The Quietude Stud
is located in a high mountain valley
in West Virginia. We farm 475 acres
& our herd of over seventy Clean-Blooded
Lambert Morgans have many acres of bluegrass
pasture to roam in. We stand seventeen
stallions and our broodmare band numbers
close to thirty mares. 2006 we had a
dozen foals. Our Morgans are healthy,
hardy & durable. They are historically
known for their intelligence, athleticism,
strong bone, grand Lambert trot and
excellent conformation as well as their
kind, sound minds.
QUIETUDE
SEASHORE (Quietude Indian Summer x Quietude Mandolay)
Recently Seashore arrived at his
new home in MA with Shelia King.
Hi Susan,
Hope all is well with you. Things are great with
me. Seashore is such an awesome horse and I become
more and more aware of that each time I see him and
work with him.
He is settling into
the barn quite well. He goes out to pasture with
our old mare Libby and there has not been any trouble
at all. As a matter or fact before Seashore came
Libby would tolerate being out for a very short time
– maybe an hour if we were lucky. After a very
short time she would go to the gate and just stand there
looking at the barn. Now she is very content to stay
out with her new friend, Seashore, and will continue
to graze and move around the pasture for hours on end.
Seashore is so sensible and
calm when it comes to new things too. Yesterday Nancy
and I put a fly mask on him to see what size he needed.
The flies and bugs up here are really fierce and the
other day when he was out they seemed to be really bothering
him. He just stood there as we put this funny contraption
on his head and Nancy proceeded to play peek-a-boo looking
up at him under it. He is such a good boy and
Nancy is constantly commenting how good and sensible
he is. I think she is really impressed with him
and has come to realize that although he is young he
is different from any other young horse she has ever
worked with. He is very willing to do what you
ask him and remains calm and quiet during situations
that would cause other horses to act up.
His first day
here after he had been off the trailer for a while Nancy
suggested I bring him into the barn. We had been
standing in the middle of the driveway and I asked him
to walk on…which he did – right on the back of my shoe.
I then managed to get my legs twisted and boom fell
right on the ground in front of him. He just stood
there – no problem – I think I even reach out and used
his chest for support as I got up off the ground.
His only reaction was to look at me rather curiously.
I’m sure he was trying to figure out what I was doing
down there. The next day I left work early and
went to the barn. I was expecting some people
to come to see Seashore and wanted him to look his best
so I put his halter on, and took him out to groom him.
It made perfect sense to me to just put him on the cross
ties so I could groom him. He moved his front
legs a little at first but once I talked to him and
got him to stand still he stood still the entire time.
It wasn’t until later when I talked to Nancy that I
discovered that it is not a good idea to put a horse
on cross ties by yourself the first time. I guess
it can be quite frightening for them and they and you
can get into a lot of trouble. Oh well, you always
told me Seashore and I would be good for each other
that he would take care of me as I take care of him.
I become more and more aware of that each day.
I can’t tell you how happy I am.
My family and friends who have seen
Seashore so far are just overwhelmed by how handsome
he is. So am I every time I look at him.
I believe they have taken a lot of pictures of him and
me but I have not seen any of them yet. I have
the real thing – who needs pictures. But I will ask
them to send them to me because I would like to send
some to you and Steve so we can get some on the website.
THE WILD
& 'WOOLY' FAR WEST ADVENTURES OF JASON BLAKNEY
& SNOWY RIVER BAY KNIGHT, A STALLION SON OF QUIETUDE
MERIT
Several years
ago you bred a mare for my parents Tom and Diane Blakeney.
She was a Morgan mare they had found with sound bloodlines
and a price they couldn't say no to. They bred
her to your Quietude Merit. Snowy Creeks Bay
Knight was the result. I pulled him from his mother
the day he was born in our back yard in Preston County
VA.
Over the next few years we moved to Maine and my parents
decided it was time to sell the horses. Finances
were tight, me and my sister Heather were in college
and Erin and Evan weren't riding much any more.
When they told me they were going to sell Bay Knight
I had to think hard. I called them back and told
them to sell Geronimo my Mustang gelding that I had
grown up with most of my life. They could keep the money
from him in exchange for Bay Knight. They didn't
care much about getting the money they just couldn't
afford to feed their horses. Me and Heather sent
money home for our horses feed.
I was a little unsure of the exchange as Geronimo had
been my horse for years and was the horse I thought
my kids might learn how to ride on some day. But
Bay Knight has proven himself worthy. We
have spent two summers herding sheep in the mountains
of Wyoming together. He produces very Morgan type
foals even when bred to our Arabs, Mustangs, or Curlys.
A couple of years ago me and my wife Stephanie were
volunteering at a mission on the Navajo reservation
in New Mexico. We left for a couple of days to
drive a student to his family in Colorado. When
we returned we found Bay Knight missing!!
We jumped in the truck and drove down dirt road after
dirt road searching hundreds of square miles of desert.
A few hours later we saw a small band of horses about
8 miles off. As we drove closer we noticed a lone
horse staying 1/2 mile to a mile away from the rest
of the band. Then a horse from the band broke away running
for the loner. I knew by the way it ran it was
Bay Knight, and why he had left the mission.
He had himself a nice little band of wild mares he won
after chasing off the band stallion (the lone horse
keeping his distance from the band).
The wild horses were used to trucks being out on the
dirt roads so we drove up nice and easy and I whistled
out the window. Bay Knight came trotting up and
stuck his head inside the truck were Steph gave him
a Granola bar she had and put his halter on. Except
for a few cuts and scratches from fighting the wild
stud he was fine. Just had him a few nights out on
the town!
So, we have established that Lamberts are athletic,
yes? Just thought I'd share this extremely
entertaining incident that happened to me and Airy
(Quietude Arioso) this week. I have a lot of friends
that rodeo professionally. Anyway, my Farrier
came out to trim my mares. Tim (Farrier) is
a PRCA bareback rider. He and one of my students
Justin (also a bareback rider) were standing and
talking as Tim worked. Tim kept going on about
how great Morgan feet were, loved the shape, could
take abuse and then shape up really well with proper
trimming, etc. Soon the conversation changed
from Airy's feet to how flashy she was. "I
mean she would be really cool in photographs with
all that long blonde mane." It was decided
that Airy was a "really cool looking horse."
From color we went to conformation. Tim decided
that she was really well put together. Justin
started in on feet and legs, Tim returned that
her neck and shoulder tied in really well and he
expected that she would make a heck of a bucking
horse. Apparently she should be able to
hold up well because of how well she was put together
and seemed athletic enough to really be able to
buck well if she set her mind to it. The entire
situation cracked me up!! So Susan, you
can add rodeo bucking horses to the list of activities
that Lamberts are apparently conformationally suited
for ;) Too funny!
But seriously, both of these make their living
with horses and recognize good, sound, usable conformation
and it made me feel good that they liked my little
Lambert so much :)
