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J.D. Blondin with Walk Thru Fire


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Walk Thru Fire

It's the best product he's seen in 41 years of the horse breeding business!

J.D. Blondin of Moon Lake Equine Center in Elm Grove, Louisiana has been breeding stallions for 41 years. A past President of the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) he has had over 300 grand champions and won every stock show and congress. He also has served 8 years on the Louisiana state racing commission.

Moon Lake is now standing the current #1 quarter horse sire in racing, “Walk Thru Fire”. This stallion is royal bred by “First Down Dash” and out of a mare named “Sweet Beduino”. His dam (Sweet Beduino), grandam and great-grandam are all past champions. His first foal crop (of 18 to race) has produced 5 winners halfway through the season (two were $1M+ plus futurities) His own earning are approaching $1M from this first class.

Demand to breed to Walk Thru Fire is enormous as a result but there has been one problem in the past, he has had poor fertility, being able to handle only 2-3 mares per collection. J.D. and his son Justin (Breed Manager) tried everything to bring up his potency but nothing did the job until they heard about and tried EQUIPRIDE from SweetPro Feeds. Since then motility has jumped 4 fold and sperm counts went from 75M to 175M. This took place in 2 months! Now they can handle 6-8 mares per collection. The financial implications of this, dollar to performance, has everybody very pleased. Another result of high sperm counts is that they can now freeze the semen and ship it across the country to the mares. This benefits everyone because there is no time loss, stress from travel and exposure to possible disease.

Walk Thru Fire has always been a finicky eater, even the vets couldn’t figure out why, but now on EQUIPRIDE is eating much better. His vitality and condition is also improved.

Now J.D. has all the stallions, mares, colts, filly’s and show yearlings at Moon Lake using EQUIPRIDE and is seeing a big difference in them. He tells us that when the coats of the horses start dappling, that they have reached peak nutrition levels. J.D. says that something in this product (EQUIPRIDE) is working and he highly recommends it to anyone. He says that just because something is on the label of a product, doesn’t mean the horse’s body can utilize it. With EQUIPRIDE it can! J.D. goes on to say it’s the best product he’s seen in 41 years of breeding horses! He is also is putting their cows on SweetPro cattle supplements as a result.

As a footnote to this story in August 2005:

WALK THRU FIRE LANDS AT BURNS RANCH
Red-hot freshman stallion Walk Thru Fire, who was recently purchased for a seven-figure amount by Ed Allred and Mike Abraham, arrived safely at Burns Ranch earlier this week. "He arrived in excellent shape and looking great," said Dr. Steve Burns, who operates the Menifee ranch. "He is a beautiful horse. That's the one thing that jumps out right when you see him. He is an awesome specimen. He had some fertility evaluations done before he was purchased and those results were excellent. His record is very impressive as a first year sire and we are very excited to have him at the ranch. We can't wait to go to work." Previously owned by a partnership that included trainer Jaime Gomez, Walk Thru Fire has been the most talked about stallion in Quarter Horse racing this year thanks to a first crop featuring Kindergarten Futurity winner Gold Nugget Rd and Ed Burke Million winner Higher Fire. Prior to the purchase, Walk Thru Fire stood at Moon Lake Equine Center in Elm Grove, Louisiana and before that he called Allred's Rolling A Ranch in Atascadero, California home.

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