Category Archives: Events

Events, SW News

Back to Pagosa Springs

We made the migration  back to Pagosa Springs in early May!  We love coming here for the great weather, the chance for the horses to be in a natural herd and all the unspoiled beauty that is Pagosa!

Almost immediately, we left for New England, but we returned by the end of May to catch up and start putting things in order for the summer.

This summer, we planned clinics and a few photo shoots.  Stay tuned for dates!

  •   Ned Leigh teaching Advanced Riding Skills, June or September.
  •  Photo shoot in June.
  • And Dr Laura Patterson teaching Marchador gaits mid-August, around August 14.  Laura is here studying at Cornell this summer, if we are lucky and we think we will be, Dr Ann Staiger will also come and share some of her research on gait genetics.
  • A fun summer here, and we are also planning a trip to Brasil in July!

Please join us!  Meet a Marchador horse or try a Sensation saddle!

Other SW news!

Congratulations to Major Jeff Bosley who retired from the Air Force in May.   We are happy because now Jeff will have even more time to devote to his passion as a SW MM breeder!   Jeff and Michelle Bosley operate SW Future Foal Lumbbridge In NC.   Find them on FB!

Congratulations to Cathy, new owner off Destiny do Summerwind.  Destiny was conformed pregnant to Talisma Kafe using his frozen imported semen!

Congratulations to new marchador owner, Karen, who purchased Jorge Ben de Lazy T, a MM gelding with our help and the wondeful cooperation of the owner to complete the details while Karen was abroad.

Our combined efforts with Flying Oaks and Nickers Saddlery at the Mane Event and on other fronts are paying off too.   Flying Oaks Wizard and Flying Oaks Stardust have been sold!   Another new MM in AZ and a MM in Alberta Canada.   We are thrilled for the new owners and Rick and Dana!

Did I forget something?   Send us your news or story and I will publish!

Education, Events

The Mane Event – Canada, here we come!

It’s the largest equine trade show in Canada and we will be there!   April 26-28 in Red Deer Alberta Canada!  We hope to meet you there.  Booth G-6 and also speaking in the LECTURE HALL.

For more information on the EVENT, follow this link:  http://www.maneeventexpo.com/RedDeer/Default.aspx

Click here to download the Marchador brochure we made for the show!  MM BROCHURE 

We are going to promote the Marchador breed and here is why.  In a cooperative effort, Summerwind Marchadors, Flying Oaks Ranch and Nickers Saddlery are pooling resources to promote the Marchador breed in Canada.   Summerwind is a distributor of Nicker’s Saddles, the treeless Sensation Saddles here in the U.S.

From our press release:   In April, the population of Mangalarga Marchador horses in Canada almost doubled in April with the importation of 4 new Marchadors into British Columbia from Flying Oaks Ranch of Kaw City Oklahoma!

 

Some of the new Marchadors will be trained, shown and offered for sale by Dana Johnsen of Nickers Saddlery, Penticton, B.C.    Nickers will be adding the Marchador horse into their product line and promoting the Marchador breed in Canada!  The grand opening of this collaboration between Flying Oaks Ranch, Summerwind and Nickers Saddlery will be at the Mane Event in Red Deer, AB April 26-28, 2013.  

 

 

Events, SW News

SW Update – 2012 SW Award Winners!

We couldn’t be happier that this year’s big winner was Rox Rogers and La Paz Jivago from Haras Cayuse, MT.   Congratulations, Rox and Jivago!    (wild cheering and clapping!) 

 

Rox and Jivago earned 9 points and thus won the top prize awarded in 2012 of $300.
  • Five Western Dressage events = 5 points
  • Three top three finishes for an additional 3 points 
  • One parade event for 1 point

 Western Dressage blends traditional Western riding and attire with Classical Dressage and good horsemanship.  The goal is to have a strong balanced horse that responds happily to the rider’s cues with lightness in both the horse and the rider.   Any breed may compete in Western Dressage.  If you have never heard of Western Dressage and want to know more, Rox wrote about it in more detail for the USMMA Fall Journal and she’d be happy to talk to you about how well her Marchador geldings are doing in this discipline!

Rox is an accomplished horsewoman who always keeps learning!  She owns three Mangalarga Marchador horses.  SW imported La Paz Jivago as a stallion in 2004.  He is a very beautiful, very athletic metallic dunskin.   After freezing semen for our breeding program, he was gelded and is happily living life with Rox in MT.

 

Other SW Marchadors earning points and winning fame and fortune included:
  • Amadeus do Summerwind & Kristy Everson in Mounted Shooting and Barrel Racing.  Amadeus without Kristy in a parade and team roping events.
  • Gus – Siglioso do Rav & Kristy Everson in Mounted Shooting and Barrel Racing.  Siglioso without Kristy in a parade.
  • Bacara do Summerwind & Jeff Bosley in the 2012 Sela de Ouro.
  • Cruiser – Caesar do Summerwind in Training Level Dressage
  • LEO – DaVinci do Summerwind & Connie Claire in the 2012 Sela de Ouro and Mounted Archery
The SW Award Program recognizes your efforts to promote the awesome Marchador breed using a SW Marchador (bred, sold or imported).   Getting our Marchadors in the spotlight – out into national or local all-breed events is not only fun, it helps others to see the quality, versatility and performance of the Marchador breed.   Any horse purchased from Summerwind, their foals or the product of a breeding from or to a Summerwind horse is eligible.  For a recap of the SW Awards program for 2012, click here.
Events, Press Release

MM Updates from Brazil and Europe!

Great reports and photos posted on the EAMM – European Association’s website!

Just click on the blue links to open the pdf files!  The stories and the photos are unbelievable!

Haras 8 Virtudes – the Versatility of the MM   In German, but the photos show Working Equitation, dressage, western, vaulting, and jumping with great Marchador stallions.

Castles of the Loire – Mangalarga Marchador ride The Marchador stallions look right at home in front of these castles.  A ride with Dieter, Astrid and Agro Maripa.

CHIO 2012 – Marchador/Brazil Opening Ceremony  An international competition week in Aachen Germany.  The EAMM Sela de Ouro was also held there this week.  During CHIO:  360,000 visitors during the week, 50,000 visitors in the jumping arena where the opening ceremony took place, 82 Million TV viewers from all over the world

A Visit to Brazil! 2011 Report  Great photos and stories!  Just like it was yesterday!