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Actually, for
Europe, the story of Buster's Fair Leroy starts
when Mrs. Betty Sain of Bell Buckle, Tennessee,
exported a four-years old mare by her World
Grand Champion stallion Shaker's Shocker, to
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Shocker's Sweetheart, was used for recreational
riding for many years. Then her owner died and
his widow offered the mare for sale. She was
advertised in a Dutch horse periodical as
"American Strolling Horse", or in Dutch as: "Amerikaans
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Well-known
German gaited horse trainer, Walter Feldmann Jr.,
lived in the Netherlands at the time and noticed
the ad. He surely knew about gaited horse breeds
and supposed a Tennessee Walking Horse was
meant! He went and bought the mare and then used
her for breeding. However, there were virtually
no TWH stallions around, and the last foal
Walter bred from her was by an Icelandic stud!
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opportunity to buy this fine mare from Walter and
for breeding, I went to the best I could find at the
time: a direct son of Pride of Midnight H.F.,
residing in England! A friend of mine, breeder of Icelandics and Dutch Trotters, had noticed this
horse in a meadow while she was on holiday in
England. Imagine the coincidence: a Dutch lady with
much interest for gaited horses, on holiday in
England, happens to look at the only Tennessee
Walker around in England! |
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In London, two TWH's had been shown to introduce the breed to the
English people. Fine breeding stallions they surely
were: The Pusher (himself!) and Premier Delight, but
these studs returned to the U.S.A. after their
performance.
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Premier Delight |
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In 1989 Pride of
'76 was the only TWH around in all of England. From
German friends I heard about a Voice article on the
export of this stallion to England, so I got
evidence that he was a genuine TWH!
Anyway, Shocker's
Sweetheart with her colt by an Icelandic horse
travelled to England by boat. She stayed at the
court of Pride of '76 for ten weeks and returned to
the Netherlands, in foal with Pride's Dutch Dixie,
Leroy's dam!
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Portrait of Leroy and Maryan - Leroy, as gentle as a stud can be...
February 2006 - Photo by Lode Greven |
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Both Leroy's
parents are black and the chance that the color of
his grandsire Kings Delightful Lad would come
through was one in eight. The folks in the Netherlands
who were taking care of my pregnant mare, Dixie,
while I was living and working in Germany, had been
informed about the possibility of a palomino foal
but they hardly believed it. After my very yellow
colt, Leroy, was born, they stated that if they
hadn't seen the mating of Dixie and Buster, they
would have concluded that the foal was by another
sire!
Leroy grew up
happily with his dam and a German Warmblood mare.
With Dixie he made a striking picture: pitch-black
mare with yellow colt at her side! After weaning he
was raised together with a Peruvian Paso stallion of
the same age. You bet they showed each other which
gait they thought best!
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Leroy being shown at the IGV Inspection, as a yearling in 1996
photos by Lothar Lenz (www.pferdefotoarchiv.de) |
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When three years old
Leroy got his first prize: he was Champion Stallion at
the Rheinisches Pferdestammbuch and I got a big metal
plate with weapon, donated by the German city of
Wuppertal. There was another coincidence: in Wuppertal I
once rode a full brother of Buster, on a ride through
the woods.
Leroy has surely been shown at several occasions however
he doesn't have the extensive show experience of his
sire! Mostly, Leroy became my personal riding horse,
after I got myself "weaned", more or less, off riding
Buster all the time! |
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Info for
prospective breeders:
Size at the
withers: 1,54 meter
Color:
palomino (the old term for this color is yellow)
Like his sire,
Leroy is low-grade sabino and like Buster he is
also DNA tested on lethal white with as result
"negative" (which is really positive!)Leroy's
daughter Heavens Gaits April Shower is an
example of high-grade sabino.
As for Leroy's
size, it should be noted that his grandsire, Pride of
'76, was a really big horse of 1,70 meter (16 hands,
3 inches). This size may show off in Leroy's
offspring.
Leroy's breeding fee for 2010 is set at Euro 750.
For partbred foals, there is a discount for this fee.
Please find offspring information on several children of this stud under the button "progeny" above.
So, there's more good news: another son of Buster's Fair Leroy, named Pride's Dutch Doolittle, has been earning many blues at the German Championships which was held recently at the farm of the Bader family where Russ Keyser is married to Denise Bader. (Three American judges were there!)
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Breeding fee/Decktaxe:
750 Euros
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Click HERE for an illustrated, 14 generation pedigree analysis.
Busters Fair Leroy delivers a gene pool consisting of:
16.406% Midnight Sun
17.6025% Roan Allen
22.1075% Allan F-1
11.72% Wilson's Allen
8.9365% Hunter's Allen F-10
4.6875% Merry Boy |
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