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From a black spanish arab-looking mustang mare named "Cheeco", with even blacker spots, mottled skin and sclera, a working cutting mare, and by the chestnut leopard stallion "Daylight" of thoroughbred and spanish barb breeding came "Sundance" a bay leopard. 

Sundance was a trick horse and a working ranch hand.  He was about 1,000 lbs, 15 hands and produced easily -recognized color in his offspring.  He is a recognized and important contributor to the foundation appaloosa lineage.

The 1930s depression era forced many livestock owners to destroy their herds.  Like today, hardship and hard budgets force a bottom line that is sad and can contribute to the extinction of breeds in danger like the foundation appaloosa.  Fortunately Sundance's owner found a new home for him with a government agent charged with selecting the best stallions to keep in safe harbor during the Depression.  This agent called Sundance "the best all-around saddle-type stud they had seen.."

Sundance went on to gain membership in the Appaloosa Club as #500.  There is today a website dedicated to his progeny and his story. http://sundance500.com/  Moons Mirror Image is his great, great, great, great great grandson.  Yet through all the years and careful selection in his...

For whatever reason fate has decided, all three of his first breedings were to older maiden mares in their teens who showed little to no signs of heat, or who had been bred numerous times without result.  Each mare he got pregnant on his first try.  In other words, the mares came here, came in heat to where we noticed easily and he serviced them two or three times in a few days and they went home pregnant. 

His first AI breeding resulting in Stars Artesian Angel, the 2009 filly, was a success on the first shot, again to a maiden mare in her teens.