05/22/2026
Enjoy our next set of good news! 💥
The second Sandy Pines foal arrived May 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM! This one is extra special because his mom is French Moon Chic aka Royal! ❤️
If you're new here or new to me, Royal is no stranger to competing...let me introduce you to her. She was my first competitive horse back into it after I returned to this all in 2012. I bought her as a weanling in 2014. She was known for her extremely turny and fast abilities, and when she was on her game she easily won rodeos and huge jackpots with hardley even trying. One of my notable major big barrel race wins with her was at The Big Bang in her derby year during covid, where she placed me in the top 12 of The Big Bang Derby Average. This year there were over 1,000 entries; she outran over half the race. Another year at The Big Bang at Sundre in a smoke-filled air from forest fires, she ran me mid to low 17's on a standard pattern to win me the Reserve 1D win at the warm-up, and again to put me in the top 10 at The Big Bang Derby here with a blazing run on Day 2. She also won me semi-professional rodeos with the Canadian Cowboys Association; in her first year of rodeo, we didn't start entering until July and in just two rodeos she was able to launch us into the top ten of the CCA Standings with earnings from some of the major tour rodeos. I was going to go pro with her.
When I trained her I was experimenting with a style of training that was "less broke", and I really struggled with that type of riding. It was what led me to return to my extremely body broke ways, where I immediately started having lots of success again. Marci Laye coached me alot with her, and helped me figure out how to train and ride turny horses like her, and after that we started winning LOTS again. I learned so much from Royal and all of that has made me a better rider, a better jockey, and a WAY better trainer because of her. She is an incredibly talented competitor (that is why I bought Fury). I can't wait to share her offspring with the world.
Welcome her first baby, Mr. Bond! He is sired by Sekret Agentman (Fury of the Wind x dtr of Treis Seis), and out of French Moon Chic (Perks French Cash x Monisa Six Moon). If you don't know who the FOTW horses are yet, you might want to look up FuryTyme aka Puma and Three Times the Fury aka Sway who are owned by Fallon Taylor and trained by Tricia Aldridge. Thank-you Zilver Performance Horses for making this possible. ❤️
