Pictures of Rocking M Hurculeo

[Sharon B]

Here are some current pictures of Rocking M Hurculeo. He still needs a little more weight on him. Debbie has put about 100 lbs on him and he still has about 100 lbs to go. You can see the injured left knee cap. It is about twice the size of the other one. He stands a solid 14.1 hands tall. In fact a little over 14.1. The first link are pictures of Hurc and the second link are bloodline information of the mares that we have bred for 2007.
http://lilbit.lhl.uab.edu/sagrado/hurc061.html


http://lilbit.lhl.uab.edu/sagrado/bre2006.html

Sharon

[Terry Wallace]

What happened to the knee?
It looks like a permanent injury...did he get kicked or?

[Sharon B]

Terry, Polly can probably answer that better than I can. I was told by his current owner that it was a breeding accident that happened a long time ago. It looks like it got reinjured when his owner took him to Kentucky in July. It was not quite that big when he left. It does not seem to bother him. It just seems like the old guy has a target drawn on it. I am so nervous when he breeds. Some of mine we hand bred and others we pasture bred. We should have nice babies this next year. He is such a sweet boy. We love him.
Sharon

[TrueStepPaso]

I love your horses....very nice looking.

[Moniece Dickerson]

Thank you so much Sharon for posting the links and info on his height!!Your friend,Moniece

[Polly Aulton]

He looks really good Sharon. He is a hard one to keep weight on. We had his teeth floated every year and had switched him to senior feed before he left here and it was still hard to keep weight on. We usually ran him with a mare or a collection of mares because he was a lot calmer (no fence running) and he always yielded his feed to the mares. Makes it doubly hard to keep his weight up.
The original knee injury was a mare kick from a pasture breeding that happened long before we got him. The vet here said that if he had received immediate medical care he might have remained rideable. By the time we purchased him it was too late. We kept him on a glucosamine supplement that helped a lot but the photos do make the knee appear a lot larger than it was here. You're right; it doesn't bother him at all when it comes to breeding. He's a very savvy stallion and he's all stallion. We watched him wine and dine a mare one evening. We put her in there for field breeding and she wanted no part of him. So he took her to the hay pile and they ate together. Then he herded her down to the water trough for a drink. Hurc then turned around a walked over to a corner of the field to take a nap! The mare wouldn't leave him alone then. He gave a big yawn and then he seemed to say "well, okay if you insist" and he got about his business. We learned a lot from this guy and he was trained to a fare the well. I wish all stallions were trained as well.
Nice horse and I noticed on your website that he's finally getting a lot of use. That's what we wanted. One mare a year is not enough for a guy that produces such good rideable offspring. We still have one here and are thinking about keeping him.
Thanks for posting.
Polly
www.pojoranch.net