Little America’s Chip's Trifecta

 

I admit, I have been a pedigree nerd since I was a little kid going with my parents to Shetland Pony Sales in the 1950s.  I always loved to listen to the pedigree announcers like Asa Hutchison, Penn Wheelis and others.  I never wanted to be an auctioneer, but did want to talk about the pedigrees.  When the Journal would arrive in the mailbox, I always wanted to get it first before Daddy got it.  I would read it from cover to cover and memorize the horses that I really liked.  Then when I grew up I volunteered at the first NFC Farm’s production sale to announce when they were measuring to make it go faster.  From that I ended up doing probably over 100 miniature sales from coast and even attended two sales in England.  You are probably wondering why this guy is telling all this trivia and “Who cares?”  Well, I, Tony Greaves, am still that little five year old, pedigree crazy kid who is now over 81 and tonight realizedd we had a “pedigree nerd’s” dream in our foaling barn.”

Today, the day after Easter at 1;25 in the morning the beeper went off and I called Armando and said Sterling Storm is starting to push.  We got to the barn and after a few minutes we were concerned because progress was too slow.  Finally Armando, who has been an integral part of Little America for over thirty years reached in to determine what the hold up was.  He actually said he was afraid that the baby might already be dead.  He felt one hoof, but found that the other front leg and head were way down in the bottom and very difficult to reach, but after a few minutes it took both of us, with a light cord around one leg and a hook around the other leg holding the head up pulling with all our strength to get the little colt out.  He rubbed and lightl pounded on him and he started breathing.  Alive with apparently no damage.  In a few minutes the new mom, finally turned to the baby and started nuzzling him and he responded.

But that is just part of the story.  The real “pedigree nerd” part is that yesterday was Easter Sunday, and we had two colts that day.  One of them belonged to our Grandson, Grayson Taylor.  It was the mare that was born the day after HE was born.  I had given it to Grayson, as my dad had given me a Shetland Pony when I was born.  So, YESTERDAY Little America’s D S Grayson’s Girl had an Appaloosa colt, Easter Acropolis.  Grayson was on vacation with his family in Greece and were going to the Acropolis in Athens.

Ironically, the day before, on Easter Eve, a daughter, Scarlet Sunrise, of Grayson’s original mare had, YES, an Appaloosa colt, Apollo Star Wars.  What a coincidence.  A daughter one day and the mother, the next day.  But it gets even better, in case there is another “Pedigree Nerd” in the world.  Tonight an hour and a half AFTER Easter Sunday, the mare that just had her foal is the daughter of Grayson’s daughter named Little America’s SW Scarlet Storm.  Her colt born only an hour or ago, is the FOURTH GENERATION of the line in the same barn on three consecutive days.  I wonder if there is a Guinness Record for such a thing.  So if this was at the racetrack, I guess Grayson would have won the Trifecta.  Three generations of his mares had three Appaloosa colts.

People have asked me to write a book for years and if I do, this will certainly be a part of it!!!

Well, if you made it all the way to here, here is the details on the FOURTH GENERATION.   This gorgeous headed, tiny boy is a clone of his mother with a beautiful matching strieak face.  But, he has te addition of obvious App coloration starting on his rump.  His sire is a leopard Appaloosa that is only 27.75″ tall and is a grandson of Winner’s Circle’s True Colors who goes back to our favorite, Orion-Light Van’t Huttenest.

His dam is amazingly a half sister to the two colts that her mother and grandmother had in the past two days to add even more intrigue to this tale.

He carries appaloosa on both sides of his pedigree with his dam having such appaloosa as Little America’s My Oh My, Lazy H Desert Storm, Little America’s Kickapoo Joy Boy, Little America’s Tex Hallelujah, Little Americas Sessquicentennial Tex, Xenon-Light Van’t Huttenest and Orion-Light Van’t Huttenest!  She even goes back to our original mare of our “private collection”, Crescent’s Melodee!