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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
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Well the hustle and bustle of the Holidays have come and gone. I was very blessed to get some incredible Christmas gifts but one of them was so very special to me I just had to share it on my Home page. My good friend Laura Behning painted (yes this is watercolor paints, unbelievable huh?) this beautiful head shot of my beloved
boy, MtnTop Whippoorwill Tanek. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do. Thank you Laura.
Now we are just hanging on moving through the rough winter months. I am also very
thankful that we decided to have an
indoor arena built last year and I have put it to good use every day and wondering how I ever did without it.
Spring is just around the corner and I have 3 foals due in late March. Tan War Bird (Birdie) and Universal Selection (Faith)
are both in foal to MtnTop Whippoorwill Tanek for a guaranteed black based foal. Faiths' foal will be colorful. And BRMF
The Yellow Rose (Rose) is in foal to Gone Gold. I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed for a colorful foal here but it will be lovely either way.
At my mom's farm in FL, Spring Lake Farm. They have had their first foal of the year born on Saturday January 9, 2010 a BIG beautiful black
colt by Spring Lake Pallidin and out of Gar-Don Mystic Jade. Unless things fall through this foal has already been sold.
I will post pictures anyways as soon as they are sent to me.
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Mtn Top Morgans
Kristal Homoki
15126 US 12
Brooklyn, MI 49230
517-414-6095
mtntopmorgans@yahoo.com
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Spring Lake Farm
Niven Owings
2707 Spring Lake Rd
Lake Wales, FL 33898
(863)676-7476
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VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!
Updated:
February 2, 2010
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