RFF Starbuck
1996 Perlino AQHA/APHA
Sire: Mr Starbucks Beau
Dam: Southern Sen
Homozygous for Black (EE) . Homozygous Agouti
Heterozygous Dun. OLWS Negative

EVA & CEM Tested & NEGATIVE

15.3 ½ Hands - HYPP N/N

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Nominated To the  Empire State Paint Horse Club, SSA and BFPF Futurities

Live Color Foal Guarantee - Will not sire a red or non-dilute foal! Guaranteed buckskin or
Dunskin out of black, bay or sorrel mares!

RFF Starbuck is a registered AQHA and APHA Breeding Stock Perlino Stallion. Starbuck was shown in Breeding Stock Classes in APHA and earned a Superior in Halter and his APHA Breeding Stock Championship as a 4 year old. In 1999 Starbuck was the #1 Honor Roll in Breeding Stock halter.

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 spectactular 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 was UNDEFEATED in performance classes, earning Circuit Championships in Working Hunter, Hunter Hack, Hunter Under Saddle, and Western Pleasure.

As a very rare form of perlino, 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 excellent bloodlines, 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.

Starbuck is nominated to the AQHA Incentive Fund, APHA Breeders Trust and to several futurities. When you breed your registered AQHA or TB mare to RFF Starbuck, your foal will be eligible for the following registries: AQHA, APHA, ABRA, IBHA, PtHA.

Starbuck was inspected and approved by the American Warmblood Registry and registered with the Sport Horses With Color Registry as well. His incredible athleticism makes him a perfect cross on TB or warmblood mares for dressage, hunter, jumper or sport horse prospects.

With Starbuck's unique color genetics he is also an excellent cross on Arabian mares to produce the popular ½ Arabian buckskin foals. His correct conformation and athletic ability will produce foals which will excel in halter as well as performance classes.

The unique blend of AQHA foundation breeding combined with some of today's more popular bloodlines in Starbuck's pedigree make him an excellent cross on modern show bloodlines to produce halter horses who can also ride.  Starbuck's pedigree includes 10 AQHA Champions or AQHA Champion producers in the first 4 generations of his pedigree Questions about your foals possible color? Consult the color calculator at the Animal Genetics  website (http://www.animalgenetics.us/CCalculator1.asp.) Under sire enter stallion color as Perlino Dun, Homozygous Black (EE) Homozygous Agouti, and Heterozygous Dun. Enter what you know about your mare, and it will tell you the probability of each possible outcome!

To learn more about Perlinos read Positively Perlino from the APHA archives at: http://www.painthorsejournal.com/archives/pdfs/Perlino0201http://www.painthorsejournal.com/archives/pdfs/Perlino0201.pdf