First Amendment is Oak Hollow Stable's first born son. This Trakehner cross by Schubert was Trakehner sport horse Champion on the West Coast at ages 2 and 3. He tied for second at Dressage Under the Oaks at Flintridge at age 4, 1/2 point below the first place winner. He was second in the USDF National Horse of the Year placings for First Level horses among ATA-registered horses, less than a point below first place. He was also AHSA Zone X Champion at Second Level at the Dressage at the Club show in Rancho Santa Fe, CA.

At the age of 10, First Amendment started a new career with Gay and Tate McCall. He has been an incredibly quick study and progressed from single 2' cross rails to full courses of 3'6" with 3' spreads, one-jump bounces, quick turns and clean changes-- all in less than a year's time. He loves his work and always gives it his best. He started his new show career this year in the jumper divisions. Even in his first show he came away with 3 blues and he ended the year by completing a tight and technically difficult 3'6" open course taking his two last blues of the year (and one red). His first cross country course in competition will occur in February of next year at RamTap. He has completed the novice course in schooling at CTETA where he maneuvered a lot of "first time" jumps like water and "cliffs". He has made us all very proud at his courage and willingness to work and to trust us to such a degree.

First Amendment is a beautiful, proud and talented individual with a soft kind eye who is much loved and appreciated. He leaves a fan club behind him everywhere he goes. People just don't forget him.

First Amendment has been sold to Gretchen Lasater and her daughter Alma. Congratulations!

Walk the Walk, known as Kelly, is by Walk on Top, a Hanoverian stallion being shown as a jumper. The mare is red roan with a lot of chrome and she stands 16 hands. She has the talent for upper level dressage, and is going nicely under saddle with Gay McCall in Walnut Creek, CA. Kelly is out of the same dam as First Amendment. The mother is an appendix QH who scored 7+ on her gaits. Walk on Top is showing as a jumper but his father, Walldorf, is a dressage horse, having received 9+ on all three gaits in the stallion testing, which he won. Kelly is registered and branded International Sporthorse Registry.

Congratulations to her new owner Carol Holt of Bountiful, ID

"Kelly is awesome. I'm having so much fun with her and everyone at the barn just loves her. " -- Carol Holt

Finesse - 2000 filly by Feiner Stern (May 20 - July)

Don't cry for the horses that life has set free.
A million white horses forever to be.
Don't cry for the horses now in God's hand.
As they dance and they prance in a heavenly band.
They were ours as a gift, but never to keep.
As they close their eyes forever to sleep.
Their spirits unbound. On silver wings they fly.
A million white horses against the blue sky.
Look up into heaven, you'll see them above.
The horses we lost, the horses we loved.
Manes and tails flowing they gallop through time.
They were never yours - they were never mine.
Don't cry for the horses. They'll be back someday.
When our time is gone, they will show us the way.
Do you hear that soft nicker? Close to your ear?
Don't cry for the horses. Love the ones that are here.

Thaliard's Love, her bloodlines include Rising Market who sired one of the TB mares selected by the AHS for High Score Non-Hanoverian Mares in 1998. The mare is also a 3/4 sister to one of our TB mares who was No. 5 nationally in the NA/WPN listing of the Best of the Best.

Congratulations to her new owner
Stacey Farnham of Cupertino, CA

Jenna is a Dutch mare by Argus from our first foal crop. Her mother was a NA/WPN -approved Top Ten TB mare. Jenna has had a successful career as a jumper in Southern California. Owner Marti King decided to have Jenna bred to Budweiser for a 2000 foal. Jenna received 7s on her gaits in the Oldenburg Verband inspection.

Her daughter, Brisa, is a lovely filly with a lot of suspension. She should be able to jump the moon with this breeding -- Argus X Budweiser (Burgraff X Voltaire.)