It all started with a deep love for
animals
and horses being the passion! Two Guilbeau brothers got together with
an idea, they did there homework when it came to choosing the finest breeding
stock possible. They had an eye for choosing well breed horses with good
conformation and as linage is an important factor in the out come of all
offspring. Impressive pedigrees of horses with good stamina were selectively
chosen for there foundation breeding stock that is now producing the offspring
and pride of T-D Cajun Bar Horses. Most pedigrees can be traced back to some
off the most famous horses ever heard of "Doc Bars" is legendary in his own
right and was a most amazing horse. He revolutionized the cutting horse industry and
was breed for racing originally being the son of "Lightning Bar" which is non
other than the son off the legendary, world famous "Three Bars." Doc bars
sired 485 foals, whom went on to earn 2,492 halter points and a whopping
4,569.5 performance points as well as 27 AQHA Champions, most of his sons and
daughters competed in NCHA cutting only. We can only wonder if more of his
offspring had entered into more of the AQHA events what the could have happened..
You will find
pedigrees dotted with many of them leading right to T-D Cajun Bar Horses own
stock. "Blue Valentine" and "Hancock" horses are also in our breeding, the list
of greats is endless as is the potential of all our offspring breed and or
raised here.
Then came how to name our ranch, coming from Louisiana born and raised Trever and Derek Guilbeau decided to add something that would reflect their roots, history, culture and place they call home but at the same time choosing a name that was as regal as the horses they kept to cultivate the future herd. So there came the name T-D Cajun Bar Horses "T" for Trever, "D" for Derek, "Cajun" to reflect their heritage, "Bar" as a tribute to Doc Bars and "Horses" because with such fine stock why limit themselves to only quarter horses, perhaps gaited horses or paints and more. With the interest in mind always in preserving the integrity and prestige the current foundation mares and stallions descend from.
Trever working with one of Cajun Bar Horses stud colt "Grey" out at the ranch, filmed by Derek, a must see clip!
Derek working with one of Cajun Bar Horses stud colt "Grey" out at the ranch, filmed by Trever, a must see clip!
I personally know Trever Guilbeau and Derek Guilbeau and I am proud to say, they both have a great deal of respect, appreciation and deep love for their horses and all animals for that matter. They would never put one in harms way and if you watch closely you will see "Grey" there stud colt waiting to play again and not running off, as "Grey" and all of their horses know they are loved and very well cared for. They hand raised Grey from a baby and he is an extremely well breed up coming stallion.
Lisa Sweet
The Homozygous Tobiano Paint
The first "tobiano" was said to have been brought over to the New World from Spain in 1519 by an explorer named Hernando Cortes. According to history they were in fact among some horses brought over to carry Cortes's men and later breed with American wild mustangs, which did indeed produce the foundation Paints of today. It wasn't until 1962 that the first tobiano paint was recorded as registered here in the United States.
A horse is considered heterozygous if he carries one tobiano gene, and is a homozygous if he carries two. In the case of the heterozgous (meaning single) is exactly that a gene inherited from a single tobiano parent, to carry this gene it will be a visually seen pattern. A horse with homozygous (meaning two) does in fact come from both parents being tobiano, making this horse when breed to a solid horse always yield 100% visual tobiano's but now off spring will carry the heterozygous gene. These when bred to a solid now will not yield all tobiano's but 50% only and the other half will be solid. It takes two heterozygous tobiano's or a heterozygous and a homozygous to produce another homozygous. You can not get a homozygous from one solid parent breed to either a heterozygous or homozygous. Just when you think you have the genetics mastered we must through in the fact that two heterozygous parents can produce approximately 25% solid colored off spring.
Of course there is always that exception of the minimal white tobiano meaning that although they don't look to be tobiano they do indeed carry the gene and can pass it on to offspring.
So now how will you know if you might have a homozygous tobiano paint? Well, the best way is a test offered by the University of California at Davis, they also have the forms needed for this test found here on their website: www.vgl.ucdavis.edu.
Tobiano is a dominate gene that does not skip a generation, every tobiano has at least one tobiano parent.
Article written by Lisa Sweet ©(1999)
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