Our Horses (we love the chestnuts!)
"Sweet Talker" Sire is Magus, Dam is Ten Cents AKiss

Our farms namesake.  I have owned him for 10 years.  He came off the race track as a 6 year old and we brought him home and started putting the miles on him.  I have ridden this horse on every trail possible, in many endurance rides, in parades and grand entries, in big benefit trail rides, and I have used him in many classes, reining, cutting, and dressage.  I have ridden a lot of horses in my time, and I have never been on a horse with more heart and willingness, more eager to please attitude, or a horse that I trust as much as Sweet Talker.  He is 16 years old now, and still going strong.  We hope to have our 3 year old daughter  start riding lessons on him this coming summer.  Sweet Talker is just the horse for it!  See him over the years...
"Leo Kan"

Leo came to us as a 4 month old who had a run in with a fence and had broken one of the bones in his neck.  He was supposed to race and his broken neck bone ended the possibilies of running.  He currently has two brothers from the same sire racing and doing great!  We brought Leo home and turned him out with the other young horses on our farm.  We let him grow and watched his neck closely.  He never had any issues with it, and because his bones were very young and forming when it happened, his neck healed up 100%.  When he was a yearling, he was run through a fence by an aggressive colt we had on the farm at the time.  Poor Leo had a chest and front legs full of stitches.  Life had started out rough for this poor guy.  With his pedigree and his nice conformation, we decided to leave him a stallion if he grew up with good manners.  Well, we spent a lot of time handling Leo, and with his disposition and good nature, he is still a stallion and will be 5 in April.  He started his endurance career when he turned 4 and he is primarily my husbands horse.  He has two foals on the ground and one on its way with my mare Bunny.  We plan on starting Leo on 50 mile endurance rides this fall.  You can see his whole web page by clicking here.
Visits as of February 3, 2007
Below are the endurance stats on the horses listed above
Ride History for Sweet Talker
2000 Season
Frigid Digit 30/50/75 rider: Becker, Melissa
01/29/2000 30 miles pulled:Lame 

2001 Season
Tx Bluebonnet Classic 25/50/100/IAHA Reg 9 Chmp 50 rider: Becker, Melissa
04/07/2001 25 miles 45th place     time: 03:38:00 

Foxfire 25/50/100 rider: Becker, Melissa
05/05/2001 25 miles 18th place     time: 04:04:02 

Llano Estacado Challenge 25/50 rider: Becker, Melissa
09/29/2001 25 miles 11th place     time: 03:39:00 

Bell Cow Boogie 25/50 rider: Becker, Melissa
11/10/2001 25 miles 16th place     time: 03:46:00 

2002 Season
Off-Road Warrior rider: Becker, Melissa
06/08/2002 25 miles pulled:Lame 

Llano Estacado Challenge rider: Becker, Melissa
09/28/2002 25 miles 23rd place     time: 05:38:00 

Rio Grande rider: Becker, Melissa
11/16/2002 30 miles pulled:Lame 

2003 Season
Texas Bluebonnet Classic/IAHA Reg. 9 Championship rider: Becker, Melissa
04/05/2003 25 miles 22nd place     time: 03:45:00 

Llano Estacado Challenge rider: Becker, Melissa
09/28/2003 25 miles 11th place     time: 04:11:00 

Fort Worth Skyline Endurance Ride rider: Becker, Wayne D.
10/11/2003 25 miles 19th place     time: 03:47:00 

2005 Season
Frigid Digit rider: Becker, Melissa
02/05/2005 25 miles 43rd place     time: 04:08:00 

Texas Bluebonnet Classic, AHA Reg 9 Championship rider: Becker, Melissa
04/02/2005 25 miles 24th place     time: 03:53:00 

Meanwhile Back at the Ranch rider: Becker, Melissa
04/16/2005 25 miles 17th place     time: 03:21:01 

MOON ME! rider: Becker, Melissa
07/23/2005 25 miles 33rd place     time: 04:09:00 

2006 Season
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch rider: Becker, Melissa
04/15/2006 25 miles 5th place     time: 03:17:00 

MOON ME! rider: Becker, Melissa
07/08/2006 25 miles 8th place     time: 03:16:00 

2007 Season
Texas Bluebonnet Classic/AHA 50/100 Reg 9 Chmpship rider: Melissa Becker
05/12/2007 25 miles 8th place     time: 04:14:00 

Llano Estacado Challenge rider: Becker, Melissa
09/22/2007 30 miles 4th place     time: 03:58:00 

2008 Season
Freeze `R Burn on Sweet Talker
02/09/2008 25 miles pulled:Lame 

Ride History for Leo Kan

2006 Season
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch  (He was three days shy of 4 years old and they disqualified him after this ride, our error)
04/15/2006      25 miles      5th place     time: 03:14:00 

Texas Bluebonnet Classic Reg 9 AHA Chmpship 50/100
05/13/2006      25 miles      6th place     time:  03:09:00

MOON ME! 
07/08/2006      25 miles      7th place     time: 03:14:00 

2007 Season
Llano Estacado Challenge rider:  Wayne Becker
09/22/2007 30 miles 3rd place  BC   time: 03:45:00 

2008 Season
Freeze `R Burn on Leo Kan
02/09/2008 25 miles 4th place     time: 02:41:00 

Ride History for Deste Petra

2008 Season
Freeze `R Burn on Deste Petra
02/09/2008 25 miles 6th place     time: 02:43:00

"Deste Petra"
13 year old Registered Arabian Gelding born July 1, 1994
By Magus a leading racing sire and out of Deste Zbrunette who is by the top racing sire Brusally Zbruenu

Well this horse has won us over.  He came to me a year and a half ago as a rescue.  I took him in because he has the same sire as my personal horse Sweet Talker.  He came to me shy and afraid without much handling.  You couldn't pat his neck without him jumping.  It took worlds of patience to worm paste him, and he was fun for the hoof trimmer the first several trims!  Now, after 1 1/2 years, this horse has really become part of the family.  He is great on the trail and just completed his first endurance ride.  He loves the trail and has learned to trust his handlers.  He makes a great addition to our horse family.