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"THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: the Arabian & Morgan as One!"
Isn't she just beautiful?! Shown here with her former owner, Dawn is a wonderful example of what we expect out of our Morab horses here at Liberty Mtn. She has been a champion and winner in a host of categories: Western, English, Country Pleasure; Obstacle and Pleasure Driving; Open, Model Arabian, Half Arabian Halter; Native Costume; barrels; Trail; parades; Saddle Seat Equitation; Walk/Trot Equitation; etc. Many High Point Awards. She won the coveted Super Horse of the Year over all breeds in the Texas Bluebonnet Arabian Club competition, and was runner up more than once. She did endurance racing, and can do second level dressage. She has been trail ridden in several states, and pushed cattle. A classic example of the VERSATILITY and ATHLETICISM of the Morab breed - and now she gives us pleasure here at home with her beauty and her exotic Morab foals. What a blessing she is to us. In February 2003, Dawn presented her 9th Morab foal to us, a stunning black filly, LM Mystery Eclipse, sired by our gaited Morgan stallion, Mary Mels Mystery. She is a full sister to the gorgeous bay filly, LM Mystery Sunrise, we got out of this pair in 2002. With parents like these, these girls are proving to be exceptional! Dawn is bred back to Mystery for a 2005 Morab foal. She will be 21 this next spring.


Desiderata's Dawn, Morab mare, winning English Pleasure: Click on this picture & go to Morab Registry website - more Liberty Mtn. Morabs in the slide show.

We had originally decided to have Morgans - we felt that they would be excellent for the all-around "homestead type" family horse for which we were looking. But we ended up with an Arabian colt first, and we weren't sure what to do with him! He was a fine boy, a double *Naborr grandson. And then we began to hear the word, "Morab". Wow! We had always liked both the Arabian and Morgan breeds...what kind of Super Horse would you get by putting those two together? As we began to investigate we discovered that not only are Morabs a BREED, but they are a breed with a HISTORY.

The more we learned, the more fascinating it became. We acquired some excellent Morgan mares about this time (Bar-T Trinket, and her daughters, Washita Prima Dona and Washita Nancy Run). By the time our first baby was on the ground (LM Ark-One Shawna) we had made contact with the registry of that time. And we have never looked back or regretted going with Morabs since that time!

Today we have Liberty Mtn. Morabs (and some Morgans) all over the country: California, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, Missouri, Maine, Virginia, Arizona, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee, N. Carolina, Colorado, Michigan, Vermont, Montana, etc. And now we have sent our first colt out of the country to Canada. They have been MORE than we'd hoped for - athletic, intelligent, versatile, friendly, hardy, long-lived. Wonderful feet and legs with lungs that never quit.

Our Morabs are exclusively registered with the International Morab Registry so their papers are good anywhere in the world. Only IMR Morabs are recognized as a breed by the USDF, AERC, USCTA, NATRC, the Palomino Registry and the Pinto registry. We are very happy with the professionalism and integrity of this organization, and can highly recommend it to anyone interested in the Morab breed.

Our sons are grown men, now, but they still love their Morabs. In our opinion, you can't beat them for a family/companion/competition horse. Wonderfully functional...and so easy on the eyes! Find out more about the marvelous Morab at http://www.morab.com

 STALLIONS AT LIBERTY MTN. RANCH

MARY MELS MYSTERY: GAITED Morgan stallion, is out of some of the oldest Mary Mel bloodlines. His dam is a Stellar daughter, and his sire is a Stellar grandson. He is very strongly gaited, extremely good tempered and well-mannered (as are our other stallions), and has a classic baroque Morgan head. There are only a handful of gaited Morgan stallions available to the public in the whole world. Mystery is one of those. The years of 2001 through 2003 have given him his first significant foal crops - here at Liberty Mtn. Ranch - more than 30 foals all over the country. We have Morab and Morgan colts and fillies for sale - only a couple have not been seen gaiting, yet. Do you want to own a real rarity in the horse world? Get one of Mystery's gaited Morab babies! UPDATE Dec. 2003 - Mystery son, gaited Morab colt, LM Mystery Denmark, has now been sold as a stallion prospect to Morab breeders in Arkansas! UPDATE April 2004 - Mystery son, Morgan colt, Mystery Caramel, sold as a stallion prospect to Santa Rita Arabians in Tucson, Arizona.

LM BLACK POWDER, black Morab stallion, was sired by the Babson Arabian, DHAR Serr Rouf, and out of the Trinket daughter, Washita Nancy Run, whose paternal grandsire is Waseeka's Skylark. We believe Powder is a homozygous black as we have had no chestnuts by him. He now has four buckskin foals on the ground - buckskin Morabs are one of the rarest colors to have in the breed. UPDATED Dec. 2003: Powder has now sold to Morab breeders in northern Vermont. He will be standing to Canadian mares as well as American.  

DAF STINGS CODA - Yearling second generation Gold Seal Morab colt out of National and Regional Champion DAF Bay Sassy (Morab mare shown Half Arab - also Top Five at Regionals and Top Ten at Nationals more than once). This is Sassy's only intact son, and she is 22 years old this year. Coda has older full sisters who are also Sweepstakes, Regional and National winners! Her pedigree includes such legends as *Ansata Ibn Halima, Bay-Abi, & Bay El Bey. Her Morgan lines are Lippitt/Carter breeding. Coda's champion Arabian sire, Aladdinn's Sting, was a champion and producer of champions, including two Legion of Supreme Merit Arabs. Sting's immediate pedigree is full of National Champions such as Gai Parada+++, Azraff and Ferzon - and his sire, *Aladdinn. We are looking forward to breeding some of our Morab mares/fillies to Coda...like Dawn's daughters by Mystery - wow, what a combination that will be! Two of the most accomplished Morab mares as granddams with Mystery and Sting as the grandsires! Liberty Mtn. Ranch continues to breed the best Morabs possible. Coda is available for purchase. He is one year old.

LM POWDER GOLDDUST: "Dusty" is one of the very few buckskin registered Morab colts in the nation. Not only that, he is a third generation Gold Seal Morab. He was two in June 2004, & we are keeping him intact. He is for sale, but only as a stallion prospect. He is a deeply bodied colt with wonderful bone, and an attractive head with soft expression. A sweet tempered boy who has been easy to handle. Bred to Arabians, Dusty can produce *colorful* Half Arabs who are fourth generation Gold Seal Morabs. Check out this unique and special boy.

Live Healthy Foal Guarantee on all of our stallions - we think you should get something for your money and time. See the webpages for Mystery, Coda and Sky on our website.


We leased a palomino Morgan stallion for two breeding seasons, and were blessed to get several "colorful" babies by him. The five "Golden Girls" (palominos) that we got by him were all old enough to breed in 2001, and we did breed four of them - LM Sky Angel, LM Golden Sky Shalom, and LM Golden Sky Frost were bred to the black, LM Black Powder, in hopes of some beautiful buckskins, and two gave us buckskin colts! They are for sale. LM Sky Lady was bred to Mystery with a palomino gaited Morab filly in mind - well, we got the *filly* and *gaited* part, but not the palomino. This filly, LM Mystery Lady, is a beautiful chestnut, though - chocolate with a very flaxen mane and tail, and white markings. Very eye-catching! She is now owned by a party in Texas.

Frost is such a light color she almost looks creme! We found out that it's called an "Isabella" palomino. Queen Isabella of Spain used to breed for this light color. She sold in 2004 to an endurance rider in Texas, and they are very happy with her. Shalom spent her first summer as a weanling going every weekend with her mother, LM Ark-One Shawna, to (im)patiently wait while "Mom" was doing her scenes on stage in the live musical passion play, "The Witness". Afterwards, Shalom got to stand next to Shawna in the reception line, and greet the audience as they left for home. She didn't even mind the camels!

Liberty Mtn. Ranch Morabs in "Morab Moments" - the only book on the breed!

Little Known Facts About Morabs!
Did you know....that it is a Morab that holds the 5,000 miles in one year record for endurance racing?...that it is a Morab named Pinto that holds the record for the longest continual trail ride in the northern hemisphere? He did 20,000+ miles in 3+ years in the early 1900's, and was the only horse in the group to make it the whole way...that a Morab went to the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, and came home with a Team Silver medal in endurance riding? (this horse also has just earned his 6000 AERC mile Medallion)...that the American Albino breed was started with a white stallion said to be Morgan and Arabian being bred to Morgan mares?...that two-time Tevis Cup winner, and Haggin Cup winner, Pancho, was a Morab?...that Morabs have been around about as long as the original Morgan, and that they can be found in many registries such as the Quarter Horse and Morgan Registries?...that Morabs are excelling in top competitions in a wide variety of disciplines, such as endurance racing, reining, combined driving events, dressage, Hunter pleasure, hunter jumping, etc.?...that Morabs have almost non-existant feet and leg problems?...that Morabs can also qualify to be registered as American Warmbloods?...that the Morab is considered to be one of the fastest growing breeds in America today?...that the turnover rate for the Morab breed is almost non-existant? ....once people have them up old enough to use, they like them so well that they never sell them...Want to know more???

Rare Gaited Morgan Stallion, Mary Mels Mystery, as a 6 year old in Utah.

The foals we've had the last four springs sired by Mystery are the fruit of a journey that began several years ago. Some of our Morabs and Morgans out of a certain Morgan dam line were popping up gaited, and this intriqued us. We like to trail ride, and, although the Morabs have proven to be very smooth to ride even when not *gaited*, the thought of a gaited Morab was very appealing to us. We began to pray and search for a very special stallion. We began to find out that these gaited Morgans are hard to find - very few have bred for them in the last 5 decades. And finding a high quality adult for sale was even harder, especially a stallion. And we didn't want just *any* stallion - he had to be a very special boy. We only found a very few young colts, who were good boys, but we didn't want to wait for them to grow up. In June 1999 we happened to contact Mel Fransden of Mary Mel Morgans in Utah. He is probably the oldest breeder of gaited Morgans. As it turned out, he had *just* decided to sell Mystery, a stallion he had kept for his own breeding program. Mystery was too related to be used there. The horse was never advertised for sale - we bought him before that could happen. It took almost a year before we could actually get him home, but it did happen. He's been with us three years now, and we have enjoyed him so much. Lovely to look at, and lovely to handle. We are very blessed to have him for our breeding program. If you click on his picture above, it will take you to the website for the Single-Footing Morgan Club - Mary Mel farm site is there, and pictures of Mystery in the stallion section.
Gaited Morgan Stallion, Mary Mels Mystery, age 10 in Arkansas

In just the short time we've had him, we can see him maturing more and filling out more. He has tremendous bone, and wonderful smooth muscling. A powerful animal who is as sweet as they come. We have taken him to three horse fairs here in Arkansas - the first time he had been exhibited in public. We were overwhelmed at how well he was received...even the world famous trainer, Richard Shrake, saw him and liked him. Said he was the first gaited Morgan he'd ever seen. World known Tenn. Walking Horse trainer/judge, Bobby Richards, used Mystery in one of his clinics this year, and was highly complimentary of him. If you click on this picture, it will take you to the Gaited Horse website photo album where Mystery is pictured. That whole website is great - be sure to check it all out.