Other Horse Sold

Scarlett is a 2006 Morgan gaited palomino filly Letha purchased but discovered she was also going to be too big for her at 15+ hands. She sold her at about 18 months old just before Dan arrived on the scene. Dan loves palominos and she was another horse Dan would have loved to have had. She is now with Betty Donovan in Maryland.

 Tana (barn name) is a 2002 Morgan bay gelding Letha purchased to replace Mic as her riding horse. Tana gave Letha a couple good years but was sold after she brought home Sierra whom she fell in love with and purchased from Barb Fink while we were on a Morgan shopping trip for Dan's first Morgan. He now belongs to Brad Brown in Phoenix, Arizona. 

 America is a 1991 bay mare who bore Letha two foals, Ragtime American Glory and Ayla. Though her whole career prior to coming here had been as a broodmare who had never been trained to ride, she turned out after getting traning to be a very nice riding horse with a lot of heart. She even showed some gait on a ride in Monument Valley; and we learned her 1997 foal, Ragtime Sarah Lee, was gaited and had two gaited foals of her own. Sarah's current owners found us via our web site and after we retired America as a broodmare they, who had fallen in love with her, took her to their home in Queen Creek, Arizona to retire with her daughter and granddaughters; a happy family reunion! 

 Spirit is a 2002 Morgan liver chestnut mare and was Dan's first Morgan after Letha converted him from quarter horses. Spirit is not gaited but has a huge motor with no concept of what tired means and walks out at a pace that makes any non-gaited horse have to trot to stay with her. Dan and her have been on many back country off-trail rides, but the slow pace of the many organized trail rides we now ride were very frustrating to her and we felt she really needed to be an endurance horse. We sold her to a very experienced endurance rider in Northern California with three Tevis finishes who is "loving this mare!" and Spirit's making "light work" of some of her toughest training courses. We knew that was her calling. 

 Sunday is a 2007 Morgan gaited palomino gelding we'd had since he was eight months old. Beautifully dappled in his summer coat and sometimes mistaken for a cremelo in his winter coat. Sold in January 2013 to a very nice lady looking for a new pleasure horse to ride in place of her beloved 33 year old show Morgan who is still with her. Last we heard from her, she absolutely adores him as does her old Morgan he budded up with, and, she was about to enter her first 25 mile endurance race with him after months of training. Go Sunday! 

 Crystal is a 2009 Morgan gaited mare we bought as an 18 month old along with her half sister Pearl. A daughter of the deceased gaited Morgan stallion Caduceus Moses, which makes her potentially more valuable as a broodmare. She also has primarily a diagonal gait (foxtrot). She was started under saddle here at LeDan Morgans in 2012 and then sold to Missouri Morgans in early 2013. 

 Roxie, a 2005 Morgan chestnut mare, came to us from Colorado after we learned her owner had medical problems and was no longer able to care for her. A nice non-gaited mare who after a brief stay with us and some training we sold to a ranching family in New Mexico who were looking for another Morgan to add to the two they already had working the ranch. She'll have a good home and a job to enjoy there. 

We acquired Joker, a Morgan bay gelding as an eight month old weanling and he quickly stole our hearts. He was intended to be a stallion for us, but as we turned our focus to gaited Morgans we gelded him and he became a very nice riding horse for Letha. As our numbers grew from our gaited breeding program, so did our feed bill. With Letha's impending retirement, hard choices had to be made to lower our numbers and costs. It was a hard one Letha agonized over for months, but she finally made the decision to sell Joker to a good home. Jody Reisner in Paradise Valley, Arizona quickly fell in love with Joker and provided him a loving home and was doing endurance on him last we heard.

 Lady Bug, a Morgan gaited chestnut mare was a big girl  at almost 15.3 hands and a great ride. We never got a foal out of her unfortunately, and with deciding not to breed any more and needing to cut down the numbers with Letha's planned retirement very soon, plus several nice colts coming up, we decided to offer her for sale. She went to a good home where she could still be a great trail horse for many more years. Mike Strasburg in Vail, Arizona purchased her to replace a trail horse he recently had to retire and quickly bonded with her; a happy union. Unfortunately we heard a year later from him that she got a barrel cactus in her leg and it got severely infected before they knew it; they spent $10,000 trying to save her but lost her. they were broken hearted and so were we.

 Millie, a Morgan gaited palomino mare, was a real sweetheart and a gorgeous girl, but with our ceasing to breed and Letha's imminent retirement and need to reduce number's, she needed to find a new home as well. She was making good progress on becoming a good trail horse and attracted the attention of Phyllis Vonfleckinger of Maricopa, Arizona who had recently lost her beloved Morgan mare Trinity. Phyllis fell in love with Millie and took her home at first sight and promised she would have a loving home in good hands with her and husband Bob.