I am so pumped about this guy!
I didn’t know much about the bottom side of his pedigree until yesterday and phew, there are some nice ponies there! The top side explains itself!
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations! I’m not too familiar with QH breeding but had a lovely mare in the early 2000s by Peppy San Badger. Loved that horse.
What is your plan with him? More photos?
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He’s beautiful. I’ve always been fond of POA’s.
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Get him on cows right quick! Fabulous breeding on top.
Well he sure is attractive! Not familiar with popular POA lines but the horse side is wonderful! Hope he is as well behaved, usable, as he appears. Will be such a pleasure to work with. I have always liked POAs, they are not usually “pony minded” in attitude. Have seen a lot of very nice ones, easy to live with and enjoy. Color is a bonus!
Keep us informed on how things go with him. Stallions are different thinkers. We bought one in March, still getting used to each other. He is quiet, cooperative in all settings. He went to a combined driving event a week ago and most people never noticed he was a stallion. They just liked his looks (he does seem to have charisma, attracting people) and his good attitude in work! Well trained to ride or drive. Turns out daily with the geldings to graze and play, with NO ISSUES or fighting! We love that he is nicely social with other horses!! Husband told the stallion he can remain entire as long as he stays a gentleman. We are not breeders, but he is special, not another like him the seller told us! We can work with that.
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Sounds lovely.
When we quit our breeding operation and only kept one stallion and a handful of mares, we also kept him with the geldings.
At breeding time we would lead a mare to tease across the fence, the boss gelding would tease her and 30’ down the fence our stallion would ease over to the gate.
We haltered him and brought in in the pen, he bred her and we led her back down the fence, so geldings stayed out of the gate and we put stallion back in with the geldings.
We never had anyone fight, stallion was about third down from boss and a super chill individual.
There is no reason stallions if they are sensible won’t learn to be good citizens any place we put them.
Ours was my main cow horse for some years, I took him to help work cattle in other places and he never acted at all, some never even noticed he was a stallion.
Once after working cattle all morning, we were at a large windmill tank, letting our horses drink and the cowboy next to me looked over and said, alarmed, “that is a stallion!” and started to pull away. 
Stallions take good management, but a sensible one is worth his weight in gold, is those that should reproduce, if sensible horses is what we are after.
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Have you read the Dragon books? Great yarn about a POA (and the odd ditzy owner)
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I loved those books as a kid. I think I might have a couple of them still in my book collection.
The Spanish really only ride stallions. Geldings are rare and mares are kept in the paddocks for breeding. Go into a Spanish stables and there are rows of stallions all living peacefully together.
OP, I wish you well with your new purchase.
