Knieval's Pushin Starbucks
"Ice" is a beautiful yearling colt with the right looks, movement and color genetics to make an exceptional future breeding stallion. He is a double agouti cremello tobiano, and his genotype is ee AA CrCr nT. When bred to black, chestnut and bay mares, he can only sire buckskin or palomino offspring with a 50% chance of tobiano per foal. He can never sire a smoky black foal!
Additionally, he is a laid-back young colt with an outstanding temperament and is a quick learner. He is naturally gaited; very square with no pace, just a super smooth 4 beat gait that could go toward the running walk or rack end of the spectrum depending on how he is ridden. He is long striding courtesy of his incredibly laid-back shoulder and loose moving. He would be an exceptional cross to square up your pacey mares so you can raise a foal that doesn't need anything "extra" to get into that comfortable, perfectly smooth gait.
Currently Ice is in training and we plan to campaign him in SSHBEA Sport Horse in 2012.
As breeding plans go, we hope to breed Ice to a handful of our own mares as a 2 year old in 2012, and open his book to a small number of outside mares in 2013.
Ice as a foal
January 1, 2012
