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1996 AQHA & APHA Registered
APHA Breeding Stock Superior
Halter and APHA Breeding Stock
Champion Perlino Stallion.
1999 APHA (BS) Honor Roll #1!
15:3 1/2 Hands
Homozygous for Black (EE)
Homozygous Agouti
Heterozygous Dun
Negative for Lethal White,
EVA Negative (tested in 2007)
HYPP N/N
Introductory 2008 Fee: $500
(Booking included) LFG
Quality Shipped Semen and AI
Available (tested in 2007)
Will not sire a red or non-dilute
foal! Guaranteed buckskin or
Dunskin out of black, bay or
sorrel mares.

Starbuck is the first perlino officially recognized by APHA. He is also the first Breeding Stock stallion to
ever earn an APHA Championship, and the first one to earn a Superior in any event. Starbuck's
combination of superb conformation, show stopping presence, and absolutely breathtaking
pearlescent cream and gold color can take your breath away! The judges must agree: 51 out of 56
placed him first in Halter, and Starbuck is UNDEFEATED in performance classes, earning Circuit
Championships in Working Hunter, Hunter Hack, Hunter Under Saddle, and Western Pleasure.

We are looking forward to a great year of breeding in 2008, so we have made sure that Starbuck is
nominated to the AQHA incentive fund, APHA Breeders Trust, and to several futurities. When you breed
your registered AQHA mare to Starbuck, your foal will be eligible for the following registries: AQHA,
APHA, ABRA, IBHA...and more! There are only a handful quality stallions could offer you that many
venues, and he is the only one that can put a buckskin / dunskin color on any non-dilute/non-grey
mare! We want to see his babies go out and succeed!

Personally, I LOVE this horse! He has a FANTASTIC disposition, very kind and gentle. After searching
long and hard for a horse with the conformation, movement and color genetics, we chose him with the
hope that he would be all that we were looking for. He is even more than we expected, and he has
won my heart with his personable, friendly and willing disposition. We have selected an incredible
group of mares to breed him to in 2008 in hopes that he can impress everyone with the quality show
horses we believe he can produce! This will be the only year he stands at this low of a fee, and we will
offer future breed-back incentives to those owners who book in 2008, our way of saying Thank YOU for
getting in on the ground floor of this incredible breeding opportunity!

Starbuck is a very rare perlino, because he can be thought of as a
homozygous buckskin. He has tested Red Factor EE at UC Davis
(he can not sire red based foals, ie palomino), and he is also
homozygous for the bay color (agouti gene) so he can not sire a
smokey black. Starbuck's sire is a registered dun, and since
Starbuck has a gold dorsal stripe, Starbuck also carries the dun
gene. On sorrel, bay and black mares you can only get a variation
of buckskin or dunskin foal.

Starbuck offers an opportunity to guarantee the popular buckskin
color out of your mare, in addition to current bloodlines and
beautiful conformation and temperament. When breeding to
Starbuck, your foal's exact shade of buckskin will also depend on
the color of your mare. Chestnut and light, clear coated bay mares
would be ideal to produce a light buckskin foal with good contrast
between body color and black points. A dark bay/brown or black
mare could also produce a much darker buckskin, regardless the
shade it will genetically be a buckskin. Since Starbuck has a
dorsal stripe, some foals will also have a dorsal stripe (dunskin).

The only exceptions to a buckskin foal would be if your mare is
grey, or carries a dilute gene. If you have a dilute mare, you have a
50% chance of a perlino, and if your mare is grey there is a 50%
chance your foal will be born buckskin and turn grey.