Seaside Farm, LP of Celina, Texas announces the donation of their NSBA World Champion hunt seat stallion, Iron Age, to Ohio State University.
“We were fulfilling my mom’s wishes, Carolyn Fleming Smith, per her will, with the donation of Iron Age to a university,” says Adria Smith of Seaside Farm, LP. “That transaction was completed after breeding season for ease on all parties with Ohio State University. Rebreeds will be honored next year as well as the availability to purchase future breedings to Iron Age. That information will be available in the near future.”
Smith told GoHorseShow that Amy Gumz of Gumz Farms, has successfully worked with Ohio State University with previous reproduction work and were impressed with their program so that is how the choice was made to donate Clark to the university.
The exceptional hunt seat stallion whose barn name is “Clark” is a true 17-hand 2005 AQHA bay stallion who combines strong breeding with size, disposition and movement. He has earned the impressive titles of NSBA World Champion at the age of two in the Two Year-Old Open Hunter Under Saddle Futurity. He also was the Reserve NSBA World Champion in the Two Year-Old Limited Open Hunter Under Saddle Futurity. He was shown successfully in many of the major futurities as a two year-old – winning several prestigious events such as the Tom Powers and Southern Belle Futurity.
Clark’s breeding merges two of the greatest families of today’s popular Hunt Seat pedigrees. Sired by the late Natural Iron – the winner of the 1994 AQHA GMC High Point Championship – junior Horse, an AQHA Champion as well as an AQHA Performance Champion, the All American Quarter Horse Congress All-Around Champion with six Superiors Event Awards. Natural Iron’s foals have won numerous World and Reserve World Championships and earned tens of thousands of AQHA points. His dam, Indian Skye, is a lovely young broodmare that is sired by World Champion, Indian Artifacts, and out of Ms Scarlette Sky, AQHA Honor Roll Champion in the Junior Hunter Hack.
Given his beautiful rich bay color, Iron Age, was tested for the black gene by UC Davis and he is homozygous for the black gene – meaning he is unable to sire a red based foal. He has also been tested negative for HYPP, HERDA, PSSM and GBED.
