vixen of doom wrote:
And look at them. Look at the Phenotype of those horses.
image This is a foundation appaloosa. If I couldn't see the spots on the neck and mottled skin on the nose, I would think it was a QH. My point is that it doesn't necessarily take a crossing to get that type conformation.

I'm going to assume you couldn't find anything about them that separates them from being Quarter Horses (ignoring color)?

I don't have to because it isn't just that your looking at a spotted quarterhorse - you're looking at an appaloosa that has good conformation.

Good conformation is good conformation.....period - no matter the discipline. If you like this type of app...
image more power to you and you have every right to go out and by one. And which type app do you suppose ends up being abandoned or sent off to slaughter because there is no market for them?? I think your opinion of bettering the breed and mine are different. If I owned this little frappy foundation app mare, by gosh you bet I'd cross her with something else.