Boisvert Farms

03/25/2025

Yoshi!! Sure wish the grass was green like in this picture!! He is such a hunk!

03/14/2025

Bloodline of Influence - The Colorado Ranger Horse, Patches.

The Sugarbush Harlequin Draft is a breed with an amazing history, and it is built on the dreams made reality of our founder, Mr. Everett Smith. However, Mr. Smith was not the only man to see the benefits of combining Appaloosa and Draft traits. Another of those legendary horseman is Mike Ruby, the founder of the oldest LP breed in America, predating even the Appaloosa Horse Club, the Colorado Rangerbred Horse.

Mr. Ruby used several descendants of drafts in his new breed program, but one of the horses that founded it all was Patches, CRHA #1. The breed registry, The Colorado Ranger Horse Association, was started in 1935, beating out the Appaloosa Horse Club by several months. Today, it's thought that as many as one in eight ApHC Appaloosas is CRHA qualified by having the required lineage to Patches, or CRHA #2 stallion, Max.

Patches was the result of quite a lot of careful crossbreeding. Born in 1918 and described as 'cream, black, and white', his sire, Tony, was a double bred grandson of the grey Arabian stallion 'Leopard', who had been gifted to general Ulysses S Grant alongside another stallion, Linden Tree. Patches' dam was an LP draft cross mare, Judy. Her sire, Spot, was sired by a half Shire, half Percheron stallion named 'Chancelor', and her dam, Mollie III, was at least 3/4 Percheron. This made Patches himself roughly thirty percent draft at minimum, and possibly even more than that as Mollie, his great-granddam of unknown breeding, was noted by Mr. Ruby to have pulled a milk wagon.

But, the draft influence didn't stop at Patches! Quite a few founding CRHA mares had draft influence of their own. Several were sired by the Shire stallion, Albert Lee. One of the foals resulting in a cross of Patches to a daughter of Albert Lee was Black Mane, described by a CRHA Booklet as "One of the greatest mares the Plains ever knew." Black Mane was a prolific dam, producing several CRHA foals all at minimum 20% draft by different stallions. The blood of Patches is found in a majority of modern CRHA registered and qualified horses today, carrying his Percheron and Shire influence through time. It is easy to pick out those good traits in many of the Colorado Ranger Horses we know and love - hardy builds, good bone, and excellent temperaments.

Today, ASHDA benefits from the influence of these bloodlines by using dual registered Appaloosas which also carry the Colorado Ranger Horse breeding in their pedigrees. Patches can be found in the bloodlines of several ASHDA Hall of Fame horses including Rorschach's Hextatic, Stonewall Virginia, and Hexenhammer and their descendants, as well as in the pedigrees of multiple notable ASHDA horses across all books of the registry such as Twisted Heiress, Rip, Wisconsin's Charity, Rockin Mighty Belle and more!

It's great to see so much in common with a great breed founded almost a century ago and our horses of today, and to benefit from that influence in so many of the foals born for ASHDA. If you own a registered ApHC Appaloosa, there's a one in eight chance your horse is also a Colorado Rangerbred, and if you own a registered Main Book or Heritage American Sugarbush Harlequin Draft, the chances are even higher for having a horse carrying those historical bloodlines! A special thank you to CRHA breed historian, Sherry Byrd for her tireless work to record the accurate history behind the breeds that help make ours!

📸 RTD's Sugarbush YouNeedIt, an E-Designation ASHDA filly bred by Rockin the Dots and owned by ASHDA Lifetime Member, Randall Napier, and a descendant of CRHA #1, Patches.

12/28/2024

So much MUD everywhere! All the animals are filthy ☹️

12/27/2024

11/30/2024

SHE WOULD MAKE AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS PRESENT!!! For your consideration: O My Sweet Angel, 2012 mare. Registered American Sugarbush Harlequin Draft -00008. UTD on shots, worming and was just trimmed. Rides and drives. Would make a great husband/grandma horse. Great disposition. 6 panel n/n. $X,###

11/30/2024

1999 Featherlite 4 horse trailer for sale. Excellent condition, clean, good tires, pulls great! Title in hand. $14,500

11/01/2024

Hello November! Hard to believe there’s only two months left in 2024. It brings about a deeper sense of Fall, and everything wonderful that comes with this time of year. Who doesn’t love the beautiful colors, the crisp chilly nights and the enjoyment of watching horses frolic in the chilly Autumn air?

Enjoying a nice gallop with a colorful Fall backdrop is ASHDA Approved Cross stallion, Zippin’ Kelo, aka Duke, owned by Boisvert Farms in Wisconsin.

From all of us at ASHDA, we wish everyone a wonderful Friday!

10/28/2024

ASHDA Approved Dam, C My Bobby Sox, looking quite lovely in the afternoon sun! She is owned by Boisvert Farms.

Appaloosas are the only acceptable light breed which can get Approval with ASHDA, and can produce Main Book foals when crossed on ASHDA Approved or Registered horses that are full draft.

If you think your horse is a candidate for ASHDA Approval and are interested in applying, be sure to contact us!

📸 by Mary Boisvert

10/25/2024

New to me trailer!!

10/17/2024

We'd like to congratulate Boisvert Farms on their purchase of two ASHDA Heritage horses Aine des Fermes Boisvert and her 2024 fewspot c**t, Sugarbush Festival. We're sure they are super happy to have "Darby" back in their barn, as her original breeders and her beautiful c**t is a great bonus!

Welcome back to Wisconsin, Darby!

10/16/2024

Let’s try this again with the correct horse 😁 Guess who is coming home?

10/13/2024

Welcome back home Darby and your beautiful c**t!!! So happy to have you back!

10/01/2024

09/29/2024

09/29/2024

My Rose…she was such a great mare!

Rosamunde was the very first Sugarbush Harlequin Draft mare. A daughter of the percheron Sugarbush Felina Del Noche and sired by Michael Muir's Stonewall Domino. She was inducted into the ASHDA Hall of Fame this year and produced foals for several programs over her 20 years of life, including the Sugarbush Hitch Co. Her offspring include SHC Charlie D, Sugarbush Katydid, Sugarbush O's Livin Legacy, O My Sweet Angel, Aeval des Fermes Boisvert, Aego de Fermes Boisvert, Alsa des Fermes Boisvert, and Aven de Fermes Boisvert. She has plenty of grandfoals too!