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 The family at Shipman Spotted Walkers consists of myself, Kenny, my wife Pam, our two children, Kevin and Kelli, son-in-law Robert Doley, daughter-in-law Lauren, grandson Noah Doley born January 4, 2007 , two Brittany's, A Golden Opportunity, Playboy's Final Edition, Matt Jones and a whole bunch more horses. Kevin is a graduate of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX and is the MANAGER of Wells Fargo Financial in Denton, TX . He's married to Lauren Gostnell, a Wichita Falls/Childress, TX product and graduate of Midwestern State University also. She sells Cummins generators. We're proud to have her as part of the family. Kelli is a Midwestern graduate and a third grade elementary school teacher in Wichita Falls, TX. She's married to Robert Doley, a Pasadena, TX native. Robert is a trainer at Wichita Falls High School. Pam and I feel like we've won the in-law lottery. We are located in Seymour, Texas about 50 miles west of Wichita Falls, TX on Highway 82. I rode my first Tennessee Walking Horse at a Brittany field trial in 1976. After riding quarter horses my entire life, I was amazed at the smooth gait and gentle disposition of the horse I rode. We traded a quarter horse filly for our first Tennessee Walking Horse mare in 1983. She was a lit-up strawberry roan mare with a super smooth gait and great disposition named Flash's Betsey Lee. Her name still appears on many of our brood mares pedigrees. In 1985 Pam and I purchased Kaliedescope. He was about 8 months old at the time and had never been handled or halter broke, but he was beautiful. I expected halter breaking Kaliedescope to be quite a chore, but he gave me one of the surprises of my life. The first time I tried to catch him, he let me walk straight up to him and put the halter on. After a couple of tugs on the lead rope, he led like he had been trained for months. Another surprise came when I broke him to ride. I saddled Kaliedescope and let him stand tied for a few days. The first time I stepped on him he rode like a horse with 60 days training. We have raised close to 100 foals by Kaliedescope and have bred him to quite a few outside mares. All his foals have had his gentle disposition, smooth gait and good looks. Over the past 10 years, I have owned several nice black and white stallions, but none quite what we were looking for, which was a horse with the same qualities that we love in Kaliedescope. We have finally found that stallion in Playboy's Final Edition. He is bred well by a Pete's Playboy bred stallion and out of a direct daughter of WGC Pride's Final Edition. We have been breeding him for 5 years and I believe he is homozygous for the black gene. All his offspring have been black or bay base color from all different color mares. His foals are pretty, gentle and smooth. |