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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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Sunday October 12th was a lovely fall day in Southern Michigan with warm 70+ degree weather. We hooked up the trailer
and took a 100 mile jaunt up to the lovely 4500 acre Genesee recreational area just
east of
Flint, Michigan where we (along with 4 other new acquaintances) met up with Anne Wyland
at her farm, Ancan Morgans.
The fall foliage was lovely and we made several stops to snap pictures of the bright colors of red,
yellow, orange and green. Anne and Blitz led us through the winding and sometimes narrow trails
along the river. We came across and conquered our obstacles of logs, bridges, the rivers, streams,
and one very deep mud hole (which some of the horses opted to jump, much to the riders surprise).
Once in the park we came across some minis that had been driving in the park earlier in the day
and we were all drawn to a little silver dapple guy that was just too cute. The horses then went
for a quick dip in the lake (that's Katie and Kristal above, photo courtesy of
Anne Wyland) and took turns splashing along the shore line, trotting and making waves.
We're
not sure who had more fun, the horses or the riders! But needless to say we all got fairly wet.
We blazed through the trails in just 4 ½ hours and made it back to Anne’s farm just as the sun was setting.
It certainly would have been lovely to stay longer but we had the long ride home and had to get to work the next day.
Thank you Anne for such a lovely trip.
Our daughter Brittany has really bonded with Roadie and has been riding him
regularly. Here they are on an early October photo shoot; we're still busy getting photos of everyone to use in our fall
and winter advertising. Be sure and visit the stallions and mares pages to see the results!
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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:
October 28, 2008
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