This wonderful mare went to the rainbow bridge...

We just got her home... I was like a kid in a candy store when this old mare arrived, I chased her all over the country for the past seven years. Gray Easter Lady has not had an "easy" life, she is missing an eye and crippled from founder. Since arriving at Pocket Money Ranch she has been treated as the grand old mare that she is. Even at 23 she is still quite full of herself and is in remarkably good body condition.

Gray Easter Lady is the mare that lead me on to the Easter Gentleman lines. How little I knew ten years ago when I bought her son Hokum's Gentleman that it would lead to an all out obsession with the line. We bought Hokum's Gentleman ( Scooter) as a four year old out of the Sturgis livestock sale, I was 15 and looking for my first "project" to train and run. His breeding was unfamiliar to us and as a gelding rather unimportant. The moment I saw that beautiful sorrel gelding standing in the pen I knew he was the one. He rode just as good as he looked, he was the right size the right build, the right color, the right look, just everything about this gelding was "RIGHT".. But the thing that I remember most is the "look of eagles" he had in his eye. I evidently was not the only one who thought so as he was the sale topper that day.

A 15 year old kid and a 4 year old gelding are not always the best combination. But he and I fit like a hand in a glove. He is one of the cowiest son of a guns I have ever been on. When you stick this gelding on something you can darn near step off and let him do the work with or without you. He has the handle of a reining horse, He will rope both ends and do just about anything on the ranch a horse can do. He was always a branding and gathering favorite, you better high tail to the barn to stick your saddle on him because hes always the first horse out of the barn. Never mind the fact that he was a great ranch horse, that was not "his job" he was to be a BARREL HORSE. So I set up three cans in the calving pasture and went to work. He took to barrels naturally. He won the first rodeo we ever entered and things just got better from there. He is a solid 1D horse, he has  set many arena records, Best of all he has NEVER knocked a barrel in his entire career!!! It's not very often you find a horse that is this tuff and consistent. He has run and out run many pro and NFR horses. If I would have had more time and money, there is no doubt he could have made the tour and you would have seen him at the NFR. Or if I would have more sense and not feel like I would be losing   my right hand, sell him on some of the offers we have had on him.. ( upwards of $60,000) So to sum up this novel, I figure if Gray Easter Lady can produce a colt this great out of less then a handful of foals, she has to have another one in there! She has also produced a Hunter Jumper! We are very glad that we had a chance to own this grand old mare and thankful she gave us one last foal..