A Baby Boomer Dreams of Arabian Horses - The Search Part 2

Part 1 of the Baby Boomer Series
Part 1 of The Search

The next place to visit was the farm up in Snohomish. For those not familiar with my area, Snohomish is another county north of Seattle. While I live one country south of Seattle. That is at least a two hour drive for me.

I am a huge home body. I hate to leave home. I do to work my horses in the winter because I don't have the facilities to work them here but other than that, I'm stuck like glue to this farm. For me to make a trip to Snohomish is a big deal all by itself. Let alone one to shop for Arabian horses.

The only reason I was willing to make this trip at all is because I had been to this farm once before. It had been a few years but I will never forget that trip.

I went there with Betty Chapman Radke, the owner of GS Khochise. She was shopping for a halter quality mare to breed to the Khemosabi son because one of the big halter breeders had made disparaging remarks about her stallion being "just a little western horse."

For some reason that got Betty going and she thought that she had something to prove. So she was out looking for a mare that might produce a halter champion when crossed with Khochise. I don't know how she had learned of this place nor do I remember how she enticed me to come along, maybe it was because I was helping her with breeding at the time. All I remember for sure is that she was going to look at a JK Amadeus yearling filly.

The place we were visiting was called Kings Gate Farms.The name sounds pretty impressive and for those who have been around a while, they'd know some impressive horses had come from that farm over the years.

The farm was located just a ways down the road from R O Lervick Arabians. Lervicks was and is still a big fancy breeding and showing facility. So I suppose it was only natural that Betty and I both thought we were going to a pretty fancy place.

Well, we couldn't find the fancy farm. We finally ended up turning around and heading back down the road knowing we had gone much further than our directions stated.

We had passed a little rather dumpy looking older post World War II house on our way down the road. The grass was grown up in front at least two feet. We hadn't even considered that might be our destination.

Now on our way back up the road we had to consider all options. As we got closer to the little house, we found the numbers on the mailbox matched those we were looking for. We didn't even see a barn, let alone any horses. We both wondered aloud if this could really be the place, the place with the great Gamaar's youngest daughter. It just didn't seem possible, still we pulled in and went up to the door.

To be continued..................

Part 3

The horse in the picture is JK Amadeus. He is by Bey Shah out of an Aza Destiny daughter.

I will relate more about the content theft issue as I understand it.

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