GabCreek Farm: Foundation Morgan Horses. Home of PKR Primavera Brio, Buckskin Stallion

Welcome to Gab Creek Farm!
Home of PKR Primavera Brio and Gab Creek Golden Vaquero
Foundation Morgan Horses

Gab Creek Farm lies at the foot of Springer Mountain, southern terminus for the Appalachian Trail. By landmark it is four miles east of Amicalola Falls State Park, the highest waterfall east of the Mississippi. It is a 200 acre fifth generation farm. Forty acres are under cultivation and the remainder is a mixed pine and hardwood forest. Bridle paths include a 3/4 mile section along Gab Creek. Wild azaleas, mountain laurel, rhododendron, wild hollies, white pines, over 60 species of hardwoods, small springs, and an old mill site with a 12' waterfall are all to be found on the farm.

We are working carefully to line breed toward the old families by close breeding (without inbreeding). In this way we are attempting to balance size, bone and substance with refinement, and to follow the "cattleman's approach" to consistency of conformation.

We invite you to visit us and meet our Morgans! - John and Joyce Hutcheson

Gab Creek Farm News

The following is the lead in for a feature article for the March 2012 issue of The Morgan Horse Magazine that will detail John's 40 day adventure in six remote regions of the western states in August-September 2011:

My sister is fond of saying: "if there isn't a near death experience involved, John is not interested." On this 40 day loop through Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, I rode out a true run-a-way, incited by a large buffalo bull in Nebraska. I met my shadow really hard when a large Angus bull jumped out of a patch of weeds up on the Paint Rock in Wyoming (a flashback for the horse to the buffalo I am sure). In the Teton Wilderness under Yellowstone a sow grizzly and her triplets ran the horses out of camp. I was armed with a plastic water filter. Traveling alone at 12,000 feet on the alpine spine of Rocky Mountain National Park, I experienced severe weather and near hypothermia. At Valle Vidal, NM, I survived a wreck when the colt I was ponying through a narrow gate in a stock pen set back hard. And I walked away from a prairie dog induced horse fall where my leg was pinned under the horse. I came through all that, in my opinion because of the saneness and toughness of two Morgan horses.