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Ulrich Mystery Print
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King James' Deacon
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Handsome ApHC Leopard Appaloosa Stallion
Ulrich Mystery Print
Stud Fee - $950
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Ulrich Mystery Print is a 15.2 hand, 2016 Appaloosa Stud registered with ApHC. He carries one copy of LP, is homozygous for the PATN1 gene, and carries one copy of the DMRT3 gene for gait! He is foundation bred and carries the coveted Ulrich name. He is clear on all genetic testing! Some of the cool color combinations he can produce are shown above. You are not GUARANTEED spots , but have a 50% chance of your foal turning out with spots, he will NOT throw a varnish roan pattern, only spots or solid colors. "Mystery" has a sweet, lovable disposition and is wonderful on the trails as is his daughter, Pepper. He is also like catnip to the ladies we turn him out with - they won' leave him alone! He is Casanova for sure...
Foal Registration Information:
ApHC Appaloosa Mares - Foals will be eligible for ApHC registration papers.
AQHA, JC, & AHA Mares - Foals will be eligible for ApHC registration papers IF the foal is leopard spotted.
Any Breed of Registered Gaited Mare
**Solid Colored Foals - Eligible for Walkaloosa Horse Association (WHA) ID Papers
**Leopard Spotted Foals - Eligible for Walkaloosa Horse Association (WHA) Papers
**Tobiano Foals - Eligible for Spotted Saddle Horse Breeders and Exhibitors Association (SSHBEA) Papers
**Pintaloosa Foals - Eligible for International Pintaloosa Horse Registry (IPHR) Papers
Foal Registration Information:
ApHC Appaloosa Mares - Foals will be eligible for ApHC registration papers.
AQHA, JC, & AHA Mares - Foals will be eligible for ApHC registration papers IF the foal is leopard spotted.
Any Breed of Registered Gaited Mare
**Solid Colored Foals - Eligible for Walkaloosa Horse Association (WHA) ID Papers
**Leopard Spotted Foals - Eligible for Walkaloosa Horse Association (WHA) Papers
**Tobiano Foals - Eligible for Spotted Saddle Horse Breeders and Exhibitors Association (SSHBEA) Papers
**Pintaloosa Foals - Eligible for International Pintaloosa Horse Registry (IPHR) Papers
Some interesting information about these amazing bloodlines from http://www.leopardappaloosa.com/ulrich-horses.html
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I just love the Ulrich horses. It's in the genes and the body structure of these horses to be docile, quiet, sensible trail horses. A very few still have the gifted Indian Shuffle 4-beat gait. But more important to me is to have a safe horse. These horses are not flighty but are well grounded and slow to react to upsets around them. They have a built in self-confidence such that you can take them out solo on a trail ride. They are unusually high in the pecking order. It is my goal to resurrect more of the Ulrich blood line again in my herd.
Don Ulrich bought leopard bred mares from the Timberline Ranch in Broadview, MT and the very last Navajos Candy colt, and he named him Ulrich Many Coups. Don's famous advertising jingles were "Appaloosa to Appaloosa, and the best to the best." However he realized to continue with the Leopard legacy he needed to expand and enlarge the leopard gene pool dynasty by bringing in other famous leopard lines. Don visited Robert Taylor from Wolf Point, MT and bought Rakush, Ben Buzz and a Jims Ben Lowe leopard mare. He also bought from Lee Warne's ranch in South Dakota, Sully's Butterfly which is the Sundance 500 line. These new leopard blood lines plus the Timberline leopard lines, the Morgan leopard, the Simcoe Sarcee, and of course the Navajo Candy line, and a few other not well known leopard lines which all made up his breeding program.
Mr. Ulrich had noticed a little shuffle gait in a few of his Leopard horses and wanted to develop this trait in his herd. He died before he ever figured out where the gait came from or how he could develop it in his horses. Pete Smith, Mr. Ulrich's trainer, told me he noticed this gait trait in Ulrich's Jungle Matt.From my research it was Morgan's Jungle Kitty that brought the gait trait into some of the horses in Ulrich's herd.
Interesting pedigree Morgan's Jungle Kitty was by Sikanni Chief by Ranger Snip a registered Morgan. Many Morgans were gaited in the past. Sikanni Chief's dam was Kamiac Princess out of Kamiak Trixie, a full sister to Toby I, which brings in the Toby gaited genes. Her bottom side was Morgan leopard. Also I contacted Carol Mulder who is an authority and historian on Arabians. She told me that Alyf, a registered Arabian, was a strong ambler, and this stallion is prominent in Morgan Jungle Kity's pedigree. She said Alyf could gait without effort and could stay in gait beside horses doing a full gallop. This stallion was personally ridden by Carol at the famous Kellog ranch in Pomona, California. So you can see this gaited trait could have come from any one of these three sources or a combination thereof.
I believe in form and function. Horses with broad faces, square muzzles, straight profiles, stocky body builds, lob ears, and almond shaped eyes, all translate to a calm, dependable temperament. The traits above all fit the Ulrich horses to a "T".
Trail riding is the number one past time of most horse owners, and is the trend in the equine market. Some of the pictures shown here are pushing and expanding what a Foundation Ulrich Appaloosa can do. To learn more about the Ulrich horses reference my article, "Why not an Ulrich Horse?"
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I just love the Ulrich horses. It's in the genes and the body structure of these horses to be docile, quiet, sensible trail horses. A very few still have the gifted Indian Shuffle 4-beat gait. But more important to me is to have a safe horse. These horses are not flighty but are well grounded and slow to react to upsets around them. They have a built in self-confidence such that you can take them out solo on a trail ride. They are unusually high in the pecking order. It is my goal to resurrect more of the Ulrich blood line again in my herd.
Don Ulrich bought leopard bred mares from the Timberline Ranch in Broadview, MT and the very last Navajos Candy colt, and he named him Ulrich Many Coups. Don's famous advertising jingles were "Appaloosa to Appaloosa, and the best to the best." However he realized to continue with the Leopard legacy he needed to expand and enlarge the leopard gene pool dynasty by bringing in other famous leopard lines. Don visited Robert Taylor from Wolf Point, MT and bought Rakush, Ben Buzz and a Jims Ben Lowe leopard mare. He also bought from Lee Warne's ranch in South Dakota, Sully's Butterfly which is the Sundance 500 line. These new leopard blood lines plus the Timberline leopard lines, the Morgan leopard, the Simcoe Sarcee, and of course the Navajo Candy line, and a few other not well known leopard lines which all made up his breeding program.
Mr. Ulrich had noticed a little shuffle gait in a few of his Leopard horses and wanted to develop this trait in his herd. He died before he ever figured out where the gait came from or how he could develop it in his horses. Pete Smith, Mr. Ulrich's trainer, told me he noticed this gait trait in Ulrich's Jungle Matt.From my research it was Morgan's Jungle Kitty that brought the gait trait into some of the horses in Ulrich's herd.
Interesting pedigree Morgan's Jungle Kitty was by Sikanni Chief by Ranger Snip a registered Morgan. Many Morgans were gaited in the past. Sikanni Chief's dam was Kamiac Princess out of Kamiak Trixie, a full sister to Toby I, which brings in the Toby gaited genes. Her bottom side was Morgan leopard. Also I contacted Carol Mulder who is an authority and historian on Arabians. She told me that Alyf, a registered Arabian, was a strong ambler, and this stallion is prominent in Morgan Jungle Kity's pedigree. She said Alyf could gait without effort and could stay in gait beside horses doing a full gallop. This stallion was personally ridden by Carol at the famous Kellog ranch in Pomona, California. So you can see this gaited trait could have come from any one of these three sources or a combination thereof.
I believe in form and function. Horses with broad faces, square muzzles, straight profiles, stocky body builds, lob ears, and almond shaped eyes, all translate to a calm, dependable temperament. The traits above all fit the Ulrich horses to a "T".
Trail riding is the number one past time of most horse owners, and is the trend in the equine market. Some of the pictures shown here are pushing and expanding what a Foundation Ulrich Appaloosa can do. To learn more about the Ulrich horses reference my article, "Why not an Ulrich Horse?"
Mystery's foals and genetic information -
King James' Deacon
MFTHBA Dark Palomino Stallion
- Limited Breeding
Stud Fee $950
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"Deacon" is a stunning example of the old foundation lines that created this sought-after breed. His bloodlines are a who's who of legendary Missouri Foxtrotters - including - Sun Dust E., King James, Lady Anne F., Missouri Traveler E., Merry Boy Sensation, Golden Governor, Zane Grey's Cody Bill etc...
Deacon is 15 hands and 21 years old. He has a super-smooth, natural, 4 beat gait, fabulous foxtrot and easy canter. He is 6 panel negative and has two copies of the gait gene. We restarted him under saddle after not being ridden in over a decade and he went straight to riding with no fuss. This is one great minded stallion that sires amazing foals!
We were lucky enough to find this amazing, naturally-gaited, stocky, handsome fellow from none other than Dale Esther's amazing granddaughter Ashley, who I consider our new, dear friend. We are beyond honored to help carry on their proud legacy of the best horses ever.
Deacon is 15 hands and 21 years old. He has a super-smooth, natural, 4 beat gait, fabulous foxtrot and easy canter. He is 6 panel negative and has two copies of the gait gene. We restarted him under saddle after not being ridden in over a decade and he went straight to riding with no fuss. This is one great minded stallion that sires amazing foals!
We were lucky enough to find this amazing, naturally-gaited, stocky, handsome fellow from none other than Dale Esther's amazing granddaughter Ashley, who I consider our new, dear friend. We are beyond honored to help carry on their proud legacy of the best horses ever.
Some of Deacon's offspring below-
Article by Dale Esther, Deacon's prior owner and a MFTHBA legend.
Zane Grey
My wife, Janet, and I live in the house where I was born on a 600 acre farm that lays along Hwy 5 thirteen miles north of Lebanon, MO. My father was a cattle buyer who made a living from the back of a Fox Trotting horse from the turn of the century until roads improved in the 1930s. I started riding young and have a life long involvement with Fox Trotters.
We usually keep around seventy head of registered Missouri Fox Trotters. The foal crop runs from ten to fifteen per year. Most buyers seem to want a cute weanling or an experienced horse.
I've never cared much for riding a circle. The horses that I won on when I was young were all using horses. Golden Governor, Golden Rawhide, and Red Rawhide were raced, roped off of, worked on cattle, and broke to do anything that I wanted. Zane Grey despised cattle, but even he worked as lead horse at Tan Tara Resort before he became famous.
Janet enjoys training and showing her own horse. I take care of the feeding and shoeing for her. She won the Three Year Old Futurity on Gold Exchange when they still cantered and there was no amateur division. Cody's Platinum Plus and Sundust's Tiger Lily won Celebration classes for her. I show at least once year at the Celebration. I'm the only person left who has ridden in every one.
Rick Watson showed a three year old stallion, King James, for us. King James is by Sundust E. out Missouri's Echo. Carl Potter of Springfield, MO raised him. I bought him as a yearling from Jam McCracken at Gale Thompson's sale in West Plain MO. When I got home and told Janet that I'd bought horse, she said, "just what we need, another horse." After I backed him out of the trailer, she said, "I see why you bought another horse."
Back in 1957, Joe Hinds of Willow Springs, Mo. saw me ride Golden Governor to victory at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia. After the class Joe introduced himself and stated that he'd been thinking about starting a registry for Fox Trotters, and Governor looked like the horse to base it on. I'd been considering the need for a registry myself. I told him however, that selecting one stallion as the standard probably wasn't a good idea even if it was mine.
When we applied for a charter, the Secretary of State informed us that a registry already existed for the Missouri Fox Trotting Horses. "Where in the ______ is it?" asked Joe. "In Ava, MO." was the reply. The organization was dormant but their corporate paperwork was intact. We re-organized MFTHBA in 1958 and began registering horses at number 100. In 1959, we held the first Celebration Horse Show.
I had borrowed $300.00 and bought Golden Governor from Wheeler McCain's widow in 1954. There was no place locally to show a horse that fox trotted, but I was proud of my horse and hauled him to parades. Few knew what a fox trot was, they just wanted a horse like Governor. They bred whatever they had: Governor put a fox trot on 90% of the foals. Golden Governor was sired by Ozark Golden King by Old Fox.
Prior to Governor's arrival on the farm, I already had a pair of mares that were to become important factors in my bloodline. They were Snip Lady by Allen Black Magic by Merry Boy and Nancy Ann by Ted by Cadmus Dare. Nancy Ann's dam was the B. Mills mare by Old Fox.
Nancy Ann was hard to settle, and I raised only two foals from her by Governor: Golden Rawhide and Lady Ann E. Of the thirty-eight World Grand Champions in performance, twenty-five trace to Golden Governor. The Golden Governor - Nancy Ann cross accounts for twenty-three of the twenty-five!
Lady Ann E., Nancy Ann's first foal, lost an eye when a hay hauler put my brother Dean's horses together in a stall in order to save himself the effort of opening and shutting a gate. Although the one-eyed mare was never shown, she established herself as Golden Governor's most influential offspring as the dam of Zane Grey, Missouri Traveler E., Sundust E., Black Angel E., and Rawhide's Lady Ann E.
Her younger brother, Golden Rawhide was a wonderful horse that any man, woman or child could ride and show successfully. I never had him cheat me whether he was working as a pick-up horse in a rodeo or winning the stud class at the Celebration. When I shod him the first time, he had an overstride in his fox trot that the public wouldn't accept back then. I pulled his shoes and showed him barefooted until he was four.
Golden Rawhide sired Red Rawhide out of Snip Lady by Allen's Black Magic. Red Rawhide had an incredibly smooth fox trot, lots of cow sense, and no head shake. Red didn't sire show horses, but I've always valued his blood for fox trot rhythm and heart.
I bought Zane Grey by Sterling Merry Boy as a weanling from my brother, Dean, purely because he was out of Golden Rawhide's sister, and I wanted to own him if he amounted to anything. He fox trotted the first time I rode him, but he had a big overstride and a headshake that moved my hands four inches. I thought he was a phenomenal horse, but I wasn't naive enough to think that everybody else would agree.
Zane Grey was the most controversial horse the breed had seen. People loved him or they hated him. They thought he was either the wave of the future or the road to destruction.
Zane had absolutely no interest in cattle. He didn't care whether he headed cow or not. And I never could be sure that he wouldn't nicker. Both of these qualities were very irritating to me. On the other hand nothing could move down the road like he could.
Before the Celebration, I'd have the farrier mule foot Zane behind to shorten his overreach as much as possible. He won the Three year Old Championship in 1967 and became World Grand Champion in 1968.
Zane's first foal was Diamond Duke out of Diamond Head by Golden Rawhide. Wayne Jones of Waynesville, MO rode Duke to the World Grand Championship in 1971. The following years, I had bred Zane to 140 mares in a breeding season that extended in to the fall. Zane Grey died of a twisted intestine on March 28, 1973, two months short of his ninth birthday.
There's a lot of interest in alternate breeding methods now, but I don't ship semen. Despite advances in technology, the success rate is too low for me to justify the trouble and expense.
When trying to decide which stallion to cross on a particular mare, I keep in mind that every horse has a weakness whether it's in size, gait, conformation, or disposition. Avoid crossing individuals with the same weaknesses. Never breed for color unless quality is there. Acquired characteristics aren't passed on.
The best promotion for the breed has always been selling a good horse with a true fox trot. Anytime a Fox Trotter goes into a new area, it's probably going to teach it's new owner and all of the owner's friends, the gait. Horses that need gait modification don't fill the bill.
Back in the '80s Janet was struggling to design a silhouette of a horse fox trotting. One day she asked me to look at her latest effort, I knew she wanted me to say it was ok, but I blurted out, "They're either fox trottin' or they're not." She gave me a funny look and shortly came up with a horse doing a proper fox trot. She later created the emblem currently seen on MFTHBA registration papers and merchandise; she designed the Breeder's Cup emblem. Last winter she designed a Fox Trotter whose conformation is about ideal and copyrighted it.
Lots of things have changed in the last forty years. There are more horses. There are more good horses; they're better looking and better trained. The Celebration has gone from a one night show with horses being approved for registration before they could compete, to a week long event with an international flavor. The Breeder's Cup, of which I'm president, offers more prize money than a good farm used to cost. These things are not beyond my vision of what a breed registry could help do. I just thought they might not occur during my lifetime.
Published in the August 1998 Issue of the Trainer's Voice.
copyright by Dale Esther
Zane Grey
My wife, Janet, and I live in the house where I was born on a 600 acre farm that lays along Hwy 5 thirteen miles north of Lebanon, MO. My father was a cattle buyer who made a living from the back of a Fox Trotting horse from the turn of the century until roads improved in the 1930s. I started riding young and have a life long involvement with Fox Trotters.
We usually keep around seventy head of registered Missouri Fox Trotters. The foal crop runs from ten to fifteen per year. Most buyers seem to want a cute weanling or an experienced horse.
I've never cared much for riding a circle. The horses that I won on when I was young were all using horses. Golden Governor, Golden Rawhide, and Red Rawhide were raced, roped off of, worked on cattle, and broke to do anything that I wanted. Zane Grey despised cattle, but even he worked as lead horse at Tan Tara Resort before he became famous.
Janet enjoys training and showing her own horse. I take care of the feeding and shoeing for her. She won the Three Year Old Futurity on Gold Exchange when they still cantered and there was no amateur division. Cody's Platinum Plus and Sundust's Tiger Lily won Celebration classes for her. I show at least once year at the Celebration. I'm the only person left who has ridden in every one.
Rick Watson showed a three year old stallion, King James, for us. King James is by Sundust E. out Missouri's Echo. Carl Potter of Springfield, MO raised him. I bought him as a yearling from Jam McCracken at Gale Thompson's sale in West Plain MO. When I got home and told Janet that I'd bought horse, she said, "just what we need, another horse." After I backed him out of the trailer, she said, "I see why you bought another horse."
Back in 1957, Joe Hinds of Willow Springs, Mo. saw me ride Golden Governor to victory at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia. After the class Joe introduced himself and stated that he'd been thinking about starting a registry for Fox Trotters, and Governor looked like the horse to base it on. I'd been considering the need for a registry myself. I told him however, that selecting one stallion as the standard probably wasn't a good idea even if it was mine.
When we applied for a charter, the Secretary of State informed us that a registry already existed for the Missouri Fox Trotting Horses. "Where in the ______ is it?" asked Joe. "In Ava, MO." was the reply. The organization was dormant but their corporate paperwork was intact. We re-organized MFTHBA in 1958 and began registering horses at number 100. In 1959, we held the first Celebration Horse Show.
I had borrowed $300.00 and bought Golden Governor from Wheeler McCain's widow in 1954. There was no place locally to show a horse that fox trotted, but I was proud of my horse and hauled him to parades. Few knew what a fox trot was, they just wanted a horse like Governor. They bred whatever they had: Governor put a fox trot on 90% of the foals. Golden Governor was sired by Ozark Golden King by Old Fox.
Prior to Governor's arrival on the farm, I already had a pair of mares that were to become important factors in my bloodline. They were Snip Lady by Allen Black Magic by Merry Boy and Nancy Ann by Ted by Cadmus Dare. Nancy Ann's dam was the B. Mills mare by Old Fox.
Nancy Ann was hard to settle, and I raised only two foals from her by Governor: Golden Rawhide and Lady Ann E. Of the thirty-eight World Grand Champions in performance, twenty-five trace to Golden Governor. The Golden Governor - Nancy Ann cross accounts for twenty-three of the twenty-five!
Lady Ann E., Nancy Ann's first foal, lost an eye when a hay hauler put my brother Dean's horses together in a stall in order to save himself the effort of opening and shutting a gate. Although the one-eyed mare was never shown, she established herself as Golden Governor's most influential offspring as the dam of Zane Grey, Missouri Traveler E., Sundust E., Black Angel E., and Rawhide's Lady Ann E.
Her younger brother, Golden Rawhide was a wonderful horse that any man, woman or child could ride and show successfully. I never had him cheat me whether he was working as a pick-up horse in a rodeo or winning the stud class at the Celebration. When I shod him the first time, he had an overstride in his fox trot that the public wouldn't accept back then. I pulled his shoes and showed him barefooted until he was four.
Golden Rawhide sired Red Rawhide out of Snip Lady by Allen's Black Magic. Red Rawhide had an incredibly smooth fox trot, lots of cow sense, and no head shake. Red didn't sire show horses, but I've always valued his blood for fox trot rhythm and heart.
I bought Zane Grey by Sterling Merry Boy as a weanling from my brother, Dean, purely because he was out of Golden Rawhide's sister, and I wanted to own him if he amounted to anything. He fox trotted the first time I rode him, but he had a big overstride and a headshake that moved my hands four inches. I thought he was a phenomenal horse, but I wasn't naive enough to think that everybody else would agree.
Zane Grey was the most controversial horse the breed had seen. People loved him or they hated him. They thought he was either the wave of the future or the road to destruction.
Zane had absolutely no interest in cattle. He didn't care whether he headed cow or not. And I never could be sure that he wouldn't nicker. Both of these qualities were very irritating to me. On the other hand nothing could move down the road like he could.
Before the Celebration, I'd have the farrier mule foot Zane behind to shorten his overreach as much as possible. He won the Three year Old Championship in 1967 and became World Grand Champion in 1968.
Zane's first foal was Diamond Duke out of Diamond Head by Golden Rawhide. Wayne Jones of Waynesville, MO rode Duke to the World Grand Championship in 1971. The following years, I had bred Zane to 140 mares in a breeding season that extended in to the fall. Zane Grey died of a twisted intestine on March 28, 1973, two months short of his ninth birthday.
There's a lot of interest in alternate breeding methods now, but I don't ship semen. Despite advances in technology, the success rate is too low for me to justify the trouble and expense.
When trying to decide which stallion to cross on a particular mare, I keep in mind that every horse has a weakness whether it's in size, gait, conformation, or disposition. Avoid crossing individuals with the same weaknesses. Never breed for color unless quality is there. Acquired characteristics aren't passed on.
The best promotion for the breed has always been selling a good horse with a true fox trot. Anytime a Fox Trotter goes into a new area, it's probably going to teach it's new owner and all of the owner's friends, the gait. Horses that need gait modification don't fill the bill.
Back in the '80s Janet was struggling to design a silhouette of a horse fox trotting. One day she asked me to look at her latest effort, I knew she wanted me to say it was ok, but I blurted out, "They're either fox trottin' or they're not." She gave me a funny look and shortly came up with a horse doing a proper fox trot. She later created the emblem currently seen on MFTHBA registration papers and merchandise; she designed the Breeder's Cup emblem. Last winter she designed a Fox Trotter whose conformation is about ideal and copyrighted it.
Lots of things have changed in the last forty years. There are more horses. There are more good horses; they're better looking and better trained. The Celebration has gone from a one night show with horses being approved for registration before they could compete, to a week long event with an international flavor. The Breeder's Cup, of which I'm president, offers more prize money than a good farm used to cost. These things are not beyond my vision of what a breed registry could help do. I just thought they might not occur during my lifetime.
Published in the August 1998 Issue of the Trainer's Voice.
copyright by Dale Esther
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Our Former Stallion
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Sire to Our Filly Silk
FRD Pure Luck's Sure Luck
**No Longer Standing at TXMFT**
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Tucker is a 15.2 hand, registered MFTHBA and SSHBEA stallion. He is tested homozygous for the tobiano gene and black gene which means he will throw color every time and never a red foal. So any Missouri Foxtrotter he is bred to can be triple-registered MFTHBA, SSHBEA & Pinto (PtHA). Any gaited horse (if not a MFTHBA) can be double-registered as SSHBEA and Pinto (PtHA). And any horse, even un-registered, can be registered as a Pinto out of him as he will ALWAYS throw spots.
He is also tested positive for the "gait-keeper" gene - he is AA - which means he carries 2 copies of the gait gene - the strongest you can have to potentially throw gait.
He is also tested positive for the "gait-keeper" gene - he is AA - which means he carries 2 copies of the gait gene - the strongest you can have to potentially throw gait.
FRD Pure Luck's Sure Luck's pedigree and homozygous tests -
More videos of Tucker's gaits and his offspring...
His 10 year old son Splash foxtrotting...
How sweet his babies are...Winchester at a few months old.
April lying down as a yearling...
FRD Pure Luck's Sure Luck "Tucker" is a homozygous for tobiano and black MFTHBA & SSHBEA Stallion. He is also tested positive for the AA gait gene - which means he carries 2 copies of the gait gene - the strongest a horse can have to potentially throw gait. There is more information on his page about the gait gene and why you should have any stallion you are considering breeding to checked for this if you want a gaited foal. FRD Pure Luck Sure Luck produces very large foals and they are always spotted as he is tested homozygous for the tobiano gene and the black gene as well, so he will not throw a red gene even out of a chestnut mare. He has produced two 16.3 hand horses out of 15 hand mares - ANY get, whether the mare is registered or un-registered, that Tucker sires, will be register-able as a Pinto (if not gaited) and both a Pinto and SSHBEA (if gaited). Most of his foals are 14 hands at 1 year old. All of his foals have matured at over 15 hands, many 16 hands and some 16.3 hands with a stick. If you want big, colorful, smooth-gaited and gentle, he's your man! He is a lovely smooth-gaited trail horse with a fabulous, barefoot, natural foxtrot. His foals are so lovely that we have sold yearlings for $6,500 and some trained trail horses for 30,000. He is still producing wonderful, gentle, gorgeous foals and should be for many years to come. He pasture breeds, hand breeds easily and also AI's. He currently hangs out in his 20 acre pasture with mares and newborn foals and takes gentle care of all of them as well as people. We don’t worry about guests going into his pasture to say hello - as he is the gentlest stallion we have ever owned.