| Welcome To Pecan Creek Pony Farm |
| Pecan Creek Pony Farm - Moran, Texas Phone: 325-945-2048 email: PecanCreekPonies@aol.com Owner, Manager, Chief Cook & Bottle Washer - Jane Cozart |
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| Pecan Creeks Timpanist - "Timmy" |
| Welcome to Pecan Creek Pony Farm! Before you "take the tour", please allow me to give you a bit of background. My dad bought my first pony when I learned to walk at nine months and I haven't been horseless since. You name the breed and I've either owned it, ridden it for somebody else, or at least admired it from across a fence. My initial love was Shetlands and my early childhood was spent playing Indian at our summer place in northern Michigan. Saddle and bridle? No way! No self respecting Indian rode with that stuff. Piece of clothesline around the nose took the place of rawhide. That part of the country was, at that time, laced with old abandoned logging roads with an occasional fallen tree to jump and a lake at the front porch to swim the ponies in. Well, drat and darn! Now I'm waxing nostalgic and I'm gonna start blubbering so I'll move on. By the time I was about ten, while there was NO way I would part with my two Shetlands, I wanted a horse. So, my doting father bought me one from the local horse dealer (sort of like today's used car salesman) that was absolutely beautiful . What the "trusty" dealer had omitted from his sales pitch was that this gorgeous piece of horseflesh was, in fact, a broken down steeplechase horse from Kentucky. We found this out after my father called the local dealer in a purple rage because he had seen said horse and myself sailing over a five strand barbed wire fence. This was totally the horse's idea but I went along with it. Wheee!! I had to kiss the old horse goodbye but that was just the start of many more through many years to come. At twelve, I was riding a Saddlebred along the bridle paths in the Chicago area where we lived in the winters. So, instead of "a chicken in every pot ", I had a horse in two states. Had it made! When I was fifteen, my father's radio and television career took us to California and it was there that I was introduced to Morgans, Thoroughbreds, Arabians, and Standardbreds. Sort of like being six years old and turned loose in a candy shop! We lived in Northridge close to the Devonshire Downs track. At that time, Northridge was still way out in the country in the San Fernando Valley. I won't tell you how many times I ditched school to go work Arabs in the wash (dry riverbed) with my trainer friend, Johnny Hayes, or his wife Leny . My love of Shetlands surfaced once again when I had kids and had a legitimate excuse for buying a couple. When we moved north to the San Jose area, there were three Shetland mares, a Shetland stallion, and a Saddlebred mare that moved with us. The Shetlands moved to Texas with us in 1960 and raised my kids and then relatives' kids. Regardless of what people say, I've never had a mean Shetland. Kids have a way of growing up so the ponies were replaced with horses and everything rocked along until I realized that there was a HOLE in my life. I wanted PONIES! However, I have always been bothered by the fact that the little guys have to go through so many homes due to being "sadly outgrown" and I didn't want to set myself up to have to deal with that. Lots of research uncovered an astounding fact -- the Welsh registry had a section B that could be big enough for an adult!!! More research and many phone calls found Coleman Cowan and the two wonderful mares that started me out in the Welsh pony "business" in 1985. One of those mares, CC Silver Lady, was granted the Lithgow Wishnik Broodmare Award posthumously this year. Thank you, Cherry Wilson of Bristol Farm. As I write this at the tail end of 2006, I am now 76 years young and still enjoying the Welsh ponies and am looking forward to many more years of being Head Pooper-Scooper at Pecan Creek Pony Farm. I've always been a keen advocate of responsible breeding so you won't ever find a large number of ponies, if any, for sale here but you will find lots of quality and a bunch of spoiled rotten, in your pocket, beggars looking for a belly or butt scratch. Ponies, that is ! ;>) Ya'll come visit !!!! Jane Cozart (aka the wicked witch of the west) WWW |
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| Updated December 2006 - S. Crozier |
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