Curlies are known to be hypo-allergenic. What this means is that if you suffer from an allergy to horses, like my daughter does (she has a severe allergy), you may be able to enjoy horses again or pursue a life long dream to have a horse. Hypoallergenic, by definition, means "having little likelihood of having an allergic response", and this is exactly what we have found to be true in our case.


1995 - I decided that it wasn't fair to my then five year old, growing daughter to continue to have horses - she couldn't breathe when I came in from the horse, even if I had just been out a very brief time. Even though I had had them all my life and they were a true passion of mine, I knew that it wouldn't be fair to this child who was so, so very interested in becoming a horseperson. So when my old arabian mare, who I had had for over two decades, passed away I made the decision to abstain from having a horse until my child was out on her own.


2000 - A friend called me to tell me about a beautiful palomino gelding that she had looked at in her search for a horse for her daughter. Her daughter did not choose this horse, but while they were researching this breed that they had never heard of, the American Curly Horse, they came to understand that this horse might be the answer for us. We travelled 14 hours to see this horse in person and it was like a miracle that my daughter had no reaction to him over the two days we spent with him - of course we bought him!! We quickly arranged to have him shipped to us and began our wonderful association with Curlies Check out Anastasia's page for what she has to say about him.


We did some research too and most everything we read about Curlies said that they had exceptional intelligence, trainability, strong feet and solid bones and that they were an unflappable, non-spooky type of horse. This also has been proven to be true to us, over and over on each and every curly that we have, we now have several broodmares and stand our own stallion! These truly are exceptional horses - very willing and honest and smart!


If my daughter suddenly did not have an allergy to horses, I doubt we would switch breeds now - Curlys are everything that we could ever want and need in an excellent pony club mount, show horse or trail partner. There are also "great" Curly horses such as *Spartacus and his offspring who are wowing people all over with their incredible warmblood performances. Curlies can do it all and are doing it all - put a little curl in your world - you won't regret it!

*Red Running Star - extreme curly gelding