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Name: Rock On
Registry/Breed: RPSI
Sex: Gelding
Birth Year: 2006
Contact: CCHS
Phone: 1-888-612-3303
E-Mail: marion@ccsporthorses.com
Location: Careywood, ID

Sold! Congratulations to Clarissa Hall from Sagle, Idaho. We are pleased that Clarissa and Rocky will stay a part of the team at CCSH.







Rocky's first jaunt at the farm.	"Look at me! I'm the champ!"
"Hey in there - Who's the champ?"	"See, I've got more than one spot!"
Photo of Rocky early on at the hospital in Pullman, WA	"Are you guys sure this is the right treatment?"

"Rock On" - or just call me Rocky - is the son of Radikal out of Wondra. On the evening of May 9th Wondra went into labor and we immediately became alarmed when only one leg and his head were emerging. Marion and I immediately called the vet. and attempted to push the foal back into the mare to try to get the other leg out. We struggled with this for half an hour until Jenny Scott, the vet. arrived. As Marion led the mare around in front of the barn and Jenny and I spent the next hour trying to free the other leg, to no avail. Jenny was afraid that she would not be able to get the baby out and that we might also lose the mare. She asked Marion if she should try to save the mare or the baby. She wasn't certain if the baby was still alive and didn't think it would survive anyway after all of the trauma. Marion said to save the mare and Jenny said that she would probably have to cut the leg off at the knee in order to get the baby out and Marion insisted that the baby be euthanized first before cutting off the leg. The prospect of this was too much for me and I went into the house in a state of frenzied depression. They said that they could do the rest without my help. After about 10 agonizing minuted Marion came into the house to tell me that they had made a final attempt to get the baby out by attaching a chain to it's leg and they had successfully pulled him out. I rushed back out to the barn and saw the little guy lying there, his head all swollen, blue tongue hanging out and a large red embolism protruding from on eye. Rocky Balboa never looked worse after the most trying fight. After a few minutes the battered colt tried to get to his feet. Jenny and I helped him up and be began to walk around the stall. Jenny said that we should get him immediately to the Vet. Clinic at WSU, and as soon as the mare had recovered from the anestetic, we loaded them into the horse trailer and began the two and a half hour drive to Pullman, Wa. When we arrived and opened the trailer, the mare was doing well and the youngster was lying down. He immediately jumped up on his own. He still looked like a bomb casualty. Everyone at the clinic was shocked and apprehensive. They told us that it would be expensive and that it was unlikely that the colt would survive. Well after three surgeries and six weeks in intensive care with cautious reports almost daily and suggestions that he might not survive another day, they finally told us that we could pick the boy up. Naturally, his mom had given up on him since he was continually filled with tubes and unable to nurse while being attended to constantly by vet. techs. She had already been sold and the new owner had picked her up as soon as it was determined that the colt would never be accepted by her. So he came home an orphan that needed to be bottle fed every three hours. He was expected to drink 14 liters of milk replacer each day. Well, Rocky didn't even realize that he was a horse, having been attended to so closely and continuously by people. We gave him the run of the place and he showed far more interest in the people around the farm than in the other horses. With lots of patience and careful introduction to other members of our herd, he is finally running and playing with the other colts and fillies here at the farm and is finally becoming a horse again. Naturally, he still is a spoiled little brat and insists on more than his share of attention, but he is the pride of Cocolalla Creek Sport Horses now and happier that any little fella' ought to be.


Sire: Radikal	Dam: Wondra

Rock On
Sire: Radikal	Rotspon	Rubenstein I
		St Pr. Antalie
	Weltskandal	Weltmeyer
		Luxy Te
Dam: Wondra	Wonderful	Weltmeyer
		Anka
	Jeta Snow XX	Against the Snow
		Jedgar Jet