THE HISTORY OF THE BAR NONE MORGAN RANCH

Want to get to the top of the mountain before everyone else and get there with plenty of extra zip and power? Then Ride a Morgan. Want a horse that you can ride today and if you can ride again for a month or even longer and now want to retrain or re-break the horse? Get a Morgan. Want to have a horse that will show you affection as well as be your friend? You need to have a Morgan. We found that the Morgan Horse is the all around family horse as well as western working horse for just about any project you want. We raised four boys with our Morgans and enjoy our horses for just about anything we do. We drive, them, ride them, pack them, go to the mountains, got to parades and do anything we want.

Morgans are versatile! They are more adaptable to any situation than any horse we could have ever gotten for our family.

Our first mare was called Shawnee Lass . She was 17 when we got her. She had many more colts and at 26 we chose not to re-breed her. She is the grand-dam of our present stallion, Pierre Noire. Shwanee was an unusual mother. She would have her colt up with in a few minutes and walking. She kept that colt going from day to dark, seldom letting him/her rest. She was one of the best!

We bought Bombo from Ramul Dvarshkis when Bombo was 6 years old...by the way, Bombo is still alive. He is 34 years old and lives in California.He was our stallion for several years, siring both Morgan colts and cross bred colts. He was a "family horse" and was used for everything. We broke him to drive both single and double and used him to break other horses. He could be used by child or adult alike, was never hard to control and was one of the greatest horses we have owned. Interestingly, he seldom threw a filly. Almost all the colts were horse colts. The few fillies were special.

Cody's Curly was a colt out of Shawnee and Bombo. At 9 months old, he was broke to drive and with a little cart the boys drove him all over our area. We put pony shoes on him and wore them out! Cody's Curly was driven as a team with Bombo and the "team of stallions" was a favorite with those who saw them.

Our first mares were Shawnee Lass, Granddam to our present stallion, Pierre; Ramul's Princess and Ramul's Bay Comet. Ramul's Princess died in August of 2003.  What a grand lady she was.  We cried when she died.  Ramul's Bay Comet is owned by a young lady in Casper Wyoming.  This mare has been greatly used for showing and training.   We have purchased many more Morgans over the years and have good memories about all of those we have owned.

When we came back to Wyoming in 1994 we began looking for a new stallion. We left Bombo in California. He had become sterile and we needed a good stallion to breed to some of the good mares we were able to get from Ramul Dvarshkis when he sold his horses. We bought Ramul's Carmen and Ramul's Barby. We found a stallion in the Lander area that was out of the Cross Ranch in Dubois and the Dvarshkis herd from Hamilton Dome. Little did we know when we bought S bar B Pierre Noire that he carried both the creme gene and the dun gene.

When colts began to arrive and we got a Palomino horse colt from Ramul's Barby, we were surprised and pleased. That was the beginning and year after year we have gotten palomino, dun, buckskin, black, bay, chestnut and some colors we can't identify. Mostly we have gotten palominos. Almost all the foals carry the dun gene showing its presence with a dorsal stripe and shoulder bars and often webbing on the front and back legs. Most of the palomino foals have at least some black hair in the mane and tail and a dorsal stripe. Guess you call them dunello's. All the horses foaled by Pierre have the quiet disposition we really like in our horses. Pierre is 16 hands and puts that extra leg on the colts, even when the mare might not be tall.

Bar Non Wyoming Gold, which we call "Yellow," was the first palomino out of Ramul's Barby. Yellow was a surprise and has been the first of many over the years. We have recently sold Wyoming Gold to Mr. Don Carins. We are sure you will see him in days to come both in blood lines and in the show ring.
http://www.bar-non.net/bar_non_wyoming_yellow_gold

We are working to preserve some of the old LU Sheep Ranch blood. We have also obtained some of the Tetonia line and also a mare with the Scarlet Hills blood of Jerry and Irma McGuire. These old mares are producing some good colts for us. We also try and lease a different bloodline occasionally to cross with Pierre to see what colts we get.

We like driving. Morgans are easy and quick to break to a cart or drive double.