More news from owners of horses born here at Top O' The Hill Farm. Top O' The Hill Farm used to also breed Suffolk Punch draft horses-- another super breed of fairly rare horses. Suffolks are the only breed of draft horse that was bred exclusively for farm work-- a somewhat smaller draft, thrifty, sound and intelligent with dispositions similar to the Curly horse. The breed dates from the sixteenth century but all animals alive today trace their male lines back to one stallion, a horse called Crisp's Horse of Ufford, who was foaled in 1768. On occasion, I crossed the Suffolks and the Curlies.. every foal was a winner ! 
One lovely colt was born from Colonel's Pasqualie Kid (ABC 463) and Tassie, a registered 3/4 Suffolk Punch mare. I named him Ollie. His dam, Tassie, is pictured at the left with a full blood Suffolk colt (Tassie's Snow Prince). Ollie's newborn photo is below.
Ollie remained at the farm for some time-- through training and ultimately became one of my daughter's favorite mounts. She and he did some rough trail rides and became quite an awesome team. 
Ollie went anywhere Zoe asked him to. They did many Judged Pleasure rides together and one open show. Ollie won lots of ribbons. 
The time came for Ollie to be sold-- Zoe was at an age where she didn't have so much time to ride and Ollie was depressed. A woman from Vermont came to look at him and it was love at first mount !! Kathy had had an accident involving a horse and sported a bad ankle, hadn't ridden in awhile. Well she and Ollie became the team that Ollie and Zoe had once been. Kathy has visited often to relate happy proud stories of her and Ollie's rides together. They go out for long 5 hour trail rides in tough mountainous country-- Kathy always feeling safe with her new life-long friend. Recently she mailed a photo of her and Ollie taken by a 
professional photographer. Ollie is 15 years old now. Don't we hope all our Curlies find homes like this one?
Ollie went anywhere Zoe asked him to. They did many Judged Pleasure rides together and one open show. Ollie won lots of ribbons. 
The time came for Ollie to be sold-- Zoe was at an age where she didn't have so much time to ride and Ollie was depressed. A woman from Vermont came to look at him and it was love at first mount !! Kathy had had an accident involving a horse and sported a bad ankle, hadn't ridden in awhile. Well she and Ollie became the team that Ollie and Zoe had once been. Kathy has visited often to relate happy proud stories of her and Ollie's rides together. They go out for long 5 hour trail rides in tough mountainous country-- Kathy always feeling safe with her new life-long friend. Recently she mailed a photo of her and Ollie taken by a 
professional photographer. Ollie is 15 years old now. Don't we hope all our Curlies find homes like this one? Tassie is the dam to another Curly mare registered name- Good Golly Miss Molly-- a maternal sister to Ollie. Molly was bred to Mead's Chocolate Chip and gave birth to the mare in a past blog posting-- A Kurlee Dream.. who has also found her new owner in Maine, Laurice Lee. You can read all about her on the October 18th post. These Curlies are just plain super horses !! And the Suffolk Punch/Curly cross resulted in some really nice offspring.
Enjoy the day ~
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