In April 1998 Lacey gave birth to one of her last foals, Hot Rod, who had been planned to be Debra's top show filly, she was perfect in every way and Debra began paying up her futurity money in hopes of her going to the AQHA world show. However, at not even a month old Hot Rod suffered a severe attack from a local dog breeders pack of huskies, tearing the muscle, tendons and all soft tissue from her front fore-arms. Told she would never walk again the vets only advice was to put Hot Rod down.
But with some prayers and lots of Manuel labor she eventually stood on her own and blossomed into a wonderful horse, but due the severity of the injuries would never see the show ring.
Hot Rod was never really used and only bred one time in 2007, but due to a outside horse being boarder at their barn contracting Rhino flu the entire herd began ill and an almost full term beautiful buckskin filly was sadly aborted by Hot Rod.
Years later, a filly I witnessed the birth of and loved her entire bloodline finally came back into my life and was given to me by my dear friends. After realizing that once Hot Rod is gone ( the worst day that will be ) the entire line will be gone and the horses that raised me will be completely gone with her, unless she produces a foal.
So in 2012 I decided that I would attempt to breed Hot Rod to Debra's champion stallion, Breaker.
The breeding season came, and went, and it seemed Hot Rod was not taking plus she was having such weird heat cycles I was losing hope. I bred her one last time in July 2012 and hoped for the best, and it's seemed like nothing happened. In August that same year poor Breaker suffered a horrible case of colic and passed away and with his passing went all my hopes of Hot Rods line being passed on.
In Dec I decided to get hot rod vet checked again to make sure she could still carry a foal, as an older maiden mare I had concerns she was unable to conceive or carry a foal and after deciding to try one last breeding season with an outside stallion I wanted her checked first.
We arrived to the clinic expecting an answer if hot rod could be bred at all.
After asking a thousand questions Dr. Morrow he asked if I was sure she wasn't already pregnant... At that moment I thought " well.....No I'm not sure"
So he ultrasounds her and not seconds later motioned for me to look at the screen. Heart racing and tears forming I looked at the screen and clearly visible was the silhouette of a baby horse head!
I screamed in shock, happiness and surprise and began to cry! I hugged Hot Rod I was SO proud of her!
So you see before she was even here this little foal was a miracle, meant to be in so many ways, with all odds against her, but just like her mother, overcame all odds to be the greatest gift anyone could ever ask for.
