Adrenaline Rush

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Took my wife on a little day trip to Bend, OR today to see a horse. While there we got a real Adrenaline Rush out of our ride.It was a year and a half ago, after we purchased Goldie, that we were introduced (by word of mouth) to Adrenaline Rush and his pedigree. We were really hoping to find a Purebred Arabian stallion, chestnut in body color with flaxen mane and tail to breed with our palomino mare. However, he was far away in Bend, and the situation just didn't work out. All this time I have kept talking to Goldie about Adrenaline Rush, and hoping someday we might get to meet him.

Today started quite early as we planned to leave the ranch at 7:00 a.m. after feeding horses and loading the car for our day trip. Fueled up in Pendleton and made a bee line for Bend, about 280 miles from home through the high Oregon desert. It was a most pleasant day for travel, as it was mostly overcast, warm air, with an occasional shower along the way. As we were traveling to Bend, Kittee was reading aloud the new book we had bought this past week - The Stallion by James P. McCall, Ph.D. It was most interesting reading while at the same time put the fear of God's most noble four legged creature in our mind. We got to the Double J Ranch just in time for our 1:30 p.m. appointment with Jean and David Straight (Adrenaline Rush's owners) and the vet, Dr. "Charlie", to do a vet check of "Rusty".

Everything went well, and halfway through the vet examination we took Rusty out to the round pen, gave him a few laps of warmup, and watched his moves.

What a horse....






After the round pen workout Jean, David, Kittee and I surrounded Rusty and adored him with pets and apple cookies. Like his sire, Fire An Ice, Rusty is a most well mannered stallion. He is a very easy handler, and has the beauty of a purebred with Arabian legend *Bask++ showing twice on his AHA registration front page, on his sire and dam side.

















Here we had the opportunity to see how Rusty flies.


















Rusty is a self-longeing horse, and very showy with his long flaxen mane and tail flowing in the breeze of his movements. He is a seven year old, full of vim and vigor as we watched him making 5 of these flying leaps during his playtime in the round pen today.

We were just thrilled to be in the presence of such a very mild-mannered stallion that had the wonderful horseality, (nothing like the horror stories we had just read about) characteristics, and the handsome looks of the Arabian horse breed that we had been looking for. He is not a pencil- nosed Arabian, and we feel he should make a great sire for our palomino quarab Goldie's foals.

Before we left, David walked Rusty out to the mare's paddock and we witnessed his mild manner around the mares and his deep gruntal voice neighing to the mares.


Well, to top this story off...
before we left the Double J Ranch, Kittee pulled out the McKuster Ranch checkbook and made a deposit to buy Rusty for our ranch stallion.

This is a big move for us, but we feel that we are going in the right direction. We plan to have our stallion's domain constructed in a month or two, and be able to have Rusty at home for our 2008 breeding season.

After being thrilled by this Adrenaline Rush exposure, we faced the long trip back to the ranch, but first we had to make a dinner stop at McGrath's Fish House in Bend. WOW!! what a treat for the palate. Kittee made the long drive back home, as I was quite tired since I have been awake since 1:30 a.m. --- must be the excitement of a year and a half wait to meet Rusty. We got back to the ranch around 10:30 p.m. to feed our herd, make this blog post and get to bed by midnight.

You can now find the expanded and updated Adrenaline Rush webpage at http://mckuster-ranch.com/AdrenalineRush.html

What a day... in the life at McKuster Ranch --- Dale & Kittee