The Sixth Annual Canadian Classic
Curly Horse Show will be held on 28 June 2009
At Bergen Ranch Sundre Alberta
The Sixth Annual Canadian Classic
Curly Horse Show will be held on 28 June 2009
At Bergen Ranch Sundre Alberta
RANCH ROPING - www.KeithStewart.ca
THE STORY OF THE PENDELTONIAN CURLIES
Two saddle and brood mares both open, both rideable, both papered, but not curlies. GREATLY REDUCED $3,500 for Lin & 1,500 for Missy
Our horses here on the Bergen Ranch are raised and trained to excel at all ranch jobs and western events. They are North American Curly bred and crossed with Quarter Horse lines that are checked for nature, good bone and feet. They must have (cowability) and be extremely trainable. All of our horses must have that quiet curly nature combined with the ability to read and work cattle. They must be quick and have that quiet refined ‘good looks’. We get lots of remarks like "I didn’t know that the Curlies were ‘that refined’, or ‘that big’ or ‘that fast’. These are just some of the remarks we get from top horsemen from our area. We want our horses to be good enough looking to get second looks, and not of curiosity, but of admiration. We try to stay away from extreme traits and yet keep them strongly hypoallergenic at the same time. Our horses must first and foremost be top working horses. Our breeding stallions must be good looking with good intelligent heads, they need to be fast, agile and have cow sense. They need a pedigree because I want to know their genetic faults as well as their genetic good points. While we have ABC registered horses, we register our Curlies only with the ICHO registry to which I have been a member since 2000. The ICHO registers all curly horses and is dedicated to "Quality, Equality and Forward Vision.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams(stolen from Michelle Ives)
(1) What is a North American Curly Horse? (2) Why are they unique to all other horses? (3) Where do they come from?
(1) The North American Curly Horse is a very versatile horse that has anywhere from tight curls to a slight wave covering all or parts of the body. Most have a curly mane and sometimes a curly or wavy tail. Most lose some, or all of their mane and sometimes some or all of their tail hair upon spring shedding. The ones that lose all of their mane and tail hair are known as extremes. Bergen Ranch tries not to raise any extremes.
(2) The curly horse from North America is very unique to other horses in that these animals are hypoallergenic. This means that people that are allergic to other horses are not usually allergic to North American Curly Horses.
(3) The exact origin of the North American curly horse is somewhat the greatest mystery in the horse world today. However there are many theories (most of them now proven wrong) The most known and most widely publicized theory is that they came from the Bashkir area of Russia. However this theory has been proven, beyond a doubt, to be erroneous. Also the Bashkir horses in Russia are not curly. So where did they come from?
Curly horses in North America were first recorded by the Sioux Indians in Swift Dog's 1801/1802 pictographs. "The year the Sioux stole some curIie horses from the Crow. P.T. Barnum had a curly horse in 1848. Peg leg Smith used curly horses in the early mid eighteen hundreds to run horses from the West to the Eastern USA. George Pollock along with his two brothers arrived in southern Saskatchewan in 1883 with curly horses from Nevada. Peter Damele and his father spotted curlies in the Peter Hanson mountain range in Nevada in 1898. Mr. Johnson, Ole Skjonsberg's grandfather brought a curly mare into Alberta in 1902. All of these horses were undoubtedly caught in the wild, or were progeny from individuals caught in the wild in the North Western United States and the most likely theory is that there were one, or more, mutations that cropped up and were spread around throughout the North West. One of the things that is known is that the North American Curly Horse is a true North American breed started and bred in North America. Francis Fredell one of the early Colorado horse breeders was located close to Boulder, believed (like myself) that they were exactly the same breeding as the early Quarter Horses, which is 'Spanish Mustang breeding scattered around the wilds of North America'. (prior to the TB infusion in the Quarter Horse)
The North American Curly Horse is more than just a horse, they very easily become a life style.
I've spent most of my living days training horses and dogs and working with livestock, the rest have just been wasted.
Stallions
Jordan 1998 brown NACHR#62-D curly stallion
WCC Sundance Chance 2006 Palomino curly stallion NACHR#1040-D
Bergen Titan - 2007 Palomino curly Stallion NACHR# 1048-D To be gelded this spring.
Saturn- 2006 Sorrel Straight haired. Sired curly colts from straight and curly mares which he impregnated as a yearling. Sired one curly colt in 2008Died June 2008
Bergen Varda - 10 June 08 buckskin colt (D) Emma/Saturn
Mares
BNC Babe, 1991 sorrel curly mare NACHR#1039-D $5,500
Bergen Curly Kelly 2000 dark sorrel NACHR # 60-D sorrel curly mare (small)Belongs to Olwyn
Bergen Emma AQHA 1996 Grulla mare straight not registered. NFS
Bergen Kriss 2000 buckskin dun NACHR# 61-S straight mare $12,000
Bergen Marsha 2002 bay NACHR #780- S Bay straight mare 4,000 as team with Bergen Ned
Bergen Nadine 2003 NACHR# 787-S black straight filly 3,500 - In training at Bronc's
Bergen Nickey 2003 NACHR# 518-D curly black filly 6,500
Bergen Penny 2004 bay NACHR #795-D bay curly filly 4,500
Bergen Petra 2004 black NACHR# S 796 straight filly 2,000 Sold to Bronc
Bergen Rascal - 2005 Black NACHR#1036-S Straight Filly NFS
Bergen Resa 2005 black NACHR#1030-D curly filly 4,500
Bergen Rikki 2005 bay NACHR# 1025-D curly filly 2,000
Bergen Rilla 2005 black Jordan/Alert NACHR# 1033-S min curly filly 2,000
Bergen Riva 2005 bay NACHR# 1034 - D curly filly 3,500
Bergen Rosie Grey - 2005 NACHR# 1029- S blue/grey straight haired filly (Hurt foot) NFS
Bergen Sierra - 2006 sorrel filly Lin/Monarch 3,500
Bergen Sienna 2006 black Dakota/Jordan 2,000
Bergen Simone - 2006 Bay TS Miss (Missy) /Jordan 2,000 In training at Bronc's
Bergen Steel Grey 2006 Laura/Jordan 2,000
Bergen Sky 2006 grulla Emma/Jordan 5,500
Bergen Tanya Bay Missy/Jordan 2,000
Bergen Tara Red sorrel - Red/Nickey 3,500
Bergen Tierra Sorrel - Lin/Gold dust 2,500
Bergen Tina Sorrel - Kelly/Gold dust Owned by Olwyn Gale
Bergen Trish - Palomino - Zantanon/Gold Dust $2,500
Bergen Vance Bay - Jordan/Rusty
BergenVictor Black - Jordan/Nadine Owned by Paige Linberg
Bergen Uranus Buckskin - Jordan/Dakota
Bergen Varcity Bay - Jordan/Marsha
Bergen VaugnBay - Saturn- /MissyOwned by Quentin Linberg
Bergen Venice Black/Brn - Saturn/Nickey
Bergen Vadar Grulla - Saturn//Kriss
Bergen Wing - Bay Filly Jordan/Kelly Owned by Olwyn Gale
Bergen Wren - Bay Filly Jordan/Babe
Bergen Will - Bay Colt Saturn/Riva
Bergen Wade - Sorrel Colt Chance/Rosey Grey
Dakotas Golden Girl 1993 NACHR# 794-D curly palomino Mare $3,000
RC Rosies Blaze - 2001 NACHR# 1031-D BNC Chester/Dans Pride Rosie $22,500
T Bone 1977 bay NACHR# 516-D curly mare NFS
WCC Blondes Rust - 2004 NACHR# 1032-D Copper Clown/WCC Blonde $3,500
NACH GELDINGS
Bergen_Mitch 2002 brown NACHR#808-D curly gelding. 2,500
Bergen Monarch 2002 NACHR# 517-S straight haired sorrel gelding 15.3+hh. 3,500
Bergen Montana 2002 NACHR# 521-D curly bay gelding $12,500
Bergen Ned 2003 NACHR # 778-S bay straight haired gelding, 4,000 as a team with Bergen Marsha.
Bergen Sisko 2006 NACHR # straight haired gelding Monarch/Kriss Sold to Bronc
Bergen Slip - 2006 bay curly gelding small Jordan/Kelly 1,500
Bergen Taurus - 2006 buckskin curly gelding Goldust/Kris 2,500
Bergen Tyrone - 2006 Palomino curly gelding Gold dust/Marsha 2,500
Bergen Tyson - 2006 bay curly colt Jordan/Leila $1,500
Bergen Tegger - 2006 buckskin colt straight haired Gold Dust/Pam $1,000
WCC Simon Spirit - bay very curly gelding $1,500Sold
2008 foals
Bergen Vance - 03 May 08 Jordan/Rusty bay colt (D)
Bergen Victor - 12 May 08 Jordan/Nadine black colt - Owned by Paige Lindbergh
Bergen Varsity - 23 May 08 Jordan/Marsha bay colt
Bergen Uranus - 22 May 08 Dakota/Jordan buckskin colt (D)
Bergen Vaugn - 10 June 08 Bay colt (D) Missy/Saturn - Owned by Quentin Lindbergh
Bergen Venice - 10 June 08 bay filly Nickey/Saturn
Bergen Vadar - 18 July 08 buckskin colt Kriss/Saturn
AQHA BROOD MARES
Skyline Pages Lin 1994 AQHA Chestnut mare $3,500
APHA & CPHA BROOD MARES
Thunders Spanish Miss 1992 CPHA sorrel mare $1,500
WCC Lizzy - 2005 BNC Jiggs/WCC Ethels Diamond $2.500Sold to
Bergen_Mark 2002 bay NACH # S 783 - $1,500(sold to Bronc )
Bergen Midnite 2002 black NACHR # S 790 straight haired gelding $2,500SOLD to Slave Lake
Bergen Tamara Dk/brn grey Laura/Gold dust 1,500SOLD
Fandels Red sold to Doug Holts
Bergen Ronda 2005 bay NACH straight filly (sold to Bronc Gale)
Bergen Rayel 2005 bay NACH curly filly(SOLD) TO Kami Swanson
Destines Golden Sierra 1998 Palomino NACH Straight mare (owned by Alpha Harper)
Padmays Alert 1998 sorrel pinto NACH straight mare (owned by Alpha Harper)
Shypoco Par APHA 624104 - 2001 Bay mare(SOLD) to Danae
NACHR GELDINGS
Bergen Peg 2004 bay NACH curly filly(SOLD TO CYPRESS HILLS CURLIES
Bergen Golden Star 2004 NACH curly buckskin gelding (SOLD TO CYPRESS HILLS CURLIES
Bergen Nick 2003 NACH bay straight gelding(SOLD) to Jack Knox
Bergen Norm 2003 bay NACH straight gelding sold to Doug Holts
Bergen Rodeo Black 2005 NACH curly black colt(SOLD) to Tammy Thompson
Lobstick Kat Olena 2004 AQHA chestnut gelding(SOLD) Doug Holts
Bergen Lil 2001 brown NACH curly mare (sold to Dan Tulloch Richard's Landing Ontario)
Bergen Lisa 2001 bay NACH straight mare (sold to Dan Tulloch Richard's Landing Ontario)