LegacyMares CottonCandy 3.10 - American Morgan Horse ...

The 1976 stallion Aquila’s Night Pride (ApplevaleNightwatch x Foxy’s Cotton Queen) was registered as abrown but was a brown-based buckskin or a smoky black, ashe sired a palomino stallion, Audron Pal, from the black mareSprite Hawk. This was quite a surprise to his owner RonaldBrietkrenz, who thought he had two black horses!Queen’s 1979 foal Aquila’s Night Delight, also byApplevale Nightwatch, was registered as a bay, but manythought her a buckskin. Lois showed this mare extensivelywhen she was a junior horse and the Magisano’s daughterGina showed her extensively in the junior exhibitor divisionlater. Lois recalls with a chuckle,“She always elicited the question‘What color is she?’ where ever she went. Tom Butler, whowas helping me train at that time, called her ‘...one of thoseorange-bay horses.’ ”Foxy’s Cotton Queen’s 1983 filly was a palomino, Aquila’sQueen Bee (by Paramount Nominee). She also was thought tobe a flaxen chestnut and registered as such. She produced asmoky black—Amandarose—and three buckskins—Aquila’sCrossfire, Valdirose, and Aquila’s Miss Bee Haven. Aquila’sMiss Bee Haven (by Futurity Command), foaled in 1992, avery dark buckskin mare, was thought to be bay and registeredas such. “Bee” would write a whole chapter of her own as shebecame the foundation of breeder Anne Wyland’s colorfulprogram at Ancan Morgans in Davison, MI.COTTON CANDY, THE GRANDDAMLeft: The late Aquila’s TopCommand (FuturityCommand x Foxy’s CottonQueen) survived two colicsurgeries to sire 22 offspring;Bottom: Aquila’s GrandPrize (Aquila’s Grand Slamx Foxy’s Cotton Queen),palomino mare foaled in1987, was a successful parkshow horse. Owned byMirror Lake Farm;Top photo by Suzy Lucine,right photo courtesy of Lois MagisanoThe Morgan Horse 39