TORI'S STORY- QUEENS ROYAL RANSOM

So recently Todd had to go and do a routine check on the mares and the foals.  You see not only have the 150 head of cow/calf elk been wrecking havoc on the fence but also on our horses.  The mares and colts really do not like it when the herd of elk hope are in their pasture, in fact they despise it so much that they run right through the barbed wire fence!  Needless to say not a good thing.  Todd had the camera on him on this particular trip and caught a picture of TORI (QUEENS ROYAL RANSOM) that we just could not resist sharing.  And since I was sharing the photo I decided to share her story as well.

Tori is an own daughter of DASH TA FAME X THOUGHTOFASAQUEEN.  With DTF and Royal Sovereign on her papers she really is a queen.  Top that off with her having won around 15,000.00 on the track and being retired 100% sound you have the real deal.  Todd and I started the search for a mare like Tori in the summer of 2010 after suddenly loosing a phenomenal DTF mare.  We knew that the loss of one would mean a replacement but also knew that it would be incredibly tough to replace the mare that we had just lost.  Todd and I have found that over the years we have had great luck in crossing our DTF daughters on any one of our stallions (PADDYS SHOTA MERADA, PERKS STATUS SYMBOL, and our freshman sire FRENCHMANS SHAKE EM) producing tough competitors all around. 

We found Tori through a friend of ours, Jill Lane.  Jill new she was for sale in OK and since we trusted Jill and Jill would be going to OK we decided to do something that we rarely do......buy sight unseen.  Of course we had multiple photos and very thorough vet exams done first.  Liking everything that we had seen with Tori and getting great vet exams we decided to have Jill stop in and check her out for us. 

Back in 2010 OK, was going threw a horrible draught (still is) and Jill said that if you could imagine the mare with more weight on, then she would be a good mare.  Again, we trusted Jill and told her to bring Tori home for us.  Well Tori came home and though we were prepared for a under weight mare, I don't think we were prepared for the mare (6 mths pregnant as well) that stepped off of the trailer.  Tori was a rack of bones and needed at least 300 lbs added back onto her.  Over the next few weeks, we carefully fed Tori back to a healthy weight and could see that the mare we brought home was going to be a huge asset to the TREASURE STATE QUARTER HORSES program.  Tori is a super kind mare that lets Maisie and Ashlyn hang all over her in the fields and has passed that on to last years colt and this years as well.   Seeing Tori in the above picture in knee high grass put a smile on my face as I am sure it does hers.  We are happy to say that Tori has found her FOREVER home here on the ranch!!!!!