Mountain View's Seminole is a International Champion!!!  On Wednesday, September 14th, 2005, Seminole won the 3-year-old stallion under saddle championship at the Rocky Mountain Horse Association's International Championship show.  The class was so huge it had to be split.  Seminole made the cut to be in the final class and went on to win.  I was so excited when they announced the winner that my friends had to take my video camera away from me because I was bouncing up and down so much.  The competition in that class was fierce.  Looking back I think the deciding factor was Seminole's silky smooth, natural, four beat gait.

Mountain View's Seminole (formerly J.D.) was bought from Paul Pence as a weanling.  Seminole has since turned into a very sweet chocolate with flaxen mane and tail stallion with beautiful conformation.  He has 3 socks, a partial ringlet on the forth foot and a VERY faint star.  He will be tall... right now I would guess 15.2.  Seminole is registered with the Rocky Mountain Horse Association.  He is everything a Rocky Mountain Horse stallion should be.  He traces back to Tobe, the breed's foundation stallion, 18 times.  Thus, deriving 25% of his genetics from Tobe.  His dam is an old mare that is from good solid gaited mountain horse stock that has been being bred in that area for generations.  She is also the grand-dam of Trojan's Fancy.

Over the 4th of July weekend (in 2004 when Seminole was just a two year old and only had 90 days training) he proved himself as a wonderful demo horse also.  The family that bought one of my fillies came with a friend to help them on the long drive home.  He used to ride quarter horses but had never ridden a rocky mountain horse.  Seminole made him look like a pro and put a grin on his face from ear to ear.  The next day we invited him to come back for a trail ride.  He rode Seminole while I and my trainer rode mares (remember he just got introduced to breeding within the last month).  Half way through our ride, it started to pour rain, so we took refuge in a nearby hay barn until it could blow over.  Of course the barn was full of hay rolls and a tractor so we had to wedge ourselves in the doorway as best we could.  There he stood quietly on a loose rein for some time, nose to nose with one mare and standing next to the other while it poured rain (with thunder and lightening).  Afterward, we completed our trail ride.  To me this is what the Rocky Mountain Horse is all about.

Mountain View's Seminole has had his first foal... take a look at this filly.

For additional pictures of Seminole click here.