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Eagle Ridge Farm, wishes to
congratulate Amber Applegate on her purchase of “A
High Voltage Attraction”, Cameo or Cami as
we called her is an amber champagne filly.
Cami was our “surprise”
foal. I’m sure you are familiar with the “maiden mare” scenario. You
just never know when or where or how they’ll give birth! Cameo proved
she was no exception to that rule.
Just 9 days prior to Cameo
arriving on the scene, we had been bless with a cute little, and I use the
term loosely, filly we named “A Legendary
Dream, Xena for her barn name. Out of our
Gold coin mare, Dreams Are Made Of This.
Jewel, “A
Major Attraction”, our true black maiden
mare was definitely due any day but wasn’t showing us anything to get
excited about. She had been bred to Windcrest’s
High Voltage out of
California
. He is a blued eyed, ivory champagne who had thrown color on every color
he had been bred to except black, this was his first black mare! So
besides anticipating a champagne color of some sort, we were just flat out
wondering when she’d have it! Would she go 11 months or the full year!
The last maiden mare we had went a full year, so foal watching for a 5
weeks wasn’t an attractive option!
This was not to be the case.
For 9 days we checked Jewel every night, nothing! She wasn’t
particularly soft behind, she showed no evidence of a bag and her shape
hadn’t really changed. On the 9th, she still showed us the
same…nothing…so we went to bed with no monitor. Big mistake!
The next morning I went out to feed and Sal went out to start the cars, as
we both work other jobs. I flipped on the lights, said “Good Morning”
to the children as I always do, nothing out of the ordinary, WRONG! The
light switch for the foaling stall is the first thing you encounter then
the door then the window…. I flipped on the light, unlocked the door and
as I threw open the door I started saying “Good Morning, Jewel”. I
stopped in mid-sentence. Laying there was every barn owner’s nightmare,
a cast mare and a still wet blue-eyed baby foal laying down and looking at
me from a torn bag! Thank god she was sitting up and blinking at me! Sal
was still outside starting cars and I started yelling at the top of my
lungs! Sal quick get in here, Jewel is cast close to the wall and has had
the baby by herself!
Needless to say the next few
hours were harried but blessed. Cami was still wet so she hadn’t been
out very long. We dried her off and imprinted and kissed her. Thank God
she was in good shape and we got Jewel up so she could meet her filly face
to face. The vet came to check Jewel out and she hadn’t even torn
herself and her bag was there and ready to go! After seeing her coloring
we knew we had a champagne, but what color of champagne? We called Midge,
Frankie’s owner and described the filly…. She was excited to hear that
Frankie had been successful at throwing his champagne gene on black thus
proving him to be homozygous if a homozygous gene was to exist in the
champagne realm. The gene has yet to be named as that, but believe me it
exists! We decided on her barn name as Cameo as she looked like a perfect
cameo brooch. She had brown points that in a month of so showed a gold
glimmer in the sun and her body was a creamy light gold! She had fire
engine pink skin and gorgeous blue eyes! Now the question was will her
eyes turn amber or hazel or will they stay blue, only time would tell. As
the months pasted Cameo showed us her eyes would remain blue. We were
excited! I dubbed her a horse of a different color an she is all that and
more! I have always said
that she'll stop traffic in the show ring or on the trail....Melinda let
us know if I'm right! She is one of a kind!
As Xena and Cameo were born 10 days apart, and lived their lives together.
So they were also sold about 10 days apart. Interesting, huh!
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