A Stable Business Buck Private (HOF) A.K.A. - "Puck" Bred by Sandy Nicolls AMHR/AMHA Sire: Winners Circle BS Bouncer Dam: A Stable Business Slick Chick It isn’t that Puck is the most beautiful horse ever born. He is awful pretty though, (26) grand championships in two years. Hall of Fame Halter in one year. It’s not that Puck is the best driving horse in the world. He is pretty good though. First year out, Hall of Fame. Grand Championship after Grand Championship; AMHA- AMHR. When there was Supremes or Champion of Champion, he usually took them. But that is not what makes Puck so unique. It is his willingness to please and his intelligence that sets him apart. He is kind of like a good border collie. He just wants to please and be taught what to do.

Thank heavens that Michelle Prekker, of Farmers Daughter Training Center showed and cared for Puck the first two years of his life. She racked up 13 Grand Championships with him the first year of his life, one of them being the Area VI Grand Champion Stallion. She also took him to AMHR National Champion Yearling All-Star and AMHR Junior Champion Stallion All-Star. We like to say that Puck took on Michelle’s personality, because there isn’t a mean or dishonest bone in his body.

As a three year old Puck came to the Lucky Hart and all I did was pull his halter on July 14th. He ran with 28 head of mares that I hoped would complement him. Within 15 days he covered all but three mares. Two of them foaled a bit later. One did not foal.

I don’t know much about driving, but as I watched him in the pasture that fall, I thought something was different with Puck. Nothing seemed like work to him. All movement seemed to come easy. It was sort of like every thing rolled. Like he was set to music.

So, I started checking around with driving trainers. We chose Renee Bush of Claybury Training Center, because I trusted her, and felt that she probably had the most smarts and patience. I knew that I could not put a smart horse with a dumb person.

Well, I chose right. She, too, racked up win after win. Including Area VI National Champion Stallion and 13 more Grand Championships, also many Champion of Champions and Supremes. I thank her for the many hours and hours and days and days, first to get Puck to completely trust her and then the practice and practice to take him to where she has, in just one year. It has been amazing. Stake after stake win.

If anyone was at Nationals and saw the costume class, you would have been flabbergasted. Well, Puck won it, and that was GREAT fun, but if you realize that there was a young horse completely enclosed and pulling that train who had been taught to drive blind.....Wow!! Puck will stay with Renee and Tim for at least one more year. I would like to have him out driving against some of his offspring in 2010, but we will have to see. Last year I asked to have him TRAINED, next year I want him to FLY!

Watch for A Stable Business Buck Private's get in the show ring next year. They are our PRIVATE COLLECTION

And because I didn't want him "broke" -- I wanted him "trained" -- I sent him to Claybury Training Center with Renee Bush, in Princeton, Minnesota. And I am just thrilled with the results!

2007 Photos of A Stable Business Buck Private By Jodie French I would like to thank Jodie French for these pictures of Puck. I figure if you are going to have a professional photographer take your horse's picture, you should get one that knows horses. Especially, in Puck's case, driving horses. Of the four miniature horses that Jodie has trained for other people, all four took National Champion Awards, so I figured she'd know what to look for in a driving picture. And she sure did. Thanks Much Jod. Back to the Lucky Hart home page.