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We stand four champagne stallions and one miniature cremello. Snakewater Farms can ship semen. Our first shipment result was a healthy foal from one insemination. That foal is in California and listed for sale at $10,000. Our goal is to produce foals that have bone, muscle, balance and a sound mind. We look at the whole picture and not just the rare champagne color. Several of our foals have gone on to be shown in reining, barrel racing, trail and pleasure. Most clients are buying for breeding to start their own champagne herd. Our main stallion is SW Take Care Too, an amber champagne. He is 88% NFQHA and is a true bulldog foundation type. He will put muscle and bone substance on his foals. The feedback from our clients will often state on the great minds of his foals. I cross him on the lighter boned and muscled mares. The results are what I call a good all around pleasure performance type. They have a great profile and balance. They are taller and have refinement but are built for hard riding. When crossed on a foundation mare, you often get a very thick built, muscular horse that looks like they can be used for roping bulls. Since he is such a good mind, I will often cross him on “hot” mares that are sensitive. SW Champagne Class is a gold champagne stallion. He is a massive horse, standing 15.3. He is a very large stallion with a huge chest and large hip. Clients are often overwhelmed with his presence. With his size, he does produce large foals and it is not recommended for maiden or small mares. Nugget has a very nice shapely head, good length of neck, and a nice top line with a good set of withers. Although he is foundation bred with a lot of Leo and King breeding, he has the size, muscle and spark to win at halter. His foals sure will be riders too. The kind that can go all day, cover a lot of distance and work hard. Cool Looking TC is our junior stallion, a gold champagne. He is a grandson of My Skip Vanzi, who was third in the world in aged stallions. He does not have Impressive breeding. TC is also more of a darker skinned champagne and tends to pass that to his foals. It was his colt that was shipped to France to become a herd sire. This stallion has a large hip that really ties down low. He has a good set of withers, a long neck, a pretty head and stands about 15.2. He placed third as a weanling in a South Dakota futurity. His sire is now in AZ producing halter foals. When bred to my halter mare, they produced a real popping filly. He is more of a refined type of stallion and also crosses very well with old foundation bulldog types. An added bonus is that TC has an outstanding trot. He moves softly with a lot of sweep in his reach and drive. One look at him moving and you know that he will be smooth as glass to ride. SW Champagne Artist is a gold overo APHA stallion. He is olw negative. His first foal is a loud red roan overo colt out of a Breeding Stock mare. His sire is SW Take Care Too. He is the spitting image of his sire in mind and body type, very cowy and foundation looking. He is a loud sabino overo and according to APHA’s research should produce the paint gene 78% of the time. If you have any questions about our horses or breeding to a champagne stallion, please feel free to ask us anything. We can give you an idea of what color of foal your mare and one of our stallions will produce. If you are looking for a champagne, we can help you find one. Take care, Keith or Audra Pennebaker of Snakewater Farms
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