old age. And how Hope was my purebred replacement for that dear mare.
Every day, Robin faced the battle of petting or not petting. I suspect she lost quite a few of them. Hope is just like that. She expects it as her due.
But Robin is bright and creative, and soon I got a call with an offer on a way to do the deal... One of the problems with putting prices on your friends and children substitutes. And Robin is petting her heart out, contentedly...maybe even a bit smugly, if she allows herself to feel that emotion.
And Hope is eating up the attention. Robin has a LOT of pony petters, who tend to grow up to be horse petters.
It sounds to me as if another youngster, Nicole Marden, is going to get to grow up the "Pandemonium" way. Children and horses are almost as neat a combo as children and dogs. Most of the time, horses can absorb a young girl's affections until she discovers boys.
-- SanMay 17, 2001
Hi, Sandra,
I wanted to let you know that I purchased one of your horses last fall for my daughter Nicole, 13. His registered name is Blooming Pandemonium, foaled 4/28/94.
We bought him from Lynn Gravel. It sounds as though he had primarily been used as a carriage horse in Amish country in PA by a friend of theirs who used to gallop him 5 miles to work and back every day.
Eventually, he was shipped back home to a friend of Lynn's in Harwinton, CT.
My daughter and I were looking for her first horse last fall when I saw their ad for him. Of course, with his flashy pinto coloring and handsome Arab good looks, we fell in love right away! So now he lives in Lebanon, CT, on Blue Heron Farm, and we have renamed him "Dakota". He is keeping my Egyptian Arab mare company, and they get along very well. He is very sweet and loves people and attention.
I am just getting back into horses after having 3 children, and my daughter is a relative beginner. Since we don't drive horses, Dakota is learning a fairly new vocation, as he was mostly driven and doesn't know leg aids under saddle, etc. We have a trainer nearby to help us.
Dakota seems sound and is ridden in a SMB. We still feel like we are getting to know him, but enjoy him very much.
We don't have a digital camera, but I have your address and will get around to sending you a "grown-up" picture of him.
Do you have any info on his dam? I didn't see anything on the website.
Anyway, I thought you'd like to know where one of your babies ended up. Hope to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Lynne Marden and daughter Nicole
3/15/01
A very deserving young girl, Gretchen Palmer, got a belated Christmas present when PANDEMONIUM BEAU GESTE, (Pandemonium Debut x Pandemonium Coqet), a '96 chestnut gelding, became a permanent resident on their working dairy farm. Gretchen helps milk morning and night, working far harder than most young people her age, yet maintains her grades and a willing attitude.
12/16/00
I got a call from Andrea Adkins, who with her husband Joe are the happy new owners of two hot moving, talented performance prospects with attitude, PD SINGING THE BLUES, (ROL Raven x HAAP Louise) and PANDEMONI SIN MANCHAS, Spotless in Spanish, (ROL Raven x Pandemon Canta Libre). They drove straight through from southern Iowa, with its blizzard in the works, and sleet hitting right after they pulled out with the two horses, to southern Alabama and shirt sleeves weather.
They left here about noon, and got in at five am.
When they turned onto Highway 63, about 45 miles from here, heading south to Columbia, MO, they got slightly ahead of the sleet, which chased them clear to Memphis. Originally, they had planned to go as far as St. Louis and lay over, but the bad weather just kept right on chasing them south. A helpful highway patrolman came up to them at one stop where they were getting coffee in a convenience store and asked to see what they had in the trailer. He owned Paints and QH's and was just fascinated by the colts, who are very outgoing. He told them to beat it on south of Memphis, where they would finally get free of the pending storm. They took him at his word.
Andrea said that the trailer fishtailed on them just once on an icy patch when the two colts, who were loose in the back end with no partition so they could move around and maybe even lie down, apparenty shifted. Sin turned around and rode with his head hanging out the back end, while Sing put her face in the hay and inhaled.
Both weanlings traveled well, stayed friendly and cooperative throughout the trip, and seemed to take the trip and all the changes in stride.
Sing took right over when they turned them loose after walking them around the pasture to show them the fences. They board a 14 year old TWHBA gelding and a 5 year old mare. Of course, they tower over the two weanlings, and probably always will.
But SING had evolved into the boss dog in the weanling pen, and she marched over to the gelding, sniffed his nose, promptly pinned her ears and BIT him. She proceeded to bite the mare, too, and even kicked at the gelding when he did not submit at once. Miss Queen Bee! Who would have thought! She's 9 months old. But, of course, she grew up in a herd with a stallion, boss mares (which her dam was NOT) and all, so knew how to take charge.
She and Sin ignored the hay, going at once for the green grass. They were tractable when led around to see the fences, and once turned loose, came back up to the people readily. Sin tucked his head under Andrea's arm. He will have been weaned twoweeks tomorrow, and was really quite a momma's boy. He follows Sing around
now as if SHE is his dam.
When they were in the stalls meeting Andrea and Joe, she kept trying to suck on him as if he were her dam. I think they will get along well together, as long as he never tries to be boss.
Sing, who got jealous and took my coat sleeve in her mouth when I was introducing Sin to Andrea, is now getting the love she has been missing since Dusty had to give her up. She's really just been longing to be someone's special somebody. She figured out real quickly that Andrea is now it for her. In the stall, I watched as her radar told her I used to be the boss mare, the important one in her life, but that this new lady was taking over now. It is amazing how quickly they seem to know. Sin appears to be an "any port in a storm" horse, making up to more than one person. He was to be Joe's special project, but he also accepts Andrea as "surogate momma".
I always breath a sigh of relief when horses from here adopt their new owners and fit themselves into the new situation. Generally it takes a bit longer than it did with these two. They will sure have A LOT MORE HAIR than they need where they are now!
Andrea said she felt buying the two foals was the start of an 18-20+ year committment. The Pandemonium Adoption Agency couldn't be more pleased.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 07:13:56 -0600
I have acquired a
ROL RAVEN foal in Nov. '98. CHURCH HILL KALYPSO
is a bay '98 purebred model out of a bay mare--SEL KAMINE
(SUZIE)--I believe you had her on a lease from a woman
in WI.
I would like more info on his sire. He is good size now, but
SUZIE is so small--wondered what she threw for you guys -
also any pintos for sale? I love my colt--he's so sweet! Thanks
ahead for the info!
Jamie
Sandra Hugus wrote: "SEL KAMINE (KAMIM) is 14.2 and a very broad-chested mare. She had one foal here, by PANDEMONIUM DEBUT, who was exceedingly small. Her first foal, an inbred foal by IBN KAMIM, was also tiny. DEBUT has never had a small foal before, or since. RAVEN is 15 hands, and has thrown some quite tall stock here.
"Pressing on the blue link will take you to the write-up on
ROL RAVEN with photos. From there, you can get to a listing of his foals, with some more photos."
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