LeDan's Jondalar

 Jondalar was foaled on March 26th, 2013 at 8:54pm by his dam Ayla. Letha named Ayla after the lead female character in the novel series Clan of the Cave Bear. Jondalar was the name of her male counterpart who came along in the second book in the series, the first book of which was a movie.. Ayla was a maiden mare and not as big as Lil Sister who had the first colt in 2012, Pistol; but Jondalar was bigger at the moment he was foaled than Pistol was at two weeks old. For Ayla it was a quite a stretch getting that big boy into the world, but she made it with a little help from Letha. Ayla had never shown any gait, but her dam Castle Miss America had as did an older sibling from America who had also thrown three gaited foals. So we felt there was a chance to get gait from her breeding to our gaited stallion Rhythm; not to mention Ayla is gorgeous and was the American Morgan Horse Association August 2013 breed calendar girl, and the foal was likely to be very nice whether gaited or not. Well, Jondalar was showing strong gait on Day 2 of his young life, and still gaiting at the three week mark. He was still showing gait at times as a yearling, and his looks and conformation were looking very nice as we expected as well. He is now 8 years old as I write this. He and I (Dan) have been together since his birth and are strongly bonded. He has grown to about 15.1 hands and developing into a very nice trail horse with growing confidence, and has his parents looks as well.  Showing light gait right now mostly in the form of a flat walk but I think there is more in there to get out of him as he demonstrated as a young colt. He is officially #2 on my two horse riding roster to Pearl but hot on her heals to be #1, though he's doing most of the riding right now with Pearl six months pregnant. He's my Boy and she's my Girl!