Worth the Wait

That old saying of waiting makes the journey and the adventure sweeter is so true.

Rewind to the spring of 2013- I had the lease on a wicked nice TB mare, and bred her to Flagmount's Freedom. Truly a dream cross to me for my next upper level prospect. 2013, and 2014 passed with zero pregnancy to either stallion that I tried. So I sent the mare back to her owner, and acquired another TB cross mare, Stone's Choice who was actually very closely bred to Dash De Kas, my first upper level horse. We got a pregnancy!! I was over the moon! Spring of 2015 rolls around, and we were reaching 300 days, and Demi ended up losing the foal. A very dark filly... I was devastated. I had no idea what to do or how to do the breeding thing anymore.


In June of 2015 I was lucky enough to roll into purchasing Ballinlaugh Ice, who was already in foal to Mannhattan. Mischief Managed was born in June of 2016, and so began the venture of trying for my Flag foal one more time. Success. There on the ultrasound screen was a tiny black dot. Now it was a waiting game for over 300 days waiting to see what Icy was cooking for us.

June 2nd 2017 hits. Icy looks close, but not quite ready to have her kid. Ty and I had a wedding to attend that evening so we check everyone at 6pm, nothing and went onto the wedding. We returned back to town around midnight, and I said lets go check Icy. Ty told me that there wasn't a point that she wasn't going to have had the foal she wasn't ready yet. I won the argument and out we went, still in dress clothes to the barn for what was supposed to be a quick check.

Saoirse at 6 hours old

Just kidding. There in the dark of the paddock was a tiny dark creature. We brought them inside, got the filly cleaned up and dry and finally got a look at what had taken us 4 years to create. The filly went nameless for a while as I wanted to find something perfect. We were blessed with a black filly, who had 6 white hairs for a star and one tiny white foot, and the absolutely best personality we could ask for.

Saoirse at 3 days old

Her barn name came first. Saoirse (pronounced Seer-SHA) which means freedom in Celtic. Now it was just down to needing a show name. Worth the Wait. That was perfect, because she was truly worth the long wait to get her here. Flagmount's Worth the Wait. The perfect princess had a name finally. Kelsea Ballerini wrote a song call "Legends" and it is so incredibly fitting to the relationship I have been able to from with his filly in such a short amount of time.

Saoirse has had an amazing first year with us. She has been to her first cross country schooling. She has been to two horse shows, the first she won, and the second she was 3rd out of 6. She is learning how to do big horse things like lunge, wear a saddle, she wears a blanket and a fly sheet. We cannot wait until she can be ridden and start the next leg of our journey.

Enjoy a few more photos of Saoirse through her first year with us!

Saorise at her RPSI inspection in September of 2017

Hanging out after her class at Texas Rose in March of 2018

Competing in the FEH Yearling class at Feather Creek in May of 2018

First set of many braids this girl will see

Maybe I kinda like her?

Headed to a show with big brother O'Malley.



Stay tuned for more adventures as we see where this crazy road takes us next.


Until next time.


*Keep Kicking* 

Summer of 2018

I swear... I really should be better about updates.

So here is what has gone on since the last post.


*Rio Bravo was sold into a wonderful Hunter/Jumper home, and is killing it down in Texas.


*Ty and I started a breeding program! Well actually two different programs. We are now in the third year of breeding top talented sport horses.


We acquired our foundation mare, Ballinlaugh Ice in the summer of 2015, and since have produced 3 exceptional young horses from her. We also had an opportunity to breed an own daughter of Aberjack, and had one nice colt from her.


We are also finally moving forward with the show pig program. During the fall of 2017 we captured two incredible females, and they are both bred for fall of '18 litters.


So lets introduce Ballinlaugh Ice or Icy as we call her.

Ballinlaugh Ice

Icy was imported from Ireland in 2009. She competed through the Preliminary level with BadEventer. In 2014 she had her first kid, Viper and he is now successfully competing at the Starter level. We purchased Icy in the summer of 2015, when she was bred to Mannhattan. She produced "Mischief Managed" in June of 2016, who is now in Southern California as a upper level jumper prospect, "Flagmount's Worth the Wait in June of 2017, and "Malfoy RSR" in May of 2017 who is available for purchase. We will formally introduce Flagmount's Worth the Wait shortly!

Mischief Mangaed
Mannhattan/Ballinlaugh Ice/Darnay

Flagmount's Worth the Wait
Flagmount's Freedom/Ballinlaugh Ice/Darnay

Malfoy RSR
Mannhattan/Ballinlaugh Ice/Darnay



Our goals with our breeding program is to produce top quality young horses that will be successful in any discipline, and with any rider. We don't breed for just flashy types, but rather good sound minded talented horses that anyone can be confident and successful with.

Next post we will introduce, Flagmount's Worth the Wait. She is our keeper filly from 2017, and will not only be a valuable asset to our show string but the breeding program as well!


*Keep Kicking*