Kalahar Quarter Horses

08/18/2024

2024 red roan filly
Sire:HK Top Image
Dam:HKRoanRuby
Just 4 and a half months old and is looking fantastic.

06/30/2024

This is the HK Top Image X HKROANRUBY filly. She has changed a lot since the last time I posted pictures of her.

06/05/2024

Our stallion HK Top Image traces back to Leo on both his Sire and Dam line.

Who would spend $2,500 for a crippled horse in 1947? Bud Warren knew how it looked. “I was the biggest chump in Oklahoma,” he said. But history proved otherwise.

By 1951, Leo had become the leading sire of 2-year-old Register of Merit qualifiers, three of his get held four track records, the “chump” was one of the leading breeders of Quarter running horses, and everyone had long since stopped laughing.

Leo himself had been quite the racehorse, before being injured in a trailer accident in Mexico, then suffering additional insult when he was being moved aboard a train boxcar that got lost in transit, then being kicked in the stifle by a mare he was breeding. But his genetics remained true.

In addition to siring speed, Leo also became known as a sire of top performance horses, and in 1989, he was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. Learn more about him in the May-June American Quarter Horse Journal, one of your great AQHA member benefits.

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05/18/2024

Happy Birthday HK Top Image he turns 21 today.

05/07/2024

For this week's 'Meet the Mare Monday,' we are highlighting My Blue Angel, a four-year-old mare not yet a broodmare but with plans for breeding this year to produce a foal next year. She is sired by HK Top Image and out of Macs Uptown N Plenty, making her a full sister to HK Top Miss, the mare we highlighted last week.

05/04/2024

Pictures of the foal by HK Top Miss. This is her only foal so far, but we think she nailed it!

05/03/2024

Throwback Thursday to Macs Top Miss as a baby. We try to have babies born after the snow. But this was the day after she was born April 15 2018. So they got a little turn out time that day before coming back into the warm barn. She had more fun then her Mom😂

04/30/2024

We are showcasing Macs Top Miss this week. She is a 2018 bay roan mare by HK Top Image and out of Macs Uptown N Plenty. She had her first foal for us last year and produced a really nice stud c**t by HK Blue Sky. She is open this year. But will be bred back for next year.

04/26/2024

These are the five foals out of Macs Maggie Mae.

04/25/2024

Macs Uptown Miss the dam to Macs Maggie Mae. We bought this mare, to show, from Warren Ploeger when she was 18. Many people who knew Warren were surprised about this mare and the Macs Uptown N Plenty mare, whom we later purchased, and whom was on her side when we bought this mare. The reason for the surprise, for those who don't know, is because Warren was considered a "halter man". He bought this "pleasure mare" because she was had very nice conformation for a pleasure mare and he always wanted to try raising a good pleasure baby. He did just that in the Macs Uptown N Plenty mare. In the next couple weeks the mares we will be showcasing go back to this mare. Much like the Sonnys Illusive Lady mare, we pointed out before, this mare also became a cornerstone of our breeding program.

04/24/2024

The mare we are showcasing this week is Macs Maggie Mae. She is by HK Top Image and out of Macs Uptown Miss. She is the dam to five foals, including a reserve world champion. Unfortunately, we won't be having any foals out of her this year, but will be bred for next year.

04/19/2024

Pictures of the five foals that HK Blue Sky has sired. It's not a very big selection, but if you look I think you will notice some similarities. If you now own one of these foals we would love to see an updated picture in the comments.

04/19/2024

HK Blue Sky as a baby

04/18/2024

HKFancyRoanLady
This is the Dam to HK Blue Sky the blue roan stud we are highlighting this week. If you've been following along, the week of March 18th we highlighted this mare and on March 29th she had her foal. Unfortunately the foal did not make it. At the time Fancy was doing well but very blue. Unfortunately, we have had a lot of lose this year, and on April 1st, we lost Fancy, too. Fortunately we still have HK Blue Sky to pass on the genetics of this great mare.

04/16/2024

Zanzablue 2001 blue roan the sire to HK Blue Sky. Harold bought him and used him as a pasture stud. He had two foal crops for us. Unfortunately, he had to be put down after severing a tendon in one of his hind legs.

04/16/2024

HK Blue Sky is a 2015 blue roan we raised by ZanzaBlue and out of HKFancyaRoanLady. Unfortunately, we were not able to get any of our mares bred to him last year, so we won't be having any of our own foals by him this year. We plan to breed him to a couple mares this year, so hopefully we will have a few come next year. Luke, as we call him, has sired five nice foals for us. He has been under utilized for a while now. We are hoping to use him more in the years to come. If you are looking for a stallion to breed your mare to come take a look he's worth it whether you breed to him or not.

04/15/2024

A few pictures of the the HK Top Image X HKRoanRuby filly at 12 days old. Grateful to have her. Hope to have one more foal in May.

04/12/2024

I'm sharing a selection of foals by HK Top Image, but there are many more. I plan to create albums of all our pictures in the future. If you have a foal from HK Top Image, please share it with us in the comments!

04/11/2024

Shi Miss Leo
1998 red roan mare
She is the dam to HK Top Image. We bought this mare as a baby from Ed Weaklend. She had many good foals for us. Many of them went on to run barrels or rope. She passed away in 2020.

04/10/2024

HKS Top Priority
1993 Gray
This is the sire to HK Top Image, aka Topper. He sired many foals in both quarter and paint with several winners in different futurities. He produced foals that earned their halter and performance ROMs in all divisions and a youth AQHA champion. He was born and raised by Kalahar Quarter Horses, in 1999 a good friend, Warren Ploeger, approached Harold about buying him. They settled on a half interest deal. He would stand at Ploeger's farm from Feburary to April and would then finish out each breading season at Kalahar Quarter Horses. He passed away the spring of 2007.

04/09/2024

HK Top Image our 2003 red roan stallion by HKS Top Priority and out of Shi Miss Leo. If you have been following along the last four Mondays, I have highlighted the four mares that were having foals for us this year. So this week I'm going to highlight one of the studs that two of the foals will be out of this year(one of which has already been born). There is so much we could talk about with him we could probably write a book. In May he will turn 21 years old. During those 21 years we have used or tried to use close to a dozen other stallions, with varying success. This does not include stallions we have bred out to. In an article in March of 1979, Western Horseman talked to legendary horse breeder Hank Wiescamp, when talking about stallions he mentioned that you can't tell if a stud will make a great sire by one or two foal crops and that often you will never know until it is too late. His meaning was that they are too old or no longer living. That is a very accurate statement in Kalahar Quarter Horses almost 60 years of raising foals and our many past stallions. With HK Top Image turning 21 years old this year I can say that in 2018 we had a very long look at what we were and had been raising for foals. We realized that going back to the traits and genetics that HK Top Image passes on to his foals was and is what was best. Even after all these years he just holds up. He is just a darn good horse.

04/06/2024

Pictures of all the foals Notice Me Uptown has had to date. 2021 red roan filly by HK Top Image, she is in Pennsylvania, and a 2022 black c**t by HK Top Image, he went to Missouri. Her foals are just reaching riding age. Both are pictured as babies.

04/05/2024

Throwback Thursday of Notice Me Uptown as a baby.

04/03/2024

Macs Uptown N Plenty
This bay mare is the mother to Notice Me Uptown.We bought this mare from a good friend, Warren Ploeger, as a coming two year old and showed her in 4-H and open shows till she was six. She is by congress champion Macs Good N Plenty and out of Macs Uptown Miss a point earner and producer.

04/03/2024

My Final Notice
This is the sire to Notice Me Uptown, the blue roan mare we showcased yesterday. He is a world-renowned stallion who was able to accomplish quite a bit in both the show pen and the breeding barn. We were lucky to be able to breed too him and get a nice mare to add to our herd.

04/01/2024

For today's meet the mare Monday we are showcasing Notice Me Uptown aka Becky a 2015 blue roan mare. She is by world and congress champion producing sire My Final Notice and out of Macs Uptown N Plenty. She will be having her third foal and is due the middle of May. She is bred to HK Top Image.

04/01/2024

Things didn't start off the way we wanted to this foaling season. But today we get to say hello to a new filly by HK Top Image and out of HKRoanRuby. Too early to tell for sure what color she will be but either sorrel or red roan. We are just happy to have a baby to brighten our day!

03/29/2024

Not the post I wanted to make. Started the 2024 foaling season off today. Cute, big, good looking, red roan filly out of HKFancyRoanLady that unfortunately did not make it. 🤞the rest of the season goes better.