click on the fish  to translate this page into Chinese, Dutch, French,German, Greek, Italian,Japanese, Korean,Portuguese,Spanish, or Russian  Kary’s Jeepers As told by Allanna Jackson Kary’s Jeepers was by (Laddie's Monte Ray and was out Merry Boy's Snow Bird) Kary's Jeepers was a bald faced, stocking legged, sorrel sabino stallion bred by Jack Gurnett, Northfork Farm, Alberta, Canada. He was double registered TWHBEA and CRTWH. Jack owned Jeepers his entire life. Kary’s Jeepers got his name because the Gurnett’s daughter, Karen, who was the first one to see him the day he was born, ran back to the house exclaiming “Jeepers! So Jack named the colt Kary’s Jeepers. I met Jack and Margaret Gurnett and saw and rode Kary’s Jeepers at Northfork Farm in Rimbey, AB, in Oct. 1990. We went out to the pasture where Jeepers was running loose with his mares. Jeepers immediately came right to Jack. Jack put a mechanical hackamore on Jeepers, jumped on him bareback and rode him up and down then put a western saddle on him so I could ride him. Jeepers was a small horse, barely 15 hands, but stocky with very correct conformation. He was a rock solid, perfectly square gaited running walker who walked automatically for anybody. Most people would fault him for being short gaited and lacking in overstride and head nod, but he was super smooth and stayed in gait without any help from the rider. Jeepers was a quiet well-mannered stallion. I think Jack worked him as well as breeding him. Kary’s Jeepers did just a few years ago at about 24 years of age. One spring he got out of his own pasture and somehow got into a neighbor’s pasture with mares that weren’t his. Before anybody realized what had happened the mares had cornered Jeepers and kicked him up so badly Jack had to have him euphemized. Kary’s Jeepers was the premier sire for Northfork Farm for most of his life. He sired horses of almost every authentic TWH color there is including palomino, chestnut, white, black sabino, sorrel sabino, and a striking carnation pink sabino. Jeeper’s foals have made exceptional pleasure and trail horses suitable for novice riders. Ancestry of Kary’s Jeepers 756166 TWBEA – 174 – CRTWH: He was sired by the chestnut stallion, Laddies Monte Ray (Montana Laddie 653045 x Golden Gold Glory 622662) out of the sabino mare Merry Boys’s Snow Bird 6510793 TWHBEA-170-CRTWH (Fritzsches Merry Boy 610252 x Snow Bird F 623341). Monta Laddie 653045 was sired by Montana Monte 611489 (Louis Allen Order 500063 x Sheba Walker 501356), out of the mare Kiltie 621470 (Mitch’s Comet 580821 x Fairy Breese 580820) The mare Golden Gold Glory 622662 was sired by the sorrel stallion Hey Joy 531057 (Silvaro Allen 453516 x Pet Talley 441310). Hey Joe’s is the only surviving line from the Climbing Arrow Ranch that I know of. The Climbing Arrow Ranch in Three Forks, Montana, began registering two to six TWH foals per year as early as 1942. All were registered under the ranch name so we have not found out who the people were. When the Climbing Arrow Ranch was sold in the mid 1950’s the new owners elimiated the Walkers replacing them with Quarter horses. Most of the Walkers reportedly came to a bad end. Golden Gold Glory was out of the yellow mare HD’s Easy Money 590519 (Reveille Boy x Buck’s Golden Honey 540596). The chestnut stallion Fritzsche’s Merry Boy 610252 was sired by the chestnut stallion Merry Boy’s F-ii 550378 (Merry Boy 350189 {black sabino} x Blackleys May Allen 461357 {registered as black but both of her parents were chestnut so there’s an error in either her color or her pedigree.} Fritzche’s Merry Boy was out of the mare Fritzsche’s Failure 600046 (Midnight Sunset 480718 x Princess Allen G 560710). The stallion Midnight Sunset was sired by Midnight Sun who was black. The white maximal sabino mare Snow Bird F 623341 was sired by the white maximal sabino stallion Snow Prince Allen 501452 (King Longstep Allen 480084 {sorrel sabino} x Roan Merrie Maid 443211 {sorrel sabino} out of the sorrel sabino mare Miss Petunia 571156 (Lightfoot Rickey 501200 {sorrel sabino} x Cherokee Rose 2nd 550056 {chestnut}. Miss Petunia was probably Ethna M. “Blondy” Friesen’s first Walker and one of the three foundation mares that Blondy built her breeding program on and linebred to. Sheila Reum rode Miss Petunia a few times as a child and remembers her as a good tempered, big, very colorful mare who could keep herself in an even 4-beet gait going fast enough the horde Sheila’s neighbor was riding had to lope to keep up with her. This was presumable after Miss Petunia had weaned a foal and was already several months along with her next foal. Jack Gurnett adds that Jeepers was an exceptional stallion one he feels he will never be able to replace, Jeepers has sired a lot of excellent foals to carry on his name. Jack states that they still ride some of the foals.. now grown today. |
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