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Meet Hazel:

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Hazel started out as an armature that was for another sculpture. She's sat around in the studio for several years getting the occassional nip, tuck and bend... then very recently I found my inspiration for her and began seriously working on her. In fact it was late this fall really and I have photos (below) from the day at which I began focusing heavily on her metamorphosis (beginning with remeasuring every inch of my new model for this former "spare putty" horse shaped object!).

The real Hazel is a Premarin mare. If you aren't familiar with this term, please look them up online (try googling "premarin foals"). They do try sometimes to breed the mares to studs who will make more sport horse type foals - basically so the foals have at least some chance of adoption. Hazel is one such Premarin created foal who grew up to be a powerhouse due to her (suspected) Percheron, Quarterhorse and possibly Thoroughbred heritage. There is no way to know, these are grade draft crosses essentially. The also are raised for a while much like mustangs with very little handling. I've had the pleasure of knowing Hazel after she had some training but even when she first came to my farm she was a handful! Hazel also radiates "mare power". She is immensely fascinating to male horses of even the most aloof/disinterested nature and she shows them all "the hoof". She has no time for silly boys, she is ruling the roost and all about the food primarily. She does enjoy the periodic excuse to kick up her heels. I was thriled that she cooperated so much for me this fine brisk fall day when I went to photograph her (and that she calmed down just as easily so I didn't have a hard time measuring her!). ;)


"An exciting day in the life of Hazel.."
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A large stablemate sized version of my horse (thoroughbred) when he was about nine months old. In truth, my colt was 15 hands at this age and thus I was working from his true proportions I'd taken..but in the hobby, he would be considered large stablemate or even little bit sized (most horses this age/build are just not that big).

Anyhow, two years later this work is still in the VERY early stages of being 'roughed out' in form but a little progress is made here and there.... in fact you can see how I cut off the left hind leg in the larger pic (just below the stifle), to realign it differently from the pic so that it stood better (plus the original pose is a little unflattering to the real horse's conformation - lol!)..

WINTER 06 NOTE:
This guy has changed a GREAT deal since the last photo... I will share more pics as he gets closer to completion...

A reworking of Duke to a straight forward trotting (passaging now) warmblood. He will be big. At 1:9 scale that's just unavoidable with horses that are around 17hh.. I've added length to the back and neck and his tail will be streaming out behind... like a true 17.2hh warmblood, he is commandingly bold and proud looking!

Portrait of Joe Reed II

Hall of Fame, '94 AQHA inductee
World Champion, '42 RC

For my wonderful and generous aunt, Dorothy Kilbourn Wood (whom I don't call nearly enough - shamefully!) and in loving memory of her late husband, my uncle Bert (2003 Hall of Fame inductee) whom I never got the chance to meet sadly. I strongly believe that behind every great man is an even more incredible woman. Dorothy is that woman.

First off, this VERY rough sculpture work so far does NO JUSTICE to this incredible and great horse!
Please read his amazing story:
http://www.wwrqtrhorses.com/justone.shtml or http://equineestates.com/library/legends/joereedtwo.html

This is a sculpture I've been working on with invaluable help from Dorothy, who has provided me with rare VHS footage (converted of course from movie reels!) of Joe playing in his paddock, being handled and ridden by very young children, and just generally being a magnificent animal. She also has shown me rare photos of him in action back in the early 40's. I have also gotten some help from the AQHA by way of photos of racing Quarter Horses (bless you 'DunIt'!) as they launch off from the starting gate. Still, I have a lot of the very basics still to work on here, and this work has been about 2 years in the making so far.

Joe's sculpture obviously has a lot of significance to me and I show this work in progress very very tentatively. I hope to find great insight to be able to properly capture the legendary foundation stallion in a pose that embodies his legacy to the breed.

Bert Wood (1907-2001)
Camp Verde, Arizona

A born and raised country man, Bert Wood lived on ranches his entire life. Wood worked and exercised with the notable Thoroughbred, Joe Blair, and upon venturing out on his own acquired a grandson of Joe Blair, Joe Reed II. The stallion raced three times, yet claimed the champion running American Quarter Horse stallion award in 1942. Joe Reed II was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1994. One of the most well-known horses that Wood bred and owned became a nationwide television star, the talking horse, Mr. Ed.

Source: http://equisearch.com/equiwire/news/mar-apr03/aqha041403/

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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