CKM Quarter Horses

11/16/2024

Here is the rundown of our expected 2025 foals.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if a pairing catches your eye - we do accept holds for upcoming foals.
For in utero holds, there is no money involved to place a hold. Names go on the appropriate list for each mare(s), and when the foal is born, I contact holders in the order they are on my list. There’s no obligation - it just gives me a place to start marketing the “new arrivals” as they’re born in the spring. 👍🏼😊

10/30/2024

Got Spencer home from 2 months training with Anna Thiessen! He’s progressing nicely, has a good basic start under saddle, and will have the winter off, to grow and mature. We do hope to further his training in the future, and hopefully start him on cattle. He might get a couple of our own mares in the spring, to see how he does. We won’t have him available standing at stud to outside mares for a while, but potentially once we see some foals and know how he crosses, it’s possible.
Spencer is an own son of our late stallion, Red Eddie Drift, from Eddie’s final foal crop. He’s out of the mare we call Pistol, a granddaughter of the legendary Playgun.

(The moose pics are mostly for my own entertainment… feel free to disregard! 😂🤷🏼‍♀️)

10/29/2024

😔💜

10/29/2024

The loss of a legend…. 😔💜
Proud to say that our stallion, RL Peptocats King (“Re*****on”), goes back to this Great.

Peptoboonsmal, National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Open Futurity Champion died at age 32.

10/25/2024

**STILL WAITING FOR A PLACE TO HANG HIS HALTER!** 🥰💜
This red roan AQHA c**t is looking like he going to be a TANK (yes, capitalized. Big tank. lol). Born May 1, 2024.
Out of a Red Eddie Drift daughter - one we call Nibs. Nibsy is out of an own daughter of PC Boons Feature, who was a maternal grandson of the great Sunfrost. Nibsy stands 15-15.1hh, and is a good thick mare, with a real nice mind. Her foals are athletic, sensitive, and wicked smart! Lol 😊💜
Sired by Re*****on (RL Peptocats King), this c**t has a pedigree top side that should translate into athleticism and brains. Rem goes back to legendaries High Brow Cat, Peptoboonsmal, and Haidas Little Pep. Rem stands 14.3-15hh.
This kid should have the ranch sense and ability to destroy a cow. He should mature to be a good footed, solid ranch/rope horse style gelding, built to do a job and look good doing it! He is shedding out to be red roan (based on his colour at birth, we don’t *believe* he is going to grey, but can’t guarantee that without colour genetics testing). I’d expect him to mature around the same size as his dam - 15-15.1.
Weaned and dewormed. Could be ready to go anytime, and I can do some (basic) halterbreaking if need be!

10/25/2024

Edit: Not our event, not our horses.
This is a herd dispersal, for Spot-A-Quarter paints and quarter horses (Karen Wheelans). Karen was our friend and mentor. She passed this summer, and this is her herd.
Gunner is ok and definitely NOT for sale. Lol. He is just shown here because he is FROM the SAQ program - he is the kind of horse Karen produced. Well built, and good minded. 💜🥰

Spot-A-Quarter Herd Dispersal.
November 22, 2024.
Virden Manitoba.

This is it. The end of an era. This will be a sale to attend if possible! 💜😔

I’ve had more than one SAQ horse over the years, but my favourite is our 2016 AQHA stallion, SAQ Shadow Twoeyed (by Zans Vanilla Frost). I chose him as a foal, because of his solid build and exceptional temperament… I kept him a stud in our program, for the same reasons. It’s something he consistently passes on to his foals, and i have little doubt that it’s the result of Karen’s knowledge and years of experience in the breeding world.
Karen was our friend and mentor as we were just starting out - like I’m sure she was to so many others, and she is greatly missed. She took the time to answer our questions, encourage us when things were tough, and cheered us on thru it all. I miss being able to send her a message to pick her brain, show her a foal that I’m especially proud of, an update on Gunner, or just send her a meme that I knew would make her laugh. She was an incredible lady, a constant in the Manitoba horse community, and to use a phrase I know she would approve of, “one helluva horsewoman”. Lol. 💜
Karen’s life’s work, and her SAQ Legacy will live on here, in Gunner and his offspring. I know many other breeders can say the same, with either stallions or broodmares. Karen had a good eye for a nice horse, she called a spade a spade, and I trusted her opinion… about horses, people, and life. There will be some amazing horses at this sale, because Karen cared so much, and put so much of herself into those horses and that program. 💜
Hope you’re keeping em all on their toes “Up There”, Karen. Lol. We all miss you, but I know you’ll be watching “your horses” from above, and smiling. I sure hope to get to your sale - it’s how we met you, and it would be only fitting to say goodbye that way too. 💜

10/16/2024

Received this picture this morning, and it is too cute not to share (with parental permission, of course!💜).
This is a full sister to our Nibs - she is a 2019 mare, sired by Red Eddie Drift (Eddie), and out of Boons Rusty Nail (Frosty). This is why we have retained 5 Red Eddie Drift daughters, and one son, for our program. This mind, and build… built and bred to be a ranch or cowhorse, but gentle enough to become part of the family! 💜🥰

10/12/2024

Courtesy post - this c**t was bred right here at CKM! Dan and Lorie purchased his dam from us in the winter of 2022. They decided to board her here for a few months until breeding season 2023, and she went home to join the PDR program in the fall! She has settled in, adjusted well, and raised PDR a pretty darn nice c**t! 🥰
Momma’s c**ts are always solidly built, with good foot and bone, and easy going temperaments. Re*****on has complimented Momma quite nicely by the looks of this guy!! He should mature to have the build to work cattle or rope, the breeding to run barrels, and the mind to be quiet enough for a trail or family horse. 💜😊

10/02/2024

Courtesy post, for a friend.
This c**t is sired by Re*****on, and out of the mare we called Momma. Our friend, Lorie at Prairie Dream Ranch Paints and Quarters Horses purchased Momma from us, in foal to Rem. Nice solid c**t here. Should be athletic, strong, and smart!! Nice mix of “run meets cowhorse”. 😊👍🏼 I would expect him to mature around the 15-15.1 mark and be SOLID.
Contact Lorie Marie for details! 😊
Prairie Dream Ranch - Paints and Quarter horses

09/30/2024

Weaning day today for a few more. Babies Ferg and Chey left for their new homes this morning, so we went and picked up most of the foals for weaning day. Baby Dixie is still at pasture to be a friend for Baby Bueno (who is far too young to be weaned yet - he and his momma will come home after a couple of the next foals leave). And we have Fox’s C**t still out with Fox, to be a buddy for a friend’s foal. 💜

09/29/2024

Enjoying the last of the summer warmth this evening. 💜

09/17/2024

**STILL WAITING FOR A PLACE TO HANG HIS HALTER!** 🥰💜
This red roan AQHA c**t is looking like he going to be a TANK (yes, capitalized. Big tank. lol). Born May 1, 2024.
Out of a Red Eddie Drift daughter - one we call Nibs. Nibsy is out of an own daughter of PC Boons Feature, who was a maternal grandson of the great Sunfrost. Nibsy stands 15-15.1hh, and is a good thick mare, with a real nice mind. Her foals are athletic, sensitive, and wicked smart! Lol 😊💜
Sired by Re*****on (RL Peptocats King), this c**t has a pedigree top side that should translate into athleticism and brains. Rem goes back to legendaries High Brow Cat, Peptoboonsmal, and Haidas Little Pep. Rem stands 14.3-15hh.
This kid should have the ranch sense and ability to destroy a cow. He should mature to be a good footed, solid ranch/rope horse style gelding, built to do a job and look good doing it! He is shedding out to be red roan (based on his colour at birth, we don’t *believe* he is going to grey, but can’t guarantee that without colour genetics testing). I’d expect him to mature around the same size as his dam - 15-15.1.
Weaned and dewormed on Sept 15. Could be ready to go anytime, and I can do some (basic) halterbreaking if need be!

09/14/2024

Hi everyone! Weaning time is fast approaching, and we would like to take a minute to thank you all for your likes, shares, words of encouragement, and continued belief in our horses and our program. We have had a good year, raised some solid foals, and met a few new friends/clients!
For those who will be picking up foals in the near future, we ask that all balances owing be evened up (including any accumulated board fees owed), on or before the arranged date of pick up. Foals will not leave our premises (including in our trailer to meet a hauler), until accounts are cleared.
We ask that clients contact us (if not already done so), to arrange for getting accounts cleared, and arrange pick up dates in a timely fashion. Due to having limited corral space, limited hay supply, and some barn/corral construction/improvements in the plans for fall (if all goes well! lol), we cannot have extra horses here any longer than necessary. We ask that foals be picked up by October 31, 2024 at the latest. Details re board accumulation and failure to pick up are shown in the first picture for this post.
Thanks so much for your understanding and cooperation, to help make weaning time work a little smoother on our end! 😊👍🏼

09/05/2024

**NO LONGER LOOKING FOR A BARN OF HIS OWN** 😊💜👍🏼

CKM ZANS POCO DUN (pending)
Gunner x Randi
2024 AQHA Dun C**t
Sired by our buckskin stud, Gunner, this c**t should be versatile and athletic. He was a later foal (May 28), but is catching up quickly. The past two foals (full siblings) have both inherited Gunner's quiet, easygoing, "born broke" nature.
He is correct, and SOLID. Gunner foals are typically easygoing, and generally grow to be nice minded family, trail, cowhorse, or performance horses.

08/31/2024

This c**t just doesn’t take a BAD picture!! He’s been one of the easiest babies to photograph this season… very tidy and correct, and just has a “presence” about him that gets my attention, every single time! Lol.
As of Thursday evening, this kid has got a new family to call his own, and a new place to hang his halter when he’s weaned! He’s been spoken for, and is going to go be a cowhorse, like he was bred and born to do! 🥰💜
This is a Re*****on x Ducky baby. I’ve already got someone with an In Utero hold on a filly from this cross next spring, but still have a c**t hold available. Shoot me a message for more details on how our In Utero holds work. 😊👍🏼

08/29/2024

CKM Zans Poco Dun could be your next best friend. He’s still looking to find a barn and family of his own.
Solidly built and correct, and sired by our buckskin stud, Gunner. He was born May 28, so is our 3rd youngest foal this season. But he’s filling out and catching up to the other Gunner babies.
This guy will have the build to work a cow, and the temperament to trail ride or be a family horse. Pedigree in the second last pic. Info in the last pic.