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Redbud Game Wizard
"Taco"
2018 AMHA & AMHR DNA/PQ tests pending.
GELDED 2/29/20
Sire: First Knight Wizard of Oz x Dam: Wesco Farms Netherstorm
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Taco, his buddy Cobie and Freddie the yearling. These stinkers waiting until I was in the house, so my patient roommate tried to get some video - he's not use to that so lots of 4-5second bits I spliced together. It's pretty crappy, but you can see them moving. (May 2020).
We sold Taco's dam to another breeder with the contingency we received the first foal from Boo (dam) being bred to Ozzie. We ended up buying Ozzie before Taco arrived here as we've always admired him.
Here's a head shot (windy day) and butt/legs - yeah they're straight! (June 9, 2019).
Here's the story - Taco is a cute little guy with loud color like his parents. Sadly, he came to us in December 2018 severely underweight and badly in need of trimming (walking on his fetlock/heel), which was a surprise based on his initial foal photos we received.
He is gaining ground daily and actually runs and plays like a normal foal now (April 2019) with his buddy Cobie. They have lots of space in a new 1-1.5 acre pen with plenty to eat and plenty of room for young horses to grow and gain muscle tone - it's hilly!
See how straight his legs are - 04/11/19! And how much taller he is just since January (photo below)
Taco is finally growing too. And is catching up to Cobie, although we're fairly certain he'll be in the 31-32" range at maturity. It's just lovely to see him running and full of energy, his hooves in much better shape and his legs straight!
This is from 1/26/2019. He's bright eyed and playing. We're thrilled to see how much better he's doing. The second photo is Taco with our eldest Mini, Maria (Tanglewood Farms Maria. We lost her at 34 on Valentine's Day), doing great at 33 years young.
You can see how he's filled out the past two month. We're very pleased with his progress.
Our fun task now is teaching him to lead, he was not halter trained prior to coming here, but is picking it up!
Also as stated above we tested his dam, Wesco Farms Netherstorm for the four known ACAN (dwarf genes) and she came back N/D2 so is a carrier. His half sister came back NN on the D2 gene. He only needs to be tested for that gene, as he's NN for the others. We haven't tested him as we'd like him to go as a gelding (either gelding contract or we'll geld in Nov-Dec 2019). If someone wants to use him for breeding we'd 'prefer' he have the D2 gene tested.
Taco's pedigree
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