Cosmos Montana, also known as Monty, is a 2011 bay Morgan gelding, bred and raised at Domino Stables by Susie Weiss. He was sold to his current owner, Mikayla Bennett, as a four year old with lots of potential to be competitive in almost any division. A few years ago, Mikayla and Monty moved to Madison, WI to try their luck in the Hunter/Jumper arena. In just a couple of months it was clear that Monty excelled in the jumper ring. In the past couple of years the pair has been competing against Warmbloods and Thoroughbreds and winning division after division. Near the end of the last show season, Monty and Mikayla placed very well in the Mini Prix, with fence heights set at 3'6 to 4'0. The unassuming, little, bay gelding has written himself as a top competitor no matter who walks into the arena. 

Raphael is my “cool” can do anything horse. We enjoy trail riding him, carriage driving, showing in western pleasure, ponying horses off of him, and anything we can think of!  He is like a Porsche to ride: smooth to ride with power steering!

Since Retiring, I have been enjoying our horses out of the show arena. We have been enjoying trail riding and driving.

The driving photos were taken at the National Drive, held in Edinburgh, Indiana. They host carriage driving in the spring and fall with over 100 horses in attendance!

Better known as “Nicky” brought some new color to our farm.  His beautiful palomino color and western build is a nice complement to our versatile Morgans. We showed him a little as a three year old Western pleasure and halter horse and we did very well.  I plan on enjoying him in my senior years as a reining and ranch horse.  I have always wanted to do reining and now I plan to do so.

2018 was our first year showing “Nicky” in Reining.  We took him to the Morgan Nationals in Oklahoma City for his debut in reining. We won the 2018 Reserve World Champion 3 and 4 year old Snaffle Bit Reining with Manny Hershberger showing him.

In 2019 Susie showed Nicky at the Working Western Celebration Show at the Alliant Center. They had classes for the Morgan Breed sponsored by the Morgan Horse Association and the National Morgan Reining Association.  With Susie and Nicky’s  first show in the Ranch and Reining Classes, we ended up Reserve Champion Morgan.

Our next big show was the Morgan Nationals. We placed Reserve in the Grand National Non-Pro Reining. In the World Championship Non-Pro reining, Nicky did a good job, but “rider” error gave us a score of “0”. It was a mistake I will not forget again!!

We were able to make up for the “rider” error, as we came home as the Reserve World Champion Snaffle Bit Reiner.

Cosmos Ringmaster

Ringo is a good sized colt with a good personality and plenty of talent. As he matures he will let us know what division he will be trained for.

Cosmos Ringmaster we hope will be a new start to a new generation of Cosmos Morgan’s. (Minion Millennium x Cosmos Arbor Mist)  Every year the Morgan Magazine has a “Those Amazing Morgan Foals” contest. We took a photo of Ringmaster (Ringo) for fun and sent it in. We were very surprised with the results of our photo!!  We were Second place in the “Morgan Character” and then First Place in Artistic Composition!! The photos were judged by two different people. Guess it was only fitting to have a photo of a foal in the fog with his mother’s name of Arbor MIST!!

We showed her as a youngster and did well in Park Harness and Saddle.

Being offered for sale is Cosmos Arbor Mist. She is a very versatile horse for any rider or discipline. As a youngster she was shown hunt seat. Arbor has been shown extensively by youth in halter, hunt seat pleasure and western. If you don’t care to show, she is a pleasure to trail ride.

Very competitive in halter, Arbor has won Justin Morgan Classes, Showmanship, Morgan Classes and All breed Classes.  Many times’ winning High Point Awards, all with Junior Exhibitors in riding and halter.

Arbor has presented us with 3 top quality foals sired by 3 different stallions.

Cosmos Highly Independent is a top western pleasure mare, suitable for amateur or youth. Also available for sale.

Cosmos Technicolor is my personal reining/ranch horse.  In 2018 and 2019 Technicolor was AMHA World Champion Jr. Reining Horse.

Cosmos Ringmaster, currently a yearling is ready and willing to leave his mark on the Morgan Breed.

I wish I had a dozen gelding like Vigi. He is like a rock. So willing to do anything we ask. We can ride and drive him. He enjoys everyone and everything we ask of him.

Being offered for sale is Cosmos Highly Independent.  Very sweet and has the patience of a saint to help the rider. “Penny” has been shown in Halter, Showmanship and Western Pleasure.  She has won many High Point Awards at the shows with a Junior Exhibitor.  If you don’t care to show, she is a pleasure to trail ride.

“Phoebe” is a new addition. Her golden color adds some contrast to our Bay and Chestnut Morgans. She has super smooth gaits which makes her a pleasure to ride on the trail or just around the farm.

“C.A.”  is our second generation stallion. The son of our foundation sire: Saddleback Sentinel. He has provided us with many years of enjoyment in the show ring, on the trail, courting our fine Morgan mares and just having him around the farm. He has earned his retirement program with us. With close to 100 foals to his name, you could not ask for a better mannered, trainable and sweet stallion.

It is with sadness that Cosmos Ambassador is no longer with us. We had to put him humanely down in September. It was a hard decision to make, as we could not have asked for a better producing Stallion that gave us the quality with personality and disposition. His actions told us “it was time”, as we did not want to see him suffer once the cold weather came.

“Peaches” has also earned her retirement program with us. Crossed with Cosmos Ambassador, a breeder could not ask for better foals. Her foals are always easy and willing to work with, with great disposition, good size, and incredible workability!  What a “sweety”.

The cold winter month’s were getting hard for “Peaches”,  so she is now in her retirement home in Arizona. She is enjoying more attention in Arizona than she would have had in Wisconsin. She is now a confidence builder for handicapped kids.