Rocking Chair Sun Dance

FAHR %

Generations of Appaloosa Parentage

0

0 of 5 consecutive generations needed — not yet GAP

Pedigree

Sire

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Dam

🐴Rocking Chair Porter

Recorded Foals (4)

• 🐴Swift Sunlight(1960)Sire: Black Jack
• 🐴Sun Dance Pepperoni(1959)Sire: King Pepper
• 🐴Sunspot Revel(1957)Sire: Revel Junior
• 🐴Gipsey(1948)Sire: Kiowa Brave

Notes

Sire (per source): Ruby's Sun Dance* *Note: In a letter to George Hatley of the ApHC, dated December 26, 1959, from Ralph Cannon Jr, then living in Golden, Colordo, the following statement is given: "The dam of #587 was Rocking Chair Porter #574 (daughter of Sundance 500). #574 was already in foal when she was sold by David Ruby, Louisville, Colorado, to E.P. Deahl, La Junta, Colorado, in fall 1947. At that time Ruby had two Appaloosa stallions: an old stallion named Fox (#10 in the Colorado Ranger Horse Association registry), and a young 2-year-old son of #574. When Deahl registered #574 and her filly Sundance #587, he gave the filly's sire as Ruby's Sun Dance. Deahl died some years before we bought Rocking Chair Sun Dance #587, but I have talked with Ruby on several occasions about the history of these horses. He is very positive about the following information: The Ruby family never had a stallion named Ruby's Sun Dance. Deahl presumably was referring to the young leopard stallion (grandson of Sundance 500) who was later registered as Sundance II #778 (in 1949) to sell in the ApHC Appaloosa sale at Lewiston (to H.S. Raty, Dupuyer, Montana). Ruby says there is no doubt that the sire of Rocking Chair Sun Dance #587 was Fox, that Fox bred a group of Ruby mares in the summer of 1947 when a pasture fence went down, that the Porter mare (called Sally) was one of those he bred at that time, and that Sally and some of the other mares were then sold to Deahl that fall." Other registered Appaloosas shown to be sired by Ruby's Sun Dance are Rocking Chair David F585 and Rocking Chair Round Up F586. Both were foaled in 1948, and shown to be bred by E.P. Deahl. The stallion Sundance II F-778 [aka Ruby's Sun Dance], according to the ApHC Stud Book was a bay leopard, was foaled 4-16-1945. His sire is listed as "unknown"; his dam as Rocking Chair Sally. Her breeder was listed as Guy Porter, Brush, Colorado. His owner was listed as Horace S. Raty, Dupuyer, Montana. Rocking Chair Sally -NR- App, is the same horse as "bay Porter mare" and "Sally". "Bay Porter mare" was the name used by Ralph Cannon in his Sunspot Revel F-1904 extended pedigrees. I have also seen Rocking Chair Porter's dam listed as "unknown" in some pedigrees, as the ApHC Stud Book lists it that way. ~Sherry Byrd Source: appaloosaterritory.com Foundation registry, foundation501.html

Color Genetics

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Health Genetics

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