I am very blessed to be a third generation Morgan breeder and owner. I work in conjunction with my mother Niven Owings, whose Spring Lake Farm is centrally located in Lake Wales, FL. My great aunt Ethel Gardner started our breeding program 50 years ago this year with her great stallion, The Yankee (Whippoorwill Duke X Jenny Lake). She instilled a strong sense in me that the Morgan Horse should be a versatile horse. Pick your horse for his correct conformation, intelligence, disposition and versatility; then pick your discipline, change your discipline, use the same horse. With the Morgan this is easy to do as they are known for their quick and flexible minds, calm and steady way of going- along with their BIG loving hearts. To learn more about my great aunt and the contribution she made to the Morgan Horse world, please read this article about her from the August 2003 issue of The Morgan Horse magazine, titled "Yankee Ingenuity", written by Sue Brander.

Our hopes are to produce foals that match or exceed the expectations that we have of their parents. In essence, each foal should be better than the sire and dam. This results in a classic Morgan, with a chiseled head and tippy ears, a full curvy body along with strong sturdy legs and fabulous “Morgan” feet. By carefully selecting and matching mares to stallions, we believe that is what we are accomplishing at our farms. Because of this, sometimes we only produce a few foals each year, but I think it is worth the wait.

Our foundation lines are rich in old blood, with such respected Morgans as Squire Burger, Lippitt, Flyhawk, Ulendon, Blackwood Correll, Mentor, Californio, Archie O, Swanee and Gay Dancer featured in their pedigrees. We are honored to have some of the closest living relatives to Figure in our herds.

At MtnTop Morgans in Brooklyn, MI we have been able to add a few colorful Morgans that we hope will have a great influence on the foals we produce. Above and beyond, we strive to produce the “perfect foal”; if this foal also happens to be colorful, then that is wonderful too.

What's Happening at MtnTop Morgans

For Sale - 2010 smoky black filly, MtnTop Eternal Hope (MtnTop Whippoorwill Tanek x Universal Selection). Born March 18th she is 3 months and 3 weeks old in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCp4CFN8NPQ

Well I never got around to just doing her leading and hoof trimming video when she was younger so you get a combined video of all her training here. I think it was worth the wait. This beauty and brains all Morgan filly shows you so much of her talent and personality while she loads in the trailer (the first foal to learn that this year) walk our little trail course and stand while at the mount. I was very pleased with how she handled the saddle pad, American flag, fly spray and being clipped as this once only her SECOND time seeing or feeling any of these things. And doesn't she just look so cute putting her feet up on the hoof jack to be trimmed? Add to that her beautiful breeding and cream gene and she will an asset to any breeding program along with being your best friend. Payment plans available please go to the for sale page for more pictures and information. Her price includes transfer of her AMHA registration papers, coggins, US Health certificate along with continuing her monthly deworming and monthly hoof trimming until she sells. And in the summer heat we are willing to offer her free board until September 2010.


FOR SALE - 2010 BIG, BOLD, BAY and BEAUTIFUL! MtnTop Erin Go Braugh (MtnTop Whippoorwill Tanek x Tan War Bird) Born on St Patrick's day, Erin is about 3 months and 3 weeks old in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46UmxDUY6fc

I have already done a video of this sweetie girl getting her feet trimmed and leading back in May of this year so I didn't put that in here. Erin is so smart and easy going and I could not have been prouder of her behavior. In this video introducing her to the saddle pad, flag, fly spray, the level to measure her and clipping her was all her VERY FIRST time!!!! Shows she has the brains and loves to learn. I will tell you if you are looking for big and all Morgan she is it. She isn't even 4 months old yet and as you can see from the level in the video she is almost 12 hands. All her siblings (half and full are tall and certainly retain Morgan type). Put some height in your breeding program she can do that along with the benefit that she is EEAa (so she is homozygous for black with one agouti gene) she will NEVER give you chestnut offspring. Payment plans available; please go to the for sale page for more pictures and information. Her price includes transfer of her AMHA registration papers, coggins, US Health certificate along with continuing her monthly deworming and monthly hoof trimming until she sells. And in the summer heat we are willing to offer her free board until September 2010.


NOT FOR SALE - already SOLD, but check out our other foals you won't be disappointed. MtnTop Kerria of Gold (Gone Gold x BRMF The Yellow Rose) 2010 palomino filly. Here she is doing all she has been taught (since I already did a hoof trimming and leading video back in May of this year, I didn't add that in this video). I was pleased as punch with her as she had never had the saddle pad, fly spray or even seen the American flag until today. What a trooper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDGX_IGgOaA


I have been given permission from the owner of this horse to share this video (name of horse and owner not provided for privacy reasons). Horse is NOT for sale. This is the 60 days training video of this horse. Horse has only been under saddle about 45 days. There is also a trail riding video of the horse on YouTube. I think you can see the big difference from the 30 day to the 60 day video here. The horse has control over her hips and haunches, uses her back as well and because of this you can see that she has the idea of side passing. This was her third time to try at side passing. This horse has not ever had a training "aide" used on her- not that I don't agree with them or use them when needed, but they are NOT used to "train" a horse to carry itself correctly or use its back properly. If any of these "aides" are needed they are added later AFTER the horse has learned the necessary movement or head set. She is also learning the idea of speed control and how your seat and leg comes into play with that. She has the basic understanding of moving from a bigger trot down to a nice jog. Also her transitions are coming along nicely. Stay tuned for her 90 days training video, I am excited for that one as well. **Disclosure: ALL horses learn and retain information at a different rate depending on the horse, its level of training coming here, and whether it is a problem horse or not. This is just an example of how this horse is progressing. For more information please go to Horses for sale and training.

60 days training video
30 day training video, same horse
trail riding video, same horse