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John and Brio at the Gab Creek old mill site waterfall. Photo by Laura Behning.
Welcome to Gab Creek Farm!
Home of PKR Primavera Brio and Gab Creek Golden Vaquero
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
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Gab Creek Farm News
 Pictures from John's ride with his Morgan mares through the Cloud Peak Wilderness last fall have been compiled into a video, available
here on YouTube. The video was created by Cheryl Kemptner, a high school
classmate of John's, for their class
reunion website (45th!).
Nashboro Belanna Gold has a new home! Congratulations to Ginger Krause!! Belanna is pictured here with John on a ride over Memorial Day weekend.
WAR MARES TAKE ON NEW ROLE- Shanta and Althea, veterans of the Colorado, Wyoming, Montana adventure of
last fall, on their first outing as a team in heavy harness together. Here
they are pulling the breaking sled at a fast clip with their new custom made
harness designed to let them move heavy logs, plow the garden, pull the sled
or a wagon and use all that power without hurting themselves. John is
planning to use the team at the saw mill this spring.
The power
that two full grown, mature, heavy Morgan horses generate has to be
experienced to be believed. Here they are in step, hind ends engaged, mouths
closed and on the bit!! Dr. Scott Hancock is driving. He assisted with
getting proper collar fit and put us in contact with harness makers in Ohio. Dr. Hancock
practiced vet medicine in Ohio among the Amish for many years and is now here in Georgia.
Click here to read an article about a Farm Field Day on the Hancocks' farm
Cloud the Wild Stallion of PBS fame with his band. Photographed by John Hutcheson on Pryor Mountain in September 2008 while
mounted on one of his Morgan mares. See the full article published in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue
of THE MORGAN HORSE magazine.
John trailered his two mares alone from Georgia to Wyoming and Montana and back, some 6,000 miles, rode in four wilderness areas, and spent two days among the wild mustangs
on top of Pryor Mountain. All the photographs from his treks can be viewed by clicking on the button at left marked "Morgans As Stock Horses" and
then clicking on the buttons marked "here" in the text of the first paragraph of that page.
Gab Creek
Golden Vaquero won the Five Year Old Snaffle/Hackamore Class at the 2008 Grand National
in October.
Mark Wilcher showed him and John brought him back in for the awards picture. Photo by Howard Schatzberg. See Vaquero's page for more pictures of Vaquero.
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