BARRELHORSE USA - 2016-02-24 2:13 AM I hate to tell you that is not a picture of SOFT MUSIC ... NONE HAS EVER EXISTED .. PERIOD .. you can see in the picture some one put on allbreed .. the quality of photo, how the cowshed was built and even the ragged halter and the shape of the mare .... it is no where close to being legitimate .. You younger people will believe false pedigrees .. on AQHA .. pedigrees when they were registering anything that even resembled a horse for $2 and large ranches that wanted a registry would do 200 horses and never have complete conformation checks. Whether you had 200 or one horse you lied like a dawg about who might have been the sire and dam ... but 90% would say .. by the Hankins Horse or Jones mare the only one that might have had papers were if they used a remount stations TB stud provided by the government for cavalry horses .... then along came a nutso woman at AQHA about 2000 and started jiving pedigrees with a computer and making up crap prior to 1940 which is all incorrect and totally misleading ... APHA ... in the early 1960's there was a little Paint Stock Horse Group that met each year to showoff the few paint horses they had but no one still knew who was beyond the direct sire or mare with barn names on the horse they were showing ... and Joe Reed did produce a lot of white and whether correct or not was frequently mentioned .. REBECCA TYLER OF GAINSVILLE TEXAS ...... took over the list of paint stock horses and started adding any paint she could find to the new registry APHA IN 1967 .. IT BECOME FORMALIZED IN 1969 ... same thing happened here ... all of a sudden every Indian pony with color had outstanding sires and dams .... it has taken years to get rid of the throwback to the little Indian pony conformations and it still shows up .... Virden Royce paint owner (wife) and Walter Merrick went partners on race bred paints which was a very strong alliance and great for paints ... read this little bit of history .... http://www.rbperformancehorses.com/reference-sires ... she has done a tremendous job as a breeder of high quality paints. I sold her my favorite paint mare HEMPENS EASY CRUISER and both have been great buddies with fantastic foals. ARTIC STORM .. is one of the best all around paints I ever bred and has spent most of his life in Florida .. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/artic+storm WINNER STORM . is the best race track paint I ever bred and to win that much money with lower purses your horse had to be fast and stay sound!! Winner is a good example of all 5 generations coming from SOFT MUSIC .. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/artic+storm Here is another link that will put some correct history on line to enjoy .. http://www.apha.com/foundation/heritage-and-hall-of-fame/aphf-hall-... While you read paint pedigrees keep in mind HEMPEN TB and CHEROKEE ARROW TB WERE FULL BROTHERS ......... Hempen had a well stacked statue type body while CA had a long old fashioned TB lanky bottom sire to CHEROKEE INDIAN APHA .. who was the first paint to be sold to Brazil ... CHEROKEE INDIAN sired two distinctly different conformations ... SACRED INDIAN ... big medicine hat paint for English eventing .. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/sacred+indian INDIANS IMAGE and SUCHANIMAGE as race track and barrel hoses .. etc http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/indians+image http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/suchanimage... A friend of mine Freddie Sumrow owned A SHARPER IMAGE APHA that has produced a lot of high quality paints ... http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/a+sharper+image and has the same dam as the great JUDYS LINEAGE ... JUDYS LINEAGE .. I am sure you younger people know who this great paint sire is ... retired a couple of years ago http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/judys+lineage and we can't forget this great paint mare that started another paint dynasty SKY BAR ... dam to SKY TOP BAR .. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/sky+bar http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/sky+top+bar... HAVE FUN ...

Dreamingofcans - 2016-02-24 11:16 AM  So basically there's no concrete evidence on whether Soft Music was AQHA or APHA