How She's Grown!

[LPacker79]

I received a nice little surprise in my email this morning. This lovely lady was foaled in 2000, and was sold as a weanling. These are the first pictures I've seen of her now that she's mature. She's definitely a tribute to her pedigree, and is a chestnut version of her sire.

Her name is Silk Sachet, aka "Lacey." Here she is at just a few days old:

And here she is now, at age 5.

Here's her sire, Mashallah Muzrif, aka "Snick."

 

[Socrates]

GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!! Totally stunning, magnificant mare! :drool:

I hope I didn't miss it in your post, is she Arabian?

Awesome pictures, please post more of that chestnut beauty if you have them, or even of her dad and mom. :clap:

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Wendy
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[LPacker79]

Those 4 pictures are the only ones I have of her now, I have others of her as a foal, and many of her sire, but I'd have to upload them. Perhaps I'll do that tonight.

Yes, she's Arabian. Her sire is a multi champion Egyptian related stallion, grandson to Nabiel and *Tuhotmos. Her dam is a Polish/Crabbet bred daughter of The Chief Justice, which in itself makes her pretty damn special.

Thanks for the compliments, I think she's grown up well!

 

[Brian F.]

Just gorgeous! That's the one thing I don't have the room for! Best of luck...

 

[LPacker79]

For Wendy. More pictures of Lacey's sire, Mashallah Muzrif:

With my trainer's assistant Sunny, who is over 6 feet tall:

With my trainer's son Raymond (age 12), going reserve champion in the Country english pleasure, amateur to ride class at the 1997 Egyptian Event in Kentucky. Raymond was the only one in his class on a stallion, and the only one on a green horse. He was also the only rider under 30 years of age. He received lots of compliments from his competitors that day! As a sidenote, the Arabian breed is one of the few who allow riders under the age of 18 to show stallions.

One lonely pic of Lacey's dam, Shilo SilknSatin aka "Satin." Picture was taken at 21 years of age if I recall correctly. Poor Satin had had a hard life before we purchased her in 1989, including a bad experience at a very well known trainer's. She was slightly "crazy" because of it. She was not rideable because of the previous trainer's idiocy, and simple tasks like bathing and grooming were almost out of the question. She actually calmed down quite a bit a year or so after we got her. I guess having a home and not being bounced around all over the country from owner to owner did her some good. But her foals all had good minds, which is what really matters in the long run.

More pics of Lacey:

And here she is in that awful weanling stage. I swear, no foal looks good at that age. She would have been around 6 or 7 months old in this picture.

 

[Socrates]

Thanks so very very much for the pictures, Leanne. I've got goosebumps right now from looking at them, and from reading about Lacey's mom's life before you got her.

You were totally right in your first post - Lacey is the spitting image of her dad.

Arabian horses truly are the gems of the horse world, aren't they? So beautiful and graceful. And smart, too.

Thanks again - I love the pictures.

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Wendy
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[horselover]

I was just searching the web site and i saw the pictures of your horses they are super pretty the grey one is beautiful. I was just wondering do u own all of these horses?

 

[LPacker79]

I was just searching the web site and i saw the pictures of your horses they are super pretty the grey one is beautiful. I was just wondering do u own all of these horses?

Thank you. I did own these horses at one time, we had a total of around 25 horses here at one point, all Arabians of straight Egyptian or Egyptian related bloodlines.
About 3/4 of them were various shades of gray, ranging from that mousy "just turning grey" color, to pure snow white (also considered grey).

 

[horselover]

oh wow thats alot of horses you must have been busy. but its seems like i have seen that grey horse around at the shows his name sounds really familiar.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Arabian horses truly are the gems of the horse world, aren't they? So beautiful and graceful. And smart, too.

I agree. My mom used to have Arabians when we lived at the ranch in Agua Dulce. They are awesome. Leanne, beautiful pictures. I wish I wasn't allergic to horses.

 

[LPacker79]

oh wow thats alot of horses you must have been busy. but its seems like i have seen that grey horse around at the shows his name sounds really familiar.

Unless it was an Arabian show, you wouldn't have seen him. We showed in Scottsdale, Illinois, Kentucky (at the horse park for the Egyptian Event every year), Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, as well as the Class A Arab shows here in MI.

 

[horselover]

ya actually i think i saw him at an arab show here in MI this summer cause in the show results i have it shows he won a class i was in with my horse but i remember him being white inside of grey he must of lost his color. That must of been fun showing at all them shows like egyptian event

 

[LPacker79]

Yeah, Snicker has lightened up considerably the past couple years, as typically happens with greys. When we sold the farm and the horses, we gave Snicker to our trainer's son since those two got along so well together. They gelded him so he could show him on his high school equestrian team (no stallions allowed). Snick's now owned by a nice young girl who's having a blast with him! I'll be going to Shiawassee to see him show at the youth show the end of this month, I haven't seen him since he left my trainer's place.

The Egyptian Event was definitely one of my favorite shows ever. That was the show we all looked forward to every year, despite my almost getting plowed over by Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and his cronies in a golf cart the first year I went. He's actually a nice man who bought a black filly from my trainer a few years ago, but at the time I was just pissed that he wasn't watching where he was going (I was on the sidewalk!).
In 98 I was supposed to show Snick in the amateur halter class at the Event, but chickened out at the very last minute. Had the horse, had my whip, was dressed and ready to go, and completely chickened out. It's just as well, Patrick Swayze ended winning the class like he always does.