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Storm began his life as a "follow the line" mount at a trail ride facility, then was sold to an inexperienced family. Unfortunately, his family could longer afford to keep him, and, afraid selling him at auction would end badly, they donated him to CWER.

This young man is exceptionally well bred (see below), has great conformation, and a very nice size of about 15hh. He's stocky but not "halter" looking, has a nice float to his trot, and has real potential to be something special. We REALLY like this young man and look forward to an excellent future for him. Below his pedigree see input from a well known quarter horse breeder regarding his bloodlines.

History:  

We've spoken to the family who bred, raised, trained, and rode Storm through his 2 year old season. They managed a local day ride stable, and Storm was used as a 'tail horse', riding at the back of the pack and making sure there were no stragglers, no problems. They adored Storm and said he was well mannered and easy to handle, as were all of this mare's foals. They did find him to be bright and to learn quickly -- and so he would also learn poor manners quickly as well.

Storm was sold as he was about to turn 3 to an inexperienced family who rode him infrequently and, unfortunately, allowed his smart, playful personality to develop bad habits of taking charge of his humans. He is quickly learning what is acceptable here through a firm yet loving approach with no force but no room for rude behavior.

We've also had storm do some small jumps while free lunging in the round pen. He seems to enjoy the challenge and has some natural talent over fences. While his bloodlines may be meant for working cattle, it appears his eager personality and desire for new challenges may make an excellent fit for a jumper.

He's not in-bred (among QH people there is an interesting saying....if it is a good foal it is "linebred" and if not it is "in-bred") at all....he doesn't really have multiple crosses to the same horses except a few, fairly far back, to Three Bars..and frankly that never hurt anything since Three Bars was the sire or grandsire of some very exceptional horses.

*Cutter's Gynn is by Cutter Bill and out of Royal Gynn
Cutter Bill is by Buddy Dexter and out of Billie Silvertone
Buddy Dexter is by Dexter
Billie Silvertone is by Silvertone
Royal Gynn is by Royal King and out of Fifty Rainy
Royal King is by King

A story about this bloodline group... A couple of summers ago I went to a Nevada QHA show that focused on performance horses by having the bare minimum of halter/pleasure/trail classes allowed and having all the performance classes double recognized... so the cutting classes were also NCHA recognized etc. There was a little horse there, a bright gold palomino, named Smart Little Cutter. He was close up Cutter Bill bred (I think out of a daughter...don't remember for sure). He stood about 14.2 and had mane past his shoulder and tail to the ground and was just an adorable little stallion with all the manners in the world. He had shown successfully in working cowhorse I think and had some points in reining and his owner/rider decided to have some fun. She entered him in the novice western pleasure and the open western pleasure classes. In WP you usually see tall, kind of rangy, mostly heavily Thoroughbred crossed kind of QH's with lots of silver mounted tack, little short manes, often braided, and riders that sit with a stick up their well dressed in rhinestones and glitter backsides while the horses plod along like little machines with little animation and looking bored silly...when they aren't crabbing along half sideways to get the really short slow strides for trotting and loping (or worse yet doing that "trolope" thing that is neither lope nor trot and which even non-horse folks think looks crippled....don't even start me on that!). This little palomino stallion enters the class...in working  tack without any silver, on a bosal and mecate, ridden by a rider who sits in the saddle like it was part of her and who is wearing a western shirt, jeans, boots and a working hat...nothing fancy about either of them. The little horse is working on a loose rein, has his face absolutely vertical to the ground, and laps the entire class at both trot and lope (both very soft and not hurried, just not cramped as is usually seen in this class)...usually not a good thing to do. When asked to stop he simply drops his butt in the ground and stops in one stride and stands square. No fussing to depart at the lope (and on the correct lead)...just does it. Moves like he's going somewhere and wants to get there but is obedient and taking it slower at his rider's request. No tail wringing, no open mouth, no ears laid back as he passed the other horses...just going about his job. What fun to watch and a horse that truly looked like a pleasure to ride. Even more fun when he won both classes (now there was a judge with some brass) and earned himself some western pleasure points.

He has no chance of being HYPP positive...there are no lines to Impressive. He has a very faint chance of being a carrier of HERDA through a line to Poco Bueno but since horses with only one gene for this condition show no symptoms that we are aware of and he's a gelding so could not pass it on it isn't worth the time/effort/money to have him tested. It is a recessive gene that causes HERDA and it doesn't matter if he has one gene for it or none.

You can go to www.allbreedpedigree.com and find some information on the horses in his pedigree. Simply type in the name in the space upper left and then click on "inquiry" to the right of that about 4 spaces over. Any horse that comes up in the pedigree that has a photo available will have a little red star. When that horse's name is clicked on its pedigree will come up and there will be a little box with a horse in it between the name and the breed at the top of the pedigree...click on the box to see the photo. If there is also a little  circle with an exclamation point in it there is some additional info...click on that for a dropdown window that will give you what has been entered for that horse. For instance, Silvertone (sire of Billie Silvertone who is the dam of Cutter Bill) was the horse that placed second to Wimpy at the Houston Fat Stock show
and thus missed getting AQHA registration number 1...but went on to do some fine showing of his own.

"Storm"

Pedigree:

(palomino)

(buckskin)

(buckskin)

(chestnut)

(buckskin)

(bay)

(sorrel)

(red dunn)

(palomino)

(sorrel)

(dun)

(sorrel)

(By Two Eyed Jack)

(by King Leo)

(buckskin)

(bay)

Sugar Bars

(sorrel)

(Hall of Fame)

(chestnut)

(palomino)

(sorrel)

(bay)

(sorrel)

(chestnut)

(bay)

(sorrel)

(sorrel)