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John & Joyce Hutcheson
Gab Creek Farm, LLC
539 Gab Creek Farm Road
Dahlonega, GA 30533
(706) 864-3690


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January 2010: Over the years I have had horses do all sorts of strange things with fences....under, over and through. Twelve years ago I discovered Centaur and have extricated one mare out from under it with not a scratch on her, have taken it down to let a stud out of it (half in and half out) without him being hurt and have had all sorts of incidents where a horse kicked into it. I have never experienced a serious injury with this product. Here is my latest adventure:

Centaur Fence Testimonial


Merry Christmas from "the land down under" from Wirraway's Trademark (aka Briki), the son of PKR Primavera Brio out of a Funquest Erick daughter (aka Riki....ala, "Briki"). Briki was shipped to Australia with his mom as a foal, went 14h at 12 months and is only 21 months in this photo (foaled Mar 24, 2008). Mary Ann Schafer who is just back from visiting him reports: "He also hasn't gone thru an uneven growth spurt, hasn't been hind end tall or anything, he grows evenly front and rear. What I love best is the soft eye. Kind and intelligent and a hunk!" This colt is already creating quite a buzz down under.


It is always good to receive positive feed back on a horse John started.

"I rode with Georgia Ladies Aside in the Old Soldier's Day Parade in Alpharetta yesterday on Becky and it went tremendously well. She amazes me over and over again at what an amazing horse she is. There were only 3 of us in our group (both of the other horses are veteran parade horses- both of which rode side saddle in the inauguration parade this year). The parade was HUGE (approx. 100 entries - we were #84)! She took in all of the sites very well with minimal spooking (mostly at the noisy motorcycles and bicycles - they're just not right!). Out of all of the parade entries, there was only one entry that shot off guns and 2 with animals (us and a pair of camels 2 spots back from us pulling a wagon). And of course, where did they put the 15 "sons of the Confederate" with their guns they shot off every time there was a big crowd? You got it, right in front of us. They gave us no warning the first time they fired them off and they were LOUD. Romeo, one of the veteran horses, spun around and tried to take off, meanwhile Becky just flinched and got progressively better as the parade went (once she understood they weren't going to hurt her). She was awesome! You'd think she was a veteran parade horse!

So anyway, it was great. We spent almost 2 hours in the line up waiting for it to start and then the parade route itself was almost an hour long. Was really big and was in honor of all soldiers who have fought in any wars. Was great to see them all out there in their dress uniforms along the parade route. They would salute us as we went by. Huge turnout and was just a blast. Was great to hear all of the little girls along the way screaming for the horses too!

Here's to a great start of hopefully many more fun parades with Becky!"

-Melissa Starr, Alpharetta, GA


Fall 2009: Nashboro Belanna Gold has a new home! Congratulations to Ginger Krause!! Ginger writes, "I am having such a wonderful time getting to know her better, and though I admire her beauty, she has such a sweetness about her and the spark of individuality despite her maturity. She is wonderful to ride. She stands so well for grooming and my fooling with her, I just lay the lead rope over the fence and there she stays until I ask her to move! what a delight! I take every opportunity to scratch her neck and ears before, during and after I put on her halter or bridle and she really seems to appreciate the special care. I put fuzzy covers on her halter and bridle and that seems to relax her that she does not feel the leather and webbing right up against her. I call her my little angel. Thank you again for letting me have the opportunity to have her with me."


Fall 2009- Mary Ann Schafer is enroute to Australia to see Wirraway's Trademark (pictured above at his first show in May 2009), the Brio son that was shipped down there as a foal. This colt is out of a Funquest Erick daughter and went 14h at 12 months. He is already creating quite a buzz down under. We will be posting more pictures as Mary Ann sends them to us. Stay tuned :-)

October 2009- Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Update

September 2009- Click here to read an update on the Pryor Mountain wild horses.

Fall 2008- Click here to read John's account of his August 2008 packing trip out west (Word format). This article was published, along with several of John's photos of the trip, in The Morgan Horse magazine.

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 here (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.

September 30, 2008- Dianne Burgess Howard, of Queensland, Australia reports her Brio Baby Whirlaway Trademark (Primavera Brio x Fox Brush Custom Design (aka Rikki Tiki Tavi) (Funquest Erick x Bowood Elusiv Dream by Appleton Town Crier by Kingston) has arrived.

Diane says: "MaryAnn (Schafer) ­ they are beautiful! He’s gorgeous and so confident". Both photos by Diane Howard.

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