LegacyMares CottonCandy 3.10 - American Morgan Horse ...

COTTON CANDY, FURTHER GENERATIONSRight: Aquila’s Dreammaker(Aquila’s Royal Lea x Aquila’s NightLace). You can see why we might registerthese foals as chestnuts ratherthan palominos, when you look, notonly at him as a foal, but at hisdam’s color. Bottom: MLB TheMadame (Aquila’s Top Command xBoogie Wild) with Mary Brannon ina pleasure driving class at Mid A.(Photo by Shane Shiflet)Regimental Colors (Ancan True Colors x RHB Gemini), abuckskin. Both are headed towards careers as sport horses.Foxy’s Cotton Queen’s 1987 foal was Aquila’s GrandPrize (by Aquila’s Grand Slam), a palomino mare who wonnumerous park saddle classes throughout the Mid-West. Shecommanded the judges’ attention, and this in a day when colorfulhorses were not very popular, especially in the showring. Prize retired to the broodmare band when an unfortunatefracture of a small bone in her foot ended her showingcareer. Her colorful offspring include the buckskin mareAquila’s Grand Vanessa (by Futurity Command), the palominogelding PL Good As Gold (by K-Wood’s Golden Eagle),and Aquila’s Sure Prize (by Futurity Command), a buckskinmare. Sure Prize has in turn produced three foals—all colorful—includingLaurie Faust’s successful show stallion MLBCapo di’ Capo (by The Last Don), a buckskin, and SkylandEpiphany (by Fiddler’s Blackriver), a buckskin broodmare forShades of Morgans in NY.Rounding out Foxy’s Cotton Queen’s colorful producingoffspring is her last foal, the late Aquila’s Top Command(by Futurity Command). Foaled in 1988, the palomino stallionbecame a part of breeder Laurie Faust’s life in 1999.Laurie remembers “I had spent the better part of four yearson a quest trying to locate the type of colorful that also carriedthe bloodlines I desired. A beautiful, refined, long42 March 2010