Magic Moments Stable

And we aren’t done showing. This is through 11am on day 4 with about 12 rides to go. By the numbers, 4 in hand baby horses, 9 riding horses, 1 walk-trot rider, 3 11-14 riders, 2 15-18 riders and 5 adult amateurs. This does also include year end high point awards but those ribbons are all along the inside. Congratulations to Magic Moments team! Special thanks to chief groom Juan, best coach Lurena Bell, Aly Castleman & Josh Castleman for all their hard work with schooling horses, Morgan Smallwood for all the pep talks and Granger Durdin for facilitating! Also very grateful for the team at home that holds everything together! And the parents who support the girls… Not pictured are Tracy Vann, Rhiannon Talbert and Kelly Parmeter and all their swag from all their in hand wins! BenchEnduring Soul Ranch Breeding CenterMagic Moments StableGranger DurdinChris GrayDebra GrayAly CastlemanWe LOVE Arabian HorsesVanguard Arabian Sport Horses Josh Castleman

And at the end of day 1…

Our amazing team is starting today with our run for Region 9 championships…today is sport horse hunter type and we are BUSY!

What would your horse google??? 🐎

Offering a special prospect...
Royal Gold Gun MM (Lees Last Steady Gun x Killara (x Fairview Klassique)).
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Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqKBd6N_xgM

Royal Gold Gun MM is another special prospect from MMS stallion, Lees Last Steady Gun. Royal has a powerful trot, active hocks and nicely free shoulders. He is athletic and typey with good length of leg - a lovely prospect for a rider with goals to show main ring and sport horse disciplines.

Royal is sired by Lees Last Steady Gun, a quarter horse stallion by Young Gun who has been a successful sire of Half Arabian winners including Sport Horse National Top Ten Yearling SHIH HA/AA C**t/Gelding - Top Gunn+, Region 11 Reserve Champion Ranch Riding Horse and Regional Reserve Champion Western Dressage Intro - GW Lees Last Encore and 2x Regional Reserve Champion and Canadian National Top Ten - VA Wyatt Earp+. His dam, Killara, is the dam of National Top Ten winners - Kataana (X Gazal Al Shaqab) and Andiamo MMS (x Talion De Torreluna). Royal is a thoughtfully bred horse with an accomplished family history.

If you've been searching for an exciting young prospect for your show string, look no further!

Located in Houston, Texas. Visit our website to view additional available sales horses - https://www.magicmomentsstable.com/horses-for-sale

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Congratulations to the new owners of champion gelding - Rhetoric MM! We’re so excited to see your future with this fantastic young horse.

Happy Mother's Day!

Five thousand years.

That is how long the desert has been carving this animal.

Not breeding him. Carving him. The way wind carves stone, the way grief carves a face, the way silence carves a man.

Look at him. Standing at the edge of nothing. Behind him, his footprints. Ahead of him, more nothing. And still, he goes.

The Arabian horse was not born. He was forged. Forged in a place that kills everything weak, everything loud, everything that asks too much of the world. The desert did not raise him gently. It raised him by taking. Taking water, taking shade, taking every soft thing until only the essential remained.

What you see in him today, the dished face, the great dark eyes, the nostrils that drink the air like prayer, the tail held like a banner, none of it is decoration. All of it is survival made visible. All of it is the desert’s signature on flesh.

The Bedouin understood. They did not own these horses. They lived with them. Inside the same tent. Sharing the same water. When the child was thirsty, the horse drank last. When the night was cold, the horse slept against the body of the man who had nothing else to give. They called her drinker of the wind. They wrote her into poems before they wrote their own names.

And the horse, in return, gave everything. Carried them across distances that should have killed them. Outran armies. Came home, every time, even when the man on her back was dying.
That is what you are looking at.

Not a photograph of an animal in a desert. A photograph of a debt. A photograph of five thousand years of mutual survival, walking forward into the wind, alone, because solitude is what the desert taught him to love.

He looks at the horizon the way the old ones looked at God.

He does not know that he is the last of something.

He only knows the next step.

And the next.

And the next.

Real Will Always Be Rarer.

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