APPALOOSA HISTORY
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This article was published in the Horse Lover's Magazine November-December 1969:12, 57-58
Appaloosa History: Ten Who Shaped A Breed
Old Painter, Old Tony, Toby I, El Morrocco, Dark Cloud, Patchy, Sundance, Apache, Tip and Mansfield's Comanche.
“Certain stallions have contributed a wealth of blood and heritage to the modern day Appaloosa. There have been many greats among the spotted stallions foaled during the past half century, but a few stand out among the rest. These are truly the foundation sires of the breed in which no definite foundation sires have been named.”

[1] OLD PAINTER (FOALED APPROXIMATELY 1924). CLAUDE J THOMPSON OF MORO, OREGON, WAS THE FOUNDER AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE APPALOOSA HORSE CLUB. HE BASED HIS OWN APPALOOSA BREEDING PROGRAM ON THE BLOOD OF A STALLION CALLED OLD PAINTER.
[2] OLD TONY
MORE HORSES IN THE CALIFORNIA APPALOOSA POPULATION TRACE BACK TO OLD TONY THAN TO ANY OTHER FOUNDATION HORSE.
[3] TOBY I (FOALED 1939) [1936-1966])
BRED BY GUY LAMB. TOBY I WAS HIGH POINT PERFORMANCE HORSE AT THE FIRST NATIONAL APPALOOSA SHOW HELD IN LEWISTON, IDAHO IN 1948. ONE OF THE BEST ORGANIZED OF THE BREEDERS ORGANIZATIONS IS TOBY BREEDERS.

[4] EL MORROCCO F-18 (FOALED 1935)
ONE OF THE FIRST HORSES IN THE REGISTRY AND ONE OF ITS MOST PROLIFIC SIRES. OWNED BY SPILLER HE SIRED OVER 100 FOALS IN A THREE YEAR PERIOD. SPILLER LATER SOLD HIM TO WESTERN FILM STAR GENE AUTRY, WHO USED HIM IN FILMS AND AS A PERSONAL APPEARANCE MOUNT.
[5] DARK CLOUD F-330 (FOALED 1944)
OKLAHOMA PRODUCED ONE OF THE PREMIER SIRES OF RANCH USING APPALOOSAS WHEN DARK CLOUD F-330 WAS FOALED. DARK CLOUD BLOOD HAS GONE TO BREEDERS NATIONWIDE. THEY ARE USED FOR JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING AND ARE ESPECIALLY COLOR PREPOTENT. DARK CLOUD BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.
[6] PATCHY F-416 (FOALED APPROXIMATELY 1939).
PATCHY WAS BOTH A PERFORMANCE HORSE AND AN OUTSTANDING SIRE. HOWEVER, HIS PATERNAL BREEDING IS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. ONE VOLUME OF THE STUD BOOKS STATES THAT PATCHY WAS SIRED BY A HORSE NAMED PATCHES, BUT OTHER SOURCES CLAIM HE WAS SIRED BY SEATTLE CHIEF. PATCHY WAS GRAND CHAMPION STALLION AT THE FIRST NATIONAL APPALOOSA SHOW AND CAME BACK TO WIN HIGH POINT PERFORMANCE HORSE HONORS AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL NATIONAL. HIS MOST FAMOUS SON, PATCHY JR F-1380 (OUT OF SUNDANCE F-500 DAUGHTER, LEOPARD LADY F-167), WAS RESERVE CHAMPION STALLION AT THE SEVENTH NATIONAL IN 1954 AND CAME BACK TO WIN THE GRAND CHAMPION STALLION IN 1955. THE LIST OF SHOW AND RACE WINNING PATCHY DESCENDANTS COULD FILL A BOOK. A FEW OF THE BEST KNOWN ARE SHAVANO [F-1679], MAGIC [F-1381], KATHY [F-895], LOLO [F-462], APACHE PATCH [F-3088], TOBY PATCH [25726], (PATCHY JR'S) OO WOW EE [8227], LADYFINGER [23730], PATCHY JR'S SHAUN TONGA [19565], WARREN'S RED DOG [17253/APHCC 1222], BOXBY [?], AND PATCHY JR'S LILA GLESKA [T-2176/APHCC 404]. PATCHY WAS A STRIKING BLANKET HIPPED HORSE WHO SIRED PREDOMINATELY BLANKET AND LEOPARD PATTERNED OFFSPRING. THE VERY ACTIVE PATCHY BREEDERS.
