I’m picturing a paint horse, except it has black patches on a bay coat, instead of a white base. Would be pretty cool looking, actually.
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App and Paint folks consider the lines their horses came from because of crop outs to color. So a foal of 2 AQHA parents can be a Paint or App because AQHA just doesn’t register color. My ex AQHA stallion, a sorrel bred to an AQHA sorrel mare produced 2 paint crop outs who could not be registered AQHA even though they were of pure AQHA blood.
Maybe there is some bias between AQHA bred Appies and Appies of other genetics that is being shown by that person.
I think that now any horse from registered QH parents has to be accepted as a QH. There was a lawsuit about their old “white rule”. There is paint at the boarding barn who’s sire is registered both AQHA and APHA.
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I have not looked at the current specifics of what it takes to register a horse with the ApHC, but last time I checked a colored horse out of two AQHA registered parents does not = something that can be registered with ApHC.
I suppose you can claim to not know the parents and spay/geld it and then get hardship papers for it.
Edit to add - Now that I read your post again I think you are saying something different than what I was thinking you were saying. You are talking about AQHA used to have very strict rules about coloring and some crop outs were not able to be registered with AQHA, not that they could be registered with those other breeds.
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A paint horse for instance can be of QH or TB ancestry. So I’m thinking maybe they were specifying. I’m not as sure about Apps so this is my guess.
I have not checked recently but eons ago when I was a member you could breed a registered ApHC horse to a registered TB or registered AQHA horse and get a registered appy.
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You have an extremely rare Quartaloosa. Mid-6 figures, minimum when you go to sell it. 
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My wife trained and competed in dressage with appaloosa sport horses in the 70s and 80s. She and I both believe that any horse can and should do dressage, but how high the horse and rider go depends on the conformation and physical limitations of the horse and desires of the rider.
My wife experienced none of the discrimination towards an appaloosa that Peronace claims. She worked hard, took regular lessons with professionals, showed quite a bit, and had a lot of fun. We believe that dressage is very much about growth and connection with a horse…it’s not for the prizes or the acclaim.
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And therein lies the main difference between you and Maestro Peronace.
He is of the belief that nothing is worth doing if it doesn’t net you prizes and open admiration.
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That coloration does occasionally happen, but somehow I don’t think NP was talking about bay horses with somatic mutations…
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I also used to work with a trainer that rode an Appy-TB sport horse, bay with a classic appy blanket. She did well and never experienced breed bias. I wonder why others can do it without breed bias but the minute Nick tried, everyone was suddenly a warmblood snob. It’s almost like it’s an excuse for Nick’s poor scores or something! Lol.
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Hate to tell you all, but there now are appaloosa quarter horses.
https://m.facebook.com/reminicinspots/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0
If the link doesn’t work Google Reminic In Spots. Fully registered AQHA.
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I don’t believe he ever showed Chevy in a recognized USDF show.
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Did he only ever try to show Chevy once at a schooling show, and was so triggered by the judge trying to explain what he was doing didn’t come close to meeting the requirements of GP that his dreams were crushed and his potentially dazzling competitive career was cut short before it began?
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If that.
Appaloosa is a breed. There may be QHs with coloring similar to that of Appalosas, but they aren’t Appaloosas.
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Appaloosa is a color breed that allows specific crossbreeding.
“Pedigreed Appaloosas must have at least one ApHC-registered parent (sire or dam) classified as Regular (#). The other parent may be registered with the ApHC, or an ApHC-Approved Breed Association: American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), Jockey Club (Thoroughbred), or Arabian Horse Association (AHA or WAHO)”
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I like Kingda Ka’s breeding!
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It is cool looking! But I have a feeling you’re right about it not being what Nick referred to when he said “bay and black.”
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Someone’s little girl must have named his dam, lol. “Sprinkles Rodeogal”.
I am familiar with Heff (by Alydar) only because I remember he had one of the worst conformation photos I’ve ever seen in the BloodHorse stallion register. I don’t mean the conformation was awful, just the photo. I remember thinking - if someone is going to pay that kind of money for a photo listing for their regional sire, why use such a horrible pic?
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