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Sugar as a youngster, April 9, 2004, winter coat
She was exactly 14H, barefoot, with a stick,
and 850 lbs by a weight tape, back then.
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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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Pictures below are in chronological order:
most recent at top, oldest at bottom.
As of May, 2009 She's topping 1000 lbs regularly; she might be fat, but I
think she has put on still more muscle, too. I can't find any 2009
pictures of her, yet.
 This handsome
young cowboy with Sugar is my son. And yes, girls, he's still available...
October 2008=>
 Solomon rides
bareback with just a halter if possible
August 2008:
Click these thumbnails to see some August 2008 pics of a ride Joe was about
to have. Some of the pictures are very large. The saddle and bridle Joe's
using here are not Sugar's usual tack; they're his lightweight synthetic saddle,
a bridle he got at Equine Affaire with a matching saddle, and a bit he got
recently to use for his "one-rein stops":
July 2008 =>  I put my
best
riding student on her. The girl still prefers Amir (see link.)
April 2008:
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've 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. She weighs just under 1,000 as
mentioned above.
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 April...
March 2009
This was what they called "the blizzard of 2008". The snow drifted so
much from the wind that you can't tell how much we actually got. We had left the horses
in their stalls during the storm, and when we turned them out the next day they
were still muddy from before the snow. But the snow was soooo pretty...
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: 
Here's a picture I found on my camera of her in the winter of
2007. Pretty...dirty!
2004 : The pictures and text in this table are from 2004,
when Sugar was about 3 years old.
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I enjoyed riding her bareback, just because I could. She didn't
neck rein yet, so when I had only one lead on her halter, I could only turn
her in that direction! She later picked up neck reining quickly.
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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!
(and I was right.)
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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.)
(arrows added by me to show possible dun striping)
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 to "Sugar Champagne Lace".
Sugar's 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.
(arrows added by me to show possible dun striping)
