Sarde Morgans ~ Clayville, RI

Past Champions

Every horse we've ever owned is a champion to us, whether it ever saw the inside of a show ring or was a beloved family pet. Here are the horses that captured our hearts and helped bring Sarde Morgans to where and what it is today. Horses with green text have their own page and you may click on the photo to go there. Otherwise, clicking on the photo will bring up a larger image.

(Courage of Equinox x Windrush High Hope)
1982 Morgan Gelding ~ Austin took me on many memorable victory passes in both harness and saddle.

(Man About Town LPS x Lady Hot Topic)
2000 Morgan Gelding

(Plainview's Commander x Besue Doubletrees)
1972 Saddlebred Gelding ~ Roxanne and this talented ASB gelding were a competitive team in the jr. exhibitor three-gaited division.

(Windcrest Music Man x Michland Sebewaing)
1981 Morgan Gelding ~ From 1987 to 1993, Galileo was a force for Cheryl and Roxanne in first the park division, then as a speedy winner in the roadster division. What a grand horse!

(Austin Gentry x Leedarling Legacy)
1989 Morgan Gelding ~ A son of one of our favorite show horses, Austin Gentry, we bred and owned Royal Legacy for the first four years of his life, winning his first class at the New England Regional for us as a three year old in the Futurity Park Harness. He went on to win in the Pleasure division and is now a classic pleasure horse and is loved and enjoyed by Marie Frank and family in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

(Ru Lee War Lord x Bald Mt Fantasia)
1982 Morgan Gelding

(Shaker's Inrigue x Shaker Kachina)
1986 Morgan Gelding

(HVK Courageous Flaire x Crinolines Irishmist)
1993 Morgan Gelding ~ The first foal of this great World Champion, we owned this wonderful gelding from 1996 to 2000, capturing many great wins in the pleasure driving division with trainer Rick Stevens as well as Roxanne on the lines for the ladies classes.

(HVK Courageous Flaire x Lady Hot Topic)
1999 Morgan Gelding ~ Our third wonderful offspring of Heidi Kunkle's endearing World Champion, Smoke has been a champion in harness and under saddle.

(Paramount Ambassador x Osogay)
1974 Morgan Gelding ~ From 1978 to 1989, our whole family enjoyed showing this wonderful gelding, who was a full brother to such notables as Paramount's Gay Lass, Paramount's Insignia and Paramount's Likeness. She is pictured above with my sister Cheryl, and below with my mother, Joan Rose Sardelli, and below that with me.

(Dixie's Moroash x Lady Quietude)
1973 Morgan Gelding ~ Our first park horse, and a great one! Cheryl and I both enjoyed showing this game gelding and accumulated many tricolors in the Amateur Park Saddle division.

(Anbils First Arrival x MI Footnote)
1992 Morgan Gelding ~ All show horse, all the time! Mr. Super took us to a Reserve World Champion Ladies Pleasure Driving Gelding title during our two seasons together. He was sold to Dan Kelley just before the New England Regional, and Dan and Mr. Super went on to win Reserve Grand National Champion Amateur Pleasure Driving Gelding in OKC that year.

Anglo Arabian Gelding ~ Cheryl's outstanding 3/4 Arabian, 1/4 Thoroughbred gelding was a solid show horse for a young horse crazy girl.

(HVK Courageous Flaire x Stonecroft Shalimar)
2001 Morgan Gelding ~ One of Shalimar's first foals, this talented gelding started out winning at the Grand National as a two year old and is still winning today with his 11 & Under Jr. Exhibitor rider.

Registered Welsh Mare ~ Roxanne's first show pony, this versatile mare provided many hours of companionship and blue ribbons for a young girl. She is forerver immortalized in Margaret Cabell Self's "Horses in Pictures", a popular book for several decades.