My 14.2 Witez great-grandson worked cattle for
me. He wasn't a natural cutting horse like the QHs whose instinct is to
cut (much as Border Collies' instincts are to work sheep and cattle, or anything
else with legs.) But he would do anything or go anywhere I asked him,
thereby making him very good at cattle.
That's why I was so excited to find a stallion with 18.75 percent WitezII
in his pedigree... a good percentage these days! And so far, I haven't been
disappointed.
There is a WitezII owners network on line. Most of the horses in that
network are working horses. Anna Freeman, who started the network, uses her
horses to work cattle on their Colorado ranch. There are some endurance and
CTR horses on the list, too. It does my heart good to see an old bloodline
preserved as well as it can be so many generations past, and to see Arabians
out in the world being horses and doing real jobs.
chris
Barbara McCrary
<bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Early
day endurance riders...Kathie Perry, Hal Hall, Marion Arnold and
numerous others, know about Witez II through his son Kosciusko, Ted
Jeary's excellent stallion. Ted Jeary (Hyannis Cattle Co.) bred some of
the best endurance horses there were, and are. Kathie and Hal are still
riding Tevis, Hal and his wife Ann on Bogus Thunder, a Kosciusko
grandson, therefore a Witez II great-grandson. I'd give a lot if Ted was
still breeding his wonderful horses. They were about 14.2-14.3 in
general, tough, muscular, and very enduring. We had two Kosciusko
grandget and one Kosciusko son. They were fine horses. Unfortunately, a
lot of the Witez breeding has run out, diluted by time.
Sigh.....
