Amethyst do Summerwind (Amy) is off to Utah with Valarie and her son Chris! She leaves under a lease agreement that offers them the chance to have the foal from Day 1! Amy will be bred to Talisma Kafe for a great 2015 SW Future Foal to be born there.
Photo shoot! Amethyst do Summerwind! Tamara Gooch.
Valarie and Chris have been great friends and MM lovers since they took the chance and bought a SW embryo that turned into Hemingway do Summerwind last year. That success quickly turned into worry when Hemi’s surrogate mother died when he was only 2 months old. But he made it!
Earlier in the year, Chris and Val helped the M Foundation and the MM owners transport 3 Marchador mares to Arizona. We are wishing them success with their next Marchador!
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Praia do Forte – Fort Beach. These are protective cages for sea turtle nests on the beach. The nests are monitored until the baby turtles hatch and get to the sea.
Seu Chico Tandy
We got to present one of the awards for marcha picada stallion Seu Chico Tandy won the class and we got to ride him!
Reserve champion mare at the CBM in Bahia – marcha picada
Great saddles for sale at the fair.
View from our hotel lobby window! Marchador Fest and a few auctions were held here at the hotel.
Stations of the Cross. Tile depictions inside the church.
Colonial building – all Portuguese tiles – that is being restored in Salvador
View from the restaurant. Yacht club Salvador, Bahia
Fresh bread at the supermarket.
John taking a photo of the mare conformation class. Third mare in was also one we liked – daughter of Favacho Estanho.
Highest priced mare at the auction. They only sold a share for several hundred thousand dollars.
Lynn riding Luxo. We also rode a stallion Violeiro do Riomar.
Luxo de Mairi, a marcha picada stallion, son of Emblema EAO, pure Favacho blood.
Amado Ipe, champion marcha picada stallion
Mare conformation class at the show. This mare won the class, a daughter of Favacho Diamante.
Marchador auction – great stage to showcase the horses.
