Stallions at TXMFT
We have a new gorgeous leopard Appaloosa stallion - Ulrich Mystery Print
Stud fee - $950
Ulrich Mystery Print is a 2016 Appaloosa Stud. 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.
Foal Registration Information:
ApHC Appaloosa Mares - Foals will be eligible for ApHC registration papers.
Any Breed of Gaited Mare
**Solid Colored Foals - Eligible for Pleasure Saddle Horse Registry (PSHR) 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.
Any Breed of Gaited Mare
**Solid Colored Foals - Eligible for Pleasure Saddle Horse Registry (PSHR) 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?"
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Our Former Stallion
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Sire to Our Fillies Silk & Madonna
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.
From the Gaited Morgans Association website...How does the DNA Gene Test affect you as a potential buyer or breeder whether gaited or non gaited? The AA horse normally gaits from birth and only gets stronger in gait. The CA horse may only gait a short period, a few months. Then demonstrates gait under saddle. The DNA Gene test would be helpful in determining whether a horse is CA or CC for the horse who stops gaiting and then gaits again under saddle or the horse which never gaited and starts gaiting under saddle. The article written by Lee Zeigler Convert The Trot can be helpful in improving the gait of a gaited horse or train a trotting horse to gait. The test could be used by those who do not want any gait gene in their horse and use the test to verify the horse is CC.
Some Gaited Morgan breeders see the DNA SynchroGait Gene A test as a means to insure only strongly gaited foals are produced and also a guranatee to verify the horse being sold is naturally gaited. The bottom line if the dam and sire are both AA. Then only strongly gaited foals will result which seem to sell themselves.
SynchoGait Gene Test offered by UC Davis
The DNA test will ID the horse's gait genes as one of the following three. Homozygous A/A --- the horse will perform ambling and lateral gaits. Heterozygous A/C --- the horse will perform lateral gaits. Homozygous C/C -- the horse will perform the walk, trot and canter. This is explained in greater detail in the article SynchroGait-Summary
AA x AA = 100% of the offspring will be AA
CA x AA = 50% will be AA and 50% will be CA
CA x CA = 25% will be AA, 50% will be CA, 25% will be CC
CA x CC = 50% will be CC and 50% will be CA
AA x CC = 100% will be CA
CC x CC = 100% will be CC
All of his previous foals have been 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 trained under saddle and is the easiest horse we have ever trained. His foals are so lovely that we have sold yearlings for $6,500 and some trained trail horses for 30,000.
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.
From the Gaited Morgans Association website...How does the DNA Gene Test affect you as a potential buyer or breeder whether gaited or non gaited? The AA horse normally gaits from birth and only gets stronger in gait. The CA horse may only gait a short period, a few months. Then demonstrates gait under saddle. The DNA Gene test would be helpful in determining whether a horse is CA or CC for the horse who stops gaiting and then gaits again under saddle or the horse which never gaited and starts gaiting under saddle. The article written by Lee Zeigler Convert The Trot can be helpful in improving the gait of a gaited horse or train a trotting horse to gait. The test could be used by those who do not want any gait gene in their horse and use the test to verify the horse is CC.
Some Gaited Morgan breeders see the DNA SynchroGait Gene A test as a means to insure only strongly gaited foals are produced and also a guranatee to verify the horse being sold is naturally gaited. The bottom line if the dam and sire are both AA. Then only strongly gaited foals will result which seem to sell themselves.
SynchoGait Gene Test offered by UC Davis
The DNA test will ID the horse's gait genes as one of the following three. Homozygous A/A --- the horse will perform ambling and lateral gaits. Heterozygous A/C --- the horse will perform lateral gaits. Homozygous C/C -- the horse will perform the walk, trot and canter. This is explained in greater detail in the article SynchroGait-Summary
AA x AA = 100% of the offspring will be AA
CA x AA = 50% will be AA and 50% will be CA
CA x CA = 25% will be AA, 50% will be CA, 25% will be CC
CA x CC = 50% will be CC and 50% will be CA
AA x CC = 100% will be CA
CC x CC = 100% will be CC
All of his previous foals have been 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 trained under saddle and is the easiest horse we have ever trained. His foals are so lovely that we have sold yearlings for $6,500 and some trained trail horses for 30,000.
Queenie is 16.3 hands - sold for $30,000
"Boss-man" is over 16 hands
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...
April gaiting - she sold as a yearling for 6,500...
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. We dearly love this amazing fellow and will carefully screen his new home as his happiness is paramount to us. “Tucker” is one of the greatest horses we have ever known.