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Dixie can take you to Rich's page.
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Please help us welcome our newest addition, a lovely filly by Royal Score Three and Promise (Beau Tivio Acres). Born the morning of March 25th, 2008. Shes a bay beauty with two white hind socks and a white flame on her forehead. See the new arrivals and foals pages for pics soon!
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Our little lady has been named "Sheza Royal Promise". At a year old shes as big as the two year olds and very precocious. She'll do her mama, Promise, and her daddy, Royal Score Three....very proud.
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We're awaiting four beautiful foals this spring...2009 babies from Valentine/Chilli...Dakota/Chilli.....Charm/Stroker...and MayFour/Stroker.
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May 27, 2009... Sadly, Valentine's filly survived only a short time after birth due to respiritory complications. She was a lovely filly but not destined to be with us for long. Our thanks to Dr. Rebecca Reed at Chappelle's Equine for her compassionate care of our mare during this time and to Dr. John Chappelle for his kindness to a grieving owner.
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Our Charlie crossed the rainbow bridge on July 27, 2009. He spent the day before running in the pasture with Bailey and Bandit chasing Cubby. His passing was quiet and peaceful. Now he can run with Speck, Charlotte, Popsie, and Duchess .... and tip over as many garbage cans as he wants. We will all miss him.
Joe's tribute to Charlie:
Our old Retriever mix, mutt, stray Charlie was put to sleep today. Charlie had to be about 9 million years old, his canine teeth were nothing but nubs when he wandered into our lives 5 years ago. His coat was hard and brittle fom a bad diet and he had never been "fixed". His last 5 years have been happy ones running with the other dogs on trail rides with the horses and keeping watch on the barns. One year he fell in love with the pot bellied pig because she was the only female on the ranch..the rest of the dogs shunned him for weeks afterward. He wasn't much of a cat lover and only tolerated the new puppys but every once in a while one of the kittens was taken in by him and they would be inseperable for months. He had hip problems that were added to when he wandered into the highway and got smacked by a passing car. Up to yesterday he was still wanting to follow my wife and the barn workers out into the pasture and howled sadly to be left behind because the temps were in the triple digits. Today he couldn't get out of the doghouse and he moaned and shook when you touched him, he looked like he hadn't eatten in three or four days but we know he did. Just a sad sack of old bones and big feet, we took a fan out to the doghouse and called the vets to come out since he was in no shape to be moved without undue pain. The fan made him more comfortable and he stopped lowly howling....the vet came as soon as he could and helped Charlie move on to a better place and we buried him in the back yard next some of the other pets and special horses we've lost throughout the past 40 years here....he's in good company and though we will cry tonight and miss him he's pain free now and is his old self somewhere running with the other dogs just like he did years ago... Goodbye Charlie, thank you for sharing your life with us...you were a "good dog"....
Charlie and his buddy BinKitten.
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HWY 521
Fort Mill, SC
Joe M. Hinson Jr.
1-803-547-5019
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