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| IRunOnFaith - 2015-05-04 3:38 PM
wickedstepmother - 2015-05-04 11:55 AM  My sons little app. sweetest little horse ever. Even my daughter is impressed with her natural ability and talebtalent on the barrels. Her name is Dazzle lmao. Oh AND she's half arab hahahah
I'm starting to not overlook a horse by it's appearance. (after getting beat by a horse I overlooked because of coloring) It's taken lots of years and experience tho to overlook it.
Good for you! Dazzle is Super cute!!!!
Right!!!! With all our kids, have I have a soft spot for arabs. They were always free and tough enough to stand up our hard riding kids! And my dad showed on the app circuit in the 60s and 70s and I just love their temperment. Dazzle is just a dollface and super secret....but we didn't pay a dime for her ;) best kids horse ever. AND she's cowy! |
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Location: Midland, TX | Thank you all for your replies! Looks like it's all positive...might just have to experiment with some spots in the future!! :) |
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | I had a REALLY nice one that I lost last October. She was old race lines x cow/foundation QH and ran in the top 20 at our state NBHA finals a week before she died :(. Still have her full sister whom I'm breeding this year to a QH stud that is Playgun x Dash For Perks bred.
This is the mare I lost, ApHC papers (42 lifetime points and 2 ROMs) but she was not colored.
This is her full sister, who has regular ApHC papers, but greyed out. I'm planning on this being a keeper baby and training and running it myself.
And this is an Alias King (Spotted Bull bred) granddaughter that I'm hoping to breed to the same stud and should get a colored dun baby. She's an awesome producer! Not planning on selling this baby either but we will see.
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Location: NC | wickedstepmother - 2015-05-04 5:56 PM IRunOnFaith - 2015-05-04 3:38 PM wickedstepmother - 2015-05-04 11:55 AM My sons little app. sweetest little horse ever. Even my daughter is impressed with her natural ability and talebtalent on the barrels. Her name is Dazzle lmao. Oh AND she's half arab hahahah LOL You weren't satisfied blowing everyone's mind out of the water with running just an appy bred horse. It had to be half arab as well to make sure you got the two most overlooked breeds in the barrel pen all at once huh!? Tehe
I'm starting to not overlook a horse by it's appearance. (after getting beat by a horse I overlooked because of coloring) It's taken lots of years and experience tho to overlook it.
Good for you! Dazzle is Super cute!!!! Right!!!! With all our kids, have I have a soft spot for arabs. They were always free and tough enough to stand up our hard riding kids! And my dad showed on the app circuit in the 60s and 70s and I just love their temperment. Dazzle is just a dollface and super secret....but we didn't pay a dime for her ; ) best kids horse ever. AND she's cowy!
I had a Arab/appy growing up to. she was the best, I had so much fun with her!! super fast and quick. They use to call her 'grease lightening' at the local arena when I was a kid. :-)
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Location: Desert Land | I like appys and have had a couple, but I would not breed for one because there is a high prejudice against them and they just don't have the same market value as an AQHA when it comes barrel prospects. |
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Location: NE TX | CrossCreek had an Appy that was her pro horse. She loved him and talks about him often. To me, as long as they like barrels, have the ability, and have the speed..who cares what they look like..yea looks are fun but you aren't in a halter class being judged on looks, your being judged on who crosses that timer fastest. |
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| TheOldGrayMare - 2015-05-06 11:20 AM
I like appys and have had a couple, but I would not breed for one because there is a high prejudice against them and they just don't have the same market value as an AQHA when it comes barrel prospects.
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If one is already running a set and is something I think I can fix or make better I"ll snatch them up. I don't care if they are an ugly walkaloosa if that sucker can run a time lol |
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| It could be the fastest barrel horse ever and you couldn't pay me to take it. I will never have another app horse, every one of them I have ever swung a leg over had a screw loose. |
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Location: Kansas | FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-05-07 12:36 PM It could be the fastest barrel horse ever and you couldn't pay me to take it. I will never have another app horse, every one of them I have ever swung a leg over had a screw loose.
well arent you just a bowl of sunshine and rainbows today. |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2015-05-07 1:39 PM
FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-05-07 12:36 PM It could be the fastest barrel horse ever and you couldn't pay me to take it. I will never have another app horse, every one of them I have ever swung a leg over had a screw loose.
well arent you just a bowl of sunshine and rainbows today.
She asked for opinions and I gave her mine. I used to race an app, 20 second pole horse. Never took a lame step in his life, and would win about anywhere I took him. Too bad he was 20 shades of psycho and would throw you just as soon as let you run. He was a rank SOB. And every app I've ever rode had the same stupid mind tricks. So I'm getting too old and too smart to deal with them. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-05-07 2:15 PM hoofs_in_motion - 2015-05-07 1:39 PM FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-05-07 12:36 PM It could be the fastest barrel horse ever and you couldn't pay me to take it. I will never have another app horse, every one of them I have ever swung a leg over had a screw loose. well arent you just a bowl of sunshine and rainbows today. She asked for opinions and I gave her mine. I used to race an app, 20 second pole horse. Never took a lame step in his life, and would win about anywhere I took him. Too bad he was 20 shades of psycho and would throw you just as soon as let you run. He was a rank SOB. And every app I've ever rode had the same stupid mind tricks. So I'm getting too old and too smart to deal with them.
Where did you run at? I knew a few Apps that could kick booty and take names, they were just awesome to watch. |
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| I never ran him in any big shows, since he couldn't be stalled and had major gate issues, I only ran him at the pole classes at barrel races, but it was against some NICE pole horses that ran in large shows. |
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 Banjo and Baby
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | I have one but due to babies and life don't have him finished yet. His sire is I Love Willie and has a nice set of papers on him. He's all qh DFC on the bottom and mostly tb on top, goes back to Mr Spotted Bull? And Count Fleet and just because he has spots and ApHC papers many people have passed him up when I've had him for sale, many people are anti appaloosa even if they are barely appaloosa. Wouldn't buy another if I wasn't planning on keeping forever. So no one wanted him unless I gave him away so I guess I'm stuck with him. Here's his pedigree and he's the horse in my avatar. Www.allbreedpedigree.com/cash+option |
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Banjo and Baby
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | check out the Appaloosa barrel horses/sires on fb. A few nice ones for sale. |
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