Pride's
Spotted Spirit is DNA tested Homozygous
for the tobiano gene and thus produces 100 % tobiano foals
from solid mares. He is an easy breeder and a real
gentleman. He stands 15.3 H barefooted and produces
intelligent and easily trainable foals with four beat
running walks and rocking chair canters.
Pride is one
of the most gentle and willing horses I have trained. He
has wonderful ground manners and is a calm and safe saddle
horse with no bad habits. He has solid muscles, good bone,
strong feet and has never had any health problems.
His cell
count is over 400 million/ml. with excellent motility
after 48 hours resulting in great success with transported
semen and live cover. Breed for Color, Size, Gait, Gentle
Temperament and Pedigree!
Research into the
pedigrees of Registered Tennessee Walking Horses indicates
that a mare named Sandy Sun's Sally (#471671) is
one of the first registered Tennessee Walking
Horses to carry and pass on the tobiano gene to registered
Tennessee Walking Horse offspring. Sandy Sun's Sally's
pedigree traces to the foundation of the registry. There
were others. Dotie X- 5 and Joy Walker by Joe Allen and
Curlee's Spotted Alen were also early tobianos. These
foundation horses passed the tobiano gene on to many but not
all of the tobiano horses we see in the registry today.
Inheritance of the tobiano
gene was not always well understood. It is now known to be a
case of simple Mendelian dominance controlled by one pair of
alleles. This means the tobiano pattern, unlike sabino and
overo, cannot skip a generation and that a tobiano horse
must have at least one tobiano parent. Before this fact was
known, the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders and Exhibitors
Association allowed tobiano horses without one tobiano
parent to be registered.
This brings into question
the true parentage of these horses. These so called
"grandfathered" horses and their offspring are not from 100
% registered Tennessee Walking Horse stock. In 1989, the
requirement of blood typing was adopted by TWHBEA to
maintain the integrity of the breed. The "grandfathered"
horses and their off spring, having been previously
registered, remain on the books. Individuals who want to own
a registered tobiano Walking Horse can only be assured that
the horse is 100 % Tennessee Walking Horse if the horse's
pedigree traces to the foundation of the breed.
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