Manu Forti's Touch Down RID
2010 Hunter Sire of the Year
for Northwest Sporthorse Breeders Association
September 2009 Breeders Classic Shows
2009 show photos by Carolynn Bunch
Dual registered and approved with both the Irish Draught Horse Society (Canada)
and the Irish Draught Horse Society of North America (IDHSNA)
Ollie is batting .833! Six foals, five gorgeous fillies, one beautiful colt.
Pretty Please born May 13, 2009
Saoirse's Aibhailli born August 8, 2009
Keepsake's Platinum Touch, born June 4, 2010
Saoirse's Grady (name pending), born April 16, 2011
Pretty Fancy, born June 21, 2011
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Oliver is a purebred Irish Draught , ManuForti's Touch Down RID, from ManuForti Farms, in Kansas. He is bred from the best of the Irish Draught, being a son of the legendary stallion Touch of the Blues RID, and out of a Select Hornby Premium daughter of the outstanding sire of broodmares, Gort Boy RID. Touch of the Blues now has nine Approved RID sons standing all over the world, as well as many other Champion get in several disciplines. We brought him home as a five-month old weanling in 2004. At his inspection at the age of three in September 2007, he was measured at 16:1-1/2 hands, 1600 pounds, 78" girth, a ten inch cannon and a size five shoe.
At six years old in January of 2010, he measured 16:3-1/2 hands, weighing 1650 pounds, with a girth of 86 inches, and his cannons measured at 10-3/4 inches. (metric measurements: 27.5 cm cannon, 171 cm tall, and a girth of 213 cm) We have shown Ollie every year of his life, he's been a wonderful horse to take to shows and promote our breed with. He loves meeting and greeting new people and is particularly fond of and gentle with children. Oliver is of very traditional Irish Draught type, with a kind and loving disposition, tremendous bone, terrific feet, correct structure, free movement, and a lovely refined head. He is truly a joy to live with! |
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September 2007 at three years old
Northwest Sporthorse Breeders Classic show
"Very Masculine, adorable head"
(remarks by judge Carter Bass in September 2007)
Still adorable at six years -May 9, 2010
photo at home by Kate Triplett
BREEDING INFORMATION
Ollie entered the stud in Spring of 2008, offering limited bookings. His first four mares were confirmed in foal for Spring of 2009, a 100% conception rate via fresh cooled semen.
We greeted two Irish Sporthorse fillies in 2009 from our Thoroughbred mares, Always Pleasing and IB Paranoide, and welcomed a beautiful purebred ID filly from Mac's Colmerin RID. Sadly, the colt from Suma's Keepsake RID was lost to placentitis; the mare has since foaled a lovely filly June 4, 2010.
Breeding via fresh cooled semen, no live cover. Tested EVA Negative and CEM negative. Semen quality is excellent, with a good shipping life.
NOTICE: we are currently making arrangements to be able to offer Ollie via frozen semen in Spring of 2012, for our friends across the border in Canada and others who find fresh shipping logistics difficult. Ollie's frozen semen has been proven by conception on one insemination on our own mare, with the filly of June 21, 2011.
Quality mares of any breed are welcome, and both purebred and partbred get are accepted for registration by both IDHSNA and IDHS Canada.
We reserve the right to approve the mare for quality and compatible type.
2012 breeding fee $1500, includes $250 non-refundable booking.
These are the 2010 rates, and are being held for the 2012 breeding season.
Discount of 25% for multiple mares booked in the same season. Our usual breeding and shipping season runs from late February through August 31, but we will work with clients already booked beyond those dates.
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We now use Rocky Bay Equine, Dr. Bo Weeks, DVM for our collection and shipping, freezing and breeding work. Click the Reproductive Services link for access to their policies, services, forms and pricing. They offer superb mare care and foaling services and breeding package rates for your mares.
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