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SilverAleki · Sep 23, 2018 12:54 AM

Did anyone else, this breeding season, have a mare or stallion who exceeded your expectations in the foal/s they gave you? I love hearing about the surprise foals people got from that little mare they forgot about or the underdog stallion in the back of the barn haha. I figured I'd share my little story and see if anyone else wanted to share and showoff their surprises too!

This is The Engineer. I bought his sire (Gold Dust) a few months ago purely because I adored the way he looked. I just loved those dapples and colours and his owner was nice enough to sell him to me when I asked about him. Gold Dust was a worse then sire colt but I thought I might use him to breed some really pretty show ponies for myself so I wasn't to worried about quality I just wanted pretty haha. In his first season with me, Gold Dust gave me The Engineer who I kept to add even more bling to my show lines. Well. He turned out to be my unexpected star this season. He has only been to a handful of mares but of that handful of mares roughly half of the foals that he sired papered A or Blue (he is a B himself) with very good pt scores as well as being consistent, very tall (which I breed for) and stunning to look at. For this reason I have nominated him as my unexpected star of the season haha.

SA The Engineer 5G

and here are a few of his foals:

Superior to sire Sty S+ Kitm colt

SA Engineer Days 6G

Blue fillies:

SA Atomic Engineer 6G

SA Engine Raider 5Gu

AgainstTheOdds · Sep 23, 2018 2:12 AM

This little man got everything I wanted him to from his parents. And papered superior.

He's going to be the star of my 2nd gen mushrooms.

ATO Yule Be Mushy 2g

BrightStarFarms · Sep 23, 2018 4:26 AM

The Engineer is just :x

Oh my goodness

SilverAleki · Sep 23, 2018 10:20 AM

@AgainstTheOdds oh wow! He is so cute! I love the mushroom gene, I don’t have it myself so I love seeing other people’s, congrats on such a nice colt :D

@BrightStarFarms thank you! He is one of my favourites ^^

WhiteMountain · Sep 23, 2018 1:17 PM

Cure foals! The Engineer is something else!

Lallyhop · Sep 23, 2018 5:47 PM

2SK Frozen Speckles

Okay, so Speckles isn't quite a huge surprise because of how much I was looking forward to him, but even still he's blown me away with how amazing his foals have been!

3SK First Speckles

3SK Cold Gold

SilverAleki · Sep 23, 2018 9:16 PM

@WhiteMountain thank you!

@Lallyhop he really is amazing! I love the foals I have from your boy too :D

duelinghawks · Sep 24, 2018 12:59 AM

Gorgeous! All of them! As a side note on your awesome surprise stud, I fell in love with S+ a couple of months ago and began buying as many breeders as I could get my hands on. Got a few lovelies that I'm excited about and now I want to expand into some new lines with it...particularly silver-based. Here a are a few of my favorite recent S+ babies:

2817283 DP Bu sx l

sasa Sx sb2 X

Winter Moon sx w3 Lg sup

Dunbroc · Sep 24, 2018 1:19 AM

G7 Lady DarkRose

I bought Lady DarkRose because I really didn't have much of any Sabino 2 in my herd, and I wanted to tap into that a little bit. I have been very pleased with the first foal I got from her, PaintedLadyOnTheMoon, but unfortunately PaintedLady has yet to produce quality like her mother has. I also got a gorgeous filly from Lady DarkRose, she is inconsistent but I hope her flashiness will come through in her foals in the future.

G8 PaintedLadyOnTheMoon

G8 Coastal Rose

Miss Opaque Player

My much beloved Miss Opaque Player. I bought this mare for her sooty and frame. And also because of her sire, Dense Player. Miss Opaque Player passed away a couple months ago, but she has certainly forever stamped her stock in my herd. Her daughter, Obscure Eclipse came out much more plain than I wanted, however I was just happy to have an intact consistent decent filly from my beloved mare. When Obscure Eclipse was old enough to breed, she came in rocking and immediately threw out only my second *Gold foal ever; Queen Eclipse. Queen Eclipse's first two foals have been rocking, a *Gold papered filly, and then next season a *Star colt. All of this, going back to my dear Miss Opaque Player.

G5 Obscure Eclispe

Queen Eclipse

G7 Voodoo Queen

G7 Dionysus

SilverAleki · Sep 24, 2018 2:49 AM

@duelinghawks that first filly especially is gorgeous! I love how that S+ Sty looks with satin over it too. I might have to try it myself haha. Such lovely foals!

@Dunbroc wow! What a line of horses you have going, I really enjoy reading about lines other people work on so thank you for sharing. Obscure Eclipse does look plain but she is clearly quality, Queen Eclipse and Dionysus I think are especially lovely. Congrats on such a nice line :D

kintara · Sep 24, 2018 11:00 AM

This is my surprise superstar, she was a little yellow papered gen2 mare I bought just after christmas last year. She had lots of fun genes so I gave her a bit of a boost to red and hoped if I left her in the pasture she'd give me something pretty of better quality. Well I had a few not so good, but also some really nice foals from her, she became the one I was excited to see what she gave me each time!

G2 E4 Just Do It

Her last daughter was this beauty, who is following in her dams footsteps and giving me some beauties of foals!

KT3 E4 Just A Doll

I got this foal last season who I just love!!

KT4 E4 Highland Doll

I don't often name mares, but I think these ones are special!

SilverAleki · Sep 25, 2018 9:44 AM

@kintara Highland Doll is stunning!

Riverstone18 · Sep 25, 2018 12:49 PM

This is my Surprise Superstar, he's my first A papered mr. meteor milestone grandson, he was from some of the first straws that i had gotten a couple of months right after i got my upgrade :) he's given me some beautiful foals for the past few months :) he's my favorite out of all of my pearls.

RST3g Mr Magic Mile

At one point, i almost sold him when he was a foal... and i'm so glad i didn't because after he turned 3 i went ahead and test him on a few mares :x and got a few blue papered filly's...but when he turned 4, he threw an unexpected snowflake filly

RST4g Magic Rain SNF

And last month, he threw a blue papered filly that's lined to a special mare that i lost a while ago.

RST4g Tangos Legacy

And then this month a blue filly out if my SS gift mare :x

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Amour33 · Sep 25, 2018 6:30 PM

@Dunbroc you and your mare Miss Opaque Player are responsible for my upcoming star filly. I bought one of her sons from you previously and the eggs I recently bought from you gave me this girl who also happens to be the first gold papered born in my barns so a big thank you!

Halfway North

OakBranch · Sep 25, 2018 11:37 PM

White Ash EAtfSL

This boy right here just blew me away. He had some okay foals but then out of left field came his very first filly and she is my very first 2G Blue filly, and her dam had zero pasture bonus.

2G Ms Ash EAtApfL

WindspunFarms · Sep 26, 2018 4:10 PM

My surprise superstar of this past season.. He's thrown an amazing crop of foals! He throws colour as well... and an average foal PT of 11. 21. Loving his babies!

3 MY FINAL NOTICE

SilverAleki · Sep 26, 2018 7:18 PM

@Riverstone what a beautiful line of horses! I love pearl and Mr Magic Mile is a real looker.

@OaksBranch a 2G filly is an amazing thing to get, congrats!

@WindspunFarms that’s a fabulous average pt! I love his dapples too :D

Riverstone18 · Sep 27, 2018 12:51 AM

thank you ^^ and yes! he sure is :x

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