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I love appies! The one I had been around was very similar to a mule. Your cues had to to be exactly right or he was ignoring you. If you insisted that he do what you wanted with the wrong cue you went flying. But when the chips where down he came through every time. He saved my life once because he was smarter than the average horse I rode. <3 One of the neighbors had a couple of them as well. I did not ride them, but there always seemed to be a bit more discussion with them then with the QHs. :P <br />

She is really nice and smooth. Congrats.

Her yearling photo

I would think not LpLp but lacy blankets are hard to say on. Any info on the dam?

http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/scandalous+dreams2 Here's her mom's pedigree.

http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/bjc+asher+seven And her dad's.

I meant any info on the dams genetics. :D

Nice lines on her though.

No info on dam's genetics. I will ask this weekend and will hopefully be getting good shots of all the breeding stock on the property. It's been ages since I've done photography and videos the farm owners are letting me have free reign on Saturday afternoon and Sunday before we leave.

Little update on Glitter: training is coming along wonderfully. Working on leading from both sides, lunging with posture and voice commands, feet, bathing, and even got a bit of sacking out done and put a surcingle on her fully tightened with no issues! Hoping soon to start her ponying so I can take her on trail.

Last note is that we are pretty sure she's night blind so we are thinking that she's likely homozygous for Lp.

It's awesome that you know to watch for night blindness.

The breeder suspected homozygosity and I really hadn't thought about night blindness until I threw her hay in the shadows at night and she couldn't find it. Then it clicked. Last week she had dumped her water bucket and trampled it which was very out of character for her. We thought she was just like our obnoxious ones who like to destroy things but she hasn't been like that since we have had her. I told my dad and he said she has not been able to find her hay at night with him either. It won't be an issue because we stall our horses at night but it is definitely an indicator of homozygous Lp!

Maybe you could consider having a color genetic test done. It will either confirm the suspicion or rule it out.

Haven't measured her but she's just about the same height as our 16hh Draft mix. She also towers over our old 30 year old QH mare who is 14hh in front and 14.2 behind. I haven't had the spare cash to gene test her but since we've had snow I noticed her front hooves (the two without white markings) are shell coloured. This is another homozygous Lp indicator! She has less trouble with night feeding now as the new barn has outside lights on timers which come on when we do our night feed. She hones right in on the hay piles!