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Caballos De Destino CaballosA Vanishing de DestinoBreed November, 2012 “All men dream, but not equally. by Karen Parker, Photographer and Designer www.rockmultimediasolutions.com Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of the minds, wake in This is a story that is as much about two humble Spanish Mustang breeders and pioneers as it is about the day to find that it was vanity; Caballos de Destino. This is a fitting name for a ranch in the Black Hills of South Dakota that has been raising but the dreamers of the day are and preserving “horses of destiny” since the late 1980s. Sharron Scheikofsky and Dave Reynolds have owned dangerous men, for they may act on and bred over 250 Spanish Mustangs to date. Today, Sharron their dreams with open eyes, is one of the few Sorraia-type Spanish Mustang breeders in the to make them possible.” country and Dave’s accidental contributions to appaloosa Leopard Complex (LP) studies scores a “spot” light in his career. —T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) by Karen Parker - All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2012 1 Apache Chief, Cochise Bronze bust by Betty Butts and Image Courtesy of André Kozimor from Wikipedia Commons Images below Courtesy of Western Horseman Photo by Karen Parker This chronicle of “true grit” could carry an Indian swiftly and started with the October, 1968 sure-footedly across the plains. issue of Western Horseman Now he was reading they hadn’t magazine about Medicine Hat all vanished. Cochise was a grulla horses and Spanish Mustangs. stallion foaled in 1952, sired by Dave and Sharron didn’t know SMR #1 Buckshot, a founding each other then, but they stallion of the Spanish Mustang had both admired a striking Registry (SMR). One can envision photograph of a Spanish Cochise, the Apache Chief, Mustang named Cochise in this protecting his people from now historical magazine. Dave, the back of a horse with the having been told as a kid that the same name. This original mustang was dead and impression of gone, still dreamed of a horse the ideal Spanish sound in wind and limb that Mustang stuck with Dave and Sharron but it would be several years before dreams would be realized. Cochise SMR #33 - 1952 Grulla Stallion (Buckshot SMR #1 x Queenie SMR #8) Image Courtesy of Josie Brislawn by Karen Parker - All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2012 2 History of the Spanish Mustang The history of the Spanish their ruthless campaigns against a switch and “a lower grade” of Mustang starts with the Spanish the natives in the well-populated horse reached Hispañiola in late and Portuguese horses of Americas. November of 1493. But instead the Iberian Peninsula, the The true Spanish Mustang of the anticipated drawbacks, same horses thought to have characterized by the SMR is a the unscrupulous substitution influenced the African Barb direct descendant of the Spanish proved most advantageous as (Berber) horse from the Barbary horses brought to the New these tough horses were much Coast of North Africa in historic World by Spanish Explorers and more capable of enduring the times. The circulation of horses Conquistadors. Columbus, on hardships ahead. between Iberia and North Africa, and neighboring areas, was active order of the Spanish throne, Thereafter, each ship headed for for millennia with the sands of commenced bringing the first the New World, carried breeding time culminating in a superior Spanish horses to the New World animals of choice Spanish stock. horse. Following 700 years of on his second voyage. Along Breeding farms were set up in conflict in Spain by the Moorish with some of the typical horses the Caribbean and subsequently invaders from North Africa, the from Spain, historians believe in Mexico. Breeding farms such combined armies of Castile and it was the tamed descendants as the one operated in Sonora, Aragon conquered the last of the of the wild horse of Iberia, Mexico by Padre Eusebio Moors at Granada in 1492. The including the “marismeño” Francisco Kino, a Jesuit priest, Spanish soldiers finally freed by now known as the Sorraia, produced stock including many the victory were ready for the that Christopher Columbus horses, which were placed with next great task, the conquest of first brought to the Caribbean each group of Christianized the New World, discovered that Islands. Columbus’ own writings Indians as Kino expanded his year by Christopher Columbus. state that he intended for only efforts further and further north. Their next successes were the finest Andalusian stock He turned 20 cattle into 70,000 on accomplished from the backs of the time to accompany his expeditions, and we can’t even of their noble steeds resilient him on his second voyage, guess at how many thousands enough to cross ocean and desert however, just before setting of horses he spread throughout allowing the Spaniards to pursue sail, fraudulent dealers pulled the Americas. Over the years by Karen Parker - All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2012 3 horses escaped, were lost or stolen, and many became feral roaming all over the American west. Environmental conditions certainly played a role in the development of these horses over the many generations in a feral state. They developed according to their environment with Nature culling out those less suited to the locale. The Spanish horse left a legacy in its tough, beautiful, hardy descendants that endures to this day. A complete description of the SMR Spanish Mustang breed can be found on their web site. But in short and directly from the SMR breed standards, “the Spanish Mustang is a smooth muscled Emmett Brislawn with Buckshot SMR #1 (Monty x Bally SMR #35) horse with a short back, rounded Image Courtesy of Josie Brislawn rump, and low tail set. The girth is deep, with a laid back shoulder and fairly pronounced withers. Consistency in type is important and the Spanish Mustang should be immediately discernible upon sight by anyone familiar with the breed. The typical head has a flat or convex profile. When viewed from the front, the forehead is broad and will give the impression of an inverted triangle. The throat latch is well defined and has plenty of room for air passageways. Viewed from the side, the hindquarters appear smooth and display strength and roundness, without excessive muscle definition. All colors are present in the SMR Spanish Mustang as well as all appaloosa and paint patterns, excluding tobiano. Many horses exhibit primitive markings.” Emmett Brislawn riding Chief Pushmataha SMR #47 (Sire: Sorrel Choctaw from Oklahoma x Dam: Soapy Blue/White Oklahoma Choctaw) Image Courtesy of Josie Brislawn by Karen Parker - All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2012 4 The Appaloosa Color Patterns vs. the Breed Spotted horses have been and mottled known to man for twenty skin. All horses thousand years or more with with at least a substantial pictorial record one copy of across many cultures. The the LP gene “Heavenly Horses” of Ferghana show leopard (also known as the “blood- characteristics, sweating horses” by the and that LP Chinese) are believed to have acts together included some spotted horses with other possibly explaining the “blood- patterning sweating” term used just like genes (PATN). “flea-bitten” describes certain The LP patterns gray horses.1 This is just one are present in example of the spotted horse’s breeds from long history in numerous Asia to Western Crazy Legs SMR #3480 (Troubleshooter x Wyoming Moon) Black Snowcap appaloosa Stallion breeds. The Appaloosa breed in Europe, and they Image by Karen Parker the U.S. should not be confused are believed with appaloosa-colored Spanish to be due to a Mustangs. very ancient Appaloosa colors have several mutation.” In short, LP is the gene pattern variations (blanket or that makes the spotted genes snowcap, mottled, snowflake, available and is separate from marble or varnish roan, etc.). It but works with the white PATN 2 is the unique group of spotting expressions. Read the article in patterns, collectively called the Proceedings of the National the “leopard complex,” (or Academy of Sciences “Genotypes LP for leopard pattern) that of predomestic horses match has historical significance. phenotypes painted in Paleolithic Wikipedia® gives us a great works of cave art” by M. Pruvost definition of the LP color et al. to learn more. pattern, edited for brevity: “The leopard complex is a Pech Merle Ancient Cave Painting group of genetically-related Image Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons coat patterns in horses. These patterns range from progressive increases in interspersed white hair similar to graying or roan to distinctive, Dalmatian-like leopard spots on a white coat. Anno 1740 by Ridinger Secondary characteristics Spotted Horse in the Emperor’s Stable in Vienna associated with the leopard Image Courtesy of Francis Haines complex include a white sclera from Wikipedia Commons around the eye, striped hooves, by Karen Parker - All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2012 5 Arrow Rock Spanish Mustangs Over the years, we have almost is a stunning grulla with a lost LP horses within foundation large spotted blanket with Spanish Mustangs. We haven’t extreme lightning bolt seen a nose to toes leopard coloring on his legs. Spanish Mustang since the 1950s. Storm Chaser came from The Mexican Joe line and some Caballos de Destino and horses in the Chief Pushmataha Tejas Lightning Storm (Storm Chaser x Tejas Isa Tai) was out of Rimfire, sired by Grulla LP Colt line carry the gene that breeders Chato’s Shadow—Cochise Image Courtesy of Jolie Alongi need to bring back more Spanish lives on and on!!. Dave also Mustangs with the complete LP bred Rimfire to Crazy Legs 2 coloring. Jolie Alongi of Arrow and the result was Ghost Rock Spanish Mustangs in Hominy, Horse, a mostly white (few Oklahoma is the front runner on spot) LP stallion.
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