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Sugar as a youngster
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Sugar Champagne Lace ("Sugar")
2001 AQHA, IQPA, ICHR filly
Amber cream
HER PEDIGREE (after the first page, scroll down
for her generation 4 through 8 pedigrees.)
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The picture above (and those in
the 2004 table, below) were taken on April 9,
2004, when she still had her winter coat, but had had her mane & tail
thinned, trimmed and shampooed to show off the darker colored layers more
effectively. She was exactly 14H, barefoot with a stick with a level in it, and
850 lbs by a weight tape, back then.
As of 4/11/08 she had matured to
14.3 H (while long in the hoof) and nearly 1,000 lbs (by the weight tape, which
seems to usually read low!) She will turn 7 on May 17, 2008.
Pics on this page are in this order:
most recent at top, oldest at bottom.
April 17, 2008:
(Wow, I hadn't updated this page since 2004! ) In exactly
one month she'll be 7 years old, and has matured into a "real horse". What
does that mean? Well, for one thing, I'd been calling her "my little
filly" for far too long... now that she's 7, she's definitely a grown-up horse
-- a mare. But also, she was a late bloomer, like our Doc, and just
finished *growing* recently -- in need of a hoof trim she's 14.3 H, which means
that after the trip she'll still be bigger than pony size. So, no Quarter
Pony registration for her, after all! And She weighs just under 1,000 as
mentioned above.
Pics from two days before her 6th birthday, in May 2007, after a bath
with dark blue shampoo! Some of these were meant to illustrate the "swirly"
coloring that many dark-pointed champagne horses have on their lower legs.
The next week I took one to show her dished, etc. profile:
Then there was what they called "the blizzard of 2008", which drifted so
much from the wind you can't tell how much we actually got. We left the horses
in their stalls, for a change, and when we turned them out the next day they
were still muddy from before the snow. But the snow was soooo pretty...
And finally, after thoroughly confusing her previously, we taught her that
it was all right to canter under saddle. Solomon was riding her when it
finally sank in on April 15, 2008, and then the next day one of my previous
riding students did it. Here is a video capture of it:
That's old Amir grazing, and me at the bottom of the hill.
And the short video of her cantering, taken by her dad on my non-video
camera, is here (hope this works, it's my first video on a web site, AFAIK).
She breaks into a trot at the top of the hill.
OK, I can't get it to work yet. Let's try it this way:
Click here to see the .mov video. I
hope. Yay! I did it! So, that's all for now...
The pictures and text in this table are from 2004
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I enjoy riding her bareback, just because I can. She doesn't
neck rein yet, so when I have only one lead on her halter, I can only turn
her in that direction!
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I trained her, using treats, to bend her neck around to whichever
shoulder I tap.
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A pause. Please excuse my casual, slightly tilted seat. I
think she is nicely muscled, though she still has a very immature build
for nearly 3. When she finishes I think she will be a compact tank!
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This is a combination "how I trimmed her mane and tail" and
overall body shot. Sometimes it looks like she has a wonderfully
sloping shoulder!
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Other side. I trimmed the top, white/yellow layer off her tail
and trimmed the bottom sun-bleached ends off, too.
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Just a rump/tail shot. Shows the frequently-observed champagne
dorsal shading. I only removed some of the white/yellow hair because
she looked like palomino or perlino, and I wanted to show her true amber
cream coloring better.
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Very revealing mane shot, though unflattering to the filly herself.
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This is a little game we play when we are both bored with
round-penning.
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Sometimes she plays it more enthusiastically than others!
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Summer of 2003, below; she's a 2 year old here:
(That last one is HUGE. I'm including the under-tail shot for educational
purposes... here is a 2 year old amber champagne + cream. I think it's
amazing that her tail skin, though sprouting a good bit of brownish hair, is an
un-freckled shade of pink!)
Pictures in the row below were all taken by the Van Zees in
South Dakota in May 2002, at exactly one year of age.
And here are my favorite foal imprinting pictures of her, also from the Van
Zees.
I've included her dam, Lace of Savage.
Sugar is appendix AQHA. Her dam is racing bred, goes back to Go Man Go, and goes back to King and Three Bars
each numerous times. Sugar has the quiet disposition and also the coloring of her sire,
Sugars Uno ("Cane")
(click name/link or see pics below.) (These pics are a bit overexposed, I
think.)
They tell me he is the fastest horse on the ranch! He
has numerous lines back to Skipper W (Nick Shoemaker).
Apart from all that performance in her pedigree, Sugar should throw
about 50% champagne foals, and when you add the cream gene in we'll have a 75%
chance of dilute color every time.
She was originally registered as "Sunny Champagne Lace", but I
changed her name last year to "Sugar Champange Lace".
DOB: 5/17/01
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(That last one is HUGE. I'm including the under-tail shot for educational
purposes... here is a 2 year old amber champagne + cream. I think it's
amazing that her tail skin, though sprouting a good bit of brownish hair, is an
un-freckled shade of pink!)
I've included her dam, Lace of Savage.
