Monetary Gift

Gayle66 · Postby **Gayle66** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:29 pm

Does anyone have any info or a pic of the stallion Monetary Gift by Gold and Myrrh out of Dance Mount by Dancing Dervish? Is Monetary Gift still living and does anyone know where he might be located? He is the sire of the TB mare I just bought.

Thanks!
Gayle

Intrinsic Worth · Postby **Intrinsic Worth** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:28 pm

He died a few years back. He was a big bodied gray stallion who's offspring pretty much all look like him. They can be quite pushy as well. If you are into TB breeding, his mares nick well with Service Stripe (most of his winners are from Monetary Gift mares.)

Gayle66 · Postby **Gayle66** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:03 am

Thanks for that info. My mare is a big bodied grey, so may take after the sire. She doesn't seem pushy, but I have only had her a few days. :-)

Again, thanks!
Gayle

kezeli · Postby **kezeli** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:36 am

I just had to respond to this one as I knew both Monetary Gift and Dance mount. His foals commonly were also VERY ear shy and some were even rather on the Tough side as well. I had a filly on the track that you had to take her bridle apart to put it on, and if you pissed her off she would wait to pay you back. She had such a reputation that the valets were VERY respectful of her in the paddock, Ijust loved that little s**t !!

Gayle66 · Postby **Gayle66** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:55 pm

Well, no ear shyness here. She seems to be a very sweet mare so far. I hope she stays that way!! LOL!! DO you have pics of your filly?
Gayle

kezeli · Postby **kezeli** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:19 am

No I didn't get to pick, I got her by default because I knew the stud and I wasn't afraid of her. In her case this was a big advantage as she would bully people who were afraid of her which was almost everyone and she was only 15.2 or so as a three year old. She protected me from a horse that tried to bite my face off when we were walking down the shed, almost kicked his head off, wish she had, his owner wouldn't put up a floor to celing screen so everyone that forgot about him got it. He got her really badly though, grabed her by the breast and lifted her 2ft off the ground and held her a minute or so, I'm sorry to say we were all so shocked we couldn't move to help, when he droped her we had to leave the barn in mass to hide the laughing fit. :oops:

Intrinsic Worth · Postby **Intrinsic Worth** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:05 am

A friend of mine owned a Monetary Gift mare, Jean's Gift, who ran for quite a few years and was mean as hell on the track. Even after she had a couple of babies, it took two people to take her outside. She hemorrhaged after her 5th foal and she fought the pain so much no one could get in her stall to put her down.

Her second foal, Service Stripe's first winner "Norhtland's Gift", was as red as a horse could get and we named him Lucifer as a foal because he was just as mean as his mother. On the track, Lucifer put a hole through his stall one night and the grooms found him the next morning hanging on to the horse in the other stall by his halter. They had to beat him off with a broom.

Gayle66 · Postby **Gayle66** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:35 am

I meant do you have pictures of your filly.

With all the awful disposition stuff you guys are disclosing, is there anything good to say? LOL!! I hope to heck that temper doesn't show up in this mare!

Gayle

Gayle66 · Postby **Gayle66** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:36 am

By the way, where in Monetary Gifts pedigree does this bad temper originate?
Gayle

Intrinsic Worth · Postby **Intrinsic Worth** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:58 am

They tend to be pretty sturdy and definitely have that will to win. Jean's Gift ran 8 or 9 years I think without an injury. Her son, Northland's Gift, is still racing at age 7. Bred to Farma Way, very nice tempered boy, her 2000 filly, Jean's Way, is very sweet. She won a stakes race at 2, but retired from a bone chip that wasn't removed quick enough. When Jean's Gift was bred to Peaks and Valleys, who's offspring tend to be VERY temperamental, she produced a colt who ended up killing himself last year when he flipped over backwards and broke his neck.

As for where the temperament comes from, the only connection I can make is that there is another Native Dancer line in Michigan which is quite mean and that is the Rattle Dancer offspring. Rattle Dancer was by Native Dancer and his offspring and so on are just as evil.

kezeli · Postby **kezeli** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:25 am

Sorry no she was quite well put togther nice head and rether short, never sticked her so 15.2 may have been 2" too tall a guess. I wouldn't have called her "evil" just had her own ways, I liked it, I was the only groom that could handle her, big ego builder for me :lol: As for the Rattle Dancers, they were evil, we had 2 we called the groosum twosum, they looked identical and behaved like nut cases

Intrinsic Worth · Postby **Intrinsic Worth** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:50 am

I have a gelding by Jitano who's by Rattle Dancer and when I bought him at the age of 4, he'd had 6 owners. I've owned him for 9 years now and we get along very well (after many fights.) However if he doesn't know you, he will go straight up in the air and try to knock you over. Great eventer though, won Novice Horse Champion in 2000 and won on the "A" circuit in hunters.