We breed Andalusians of all bloods, from the Pure Spanish lines to the Pure Portuguese lines and like we did with our Pure Polish and Straight Crabbet and El Kamsa, Blue List Straight Arabs we cross our lines to produce top Quality performance horses. Of course we also breed half breds from Quarter Horse, Arab, Paint, Percheron, Thoroughbred and Belgian mare..plus a few Welsh mares for smaller halfbreds! What a joy it is to be in the Andalusian breed. I bought into them as I was told they where smooth. I have been riding pain free since 1997. In cattle ( we have range cows) you have to start fast, stop fast..well do everything fast, turning, spinning and no sooner are you at full tilt you have to stop and walk off calmly. Merlin, our main stallion and a son of the Spanish Champion Estimado V, will charge both bulls and horned cows a like if they don`t move and we have used the "Capriole" in getting cows out of the corners of the corrals. Nice show for those who ask when we are bringing cows home in the fall! All but 2 of our brood mares are also broke to harness and/or saddle. They give lessons, go on trail rides and if I have enough riders just follow the herd down the road...foals running at side. Do we think of photo`s? ..ahhhh. No we get to catch up with the fun! My best cow-mares I have to make sure a good rider is on or at least one that will hand on tight. if a cow breaks she will be after it then go back to hanging the head and plodding along. But our main goal here is, as I said, breeding the best we can.In 2006 Swan Creek bought a beautiful Double dilute weanling colt. By the pure Spanish stallion Golfo de Lirio (buckskin)and out of the perlino pure Portuguese mare Manga. Sueno is very well put together, wide in chest, through barrel and hip with excellent shoulder, neck and type. Plus he tested EeAaCr so , being perlino I will only get Buckskins, Palomino and smoky blacks from him. After this purchase Swan Creek went back to Brazil and found what we have been looking for the last 5 years in a junior sire. Double Dilute with all the bells and whistles. 5 years old and started under saddle in September. When we choose our stallions we look for a horse that will excel in working ranch life. In doing so we are producing big moving horses that have unbelievable drive in and threw the hip, loin and back. Excellent temperaments, and strong work ethics without being aggressive. ( our stallions have to drive and ride side by side with other stallions, mares and geldings). We also choose our stallions for the way their pedigrees will work with not only our Purebred Andalusian mares but also our non-andalusian mares and crossing back onto each of the other stallions~ fillies. 2007 saw how our program was going when we crossed 1 purebred and 1 halfbred mare back to their sire and got exactly what we "knew" we should get and then some! 2 BLACK fillies to keep in the program! Swan Creek is a small but working breeding program of 1 PRE stallion, 8 PRE mares with hopes of adding 2 more, 1 Perlino PSL and 2 PSL mares plus 1 PSP Perlino stallion. All 2009 foals due will be PSP ( PRE/PSL) and PSP (3/4 PRE/ 1/4 PSL). 3 of these foals will be Double Dilute.