Foundation Appaloosa Semen Available 2024 (LP/LP PATN1/PATN1) – ALL MARES
MERRY CHRISTMAS
For 2024 ONLY, we will be offering our Stallion, DFR Patahas Redheart (Blu) frozen semen to ALL mares in the UK & Europe.
Blu is a 15.2h, smoky black (EE aa CRcr) Foundation Appaloosa, homozygous for the Leopard Complex gene (LP/LP) and the Pattern gene (PATN1/PATN1).
Certified negative for Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy (PSSM1), Hereditary Equine Regional Dermal Asthenia (HERDA), Glycogen Branching Enzyme Deficiency (GBED), Equine Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis Disease (HYPP), Malignant Hyperthermia (MH), Grey gene and Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC).
A very kind stallion who we have brought on very slowly, he’s successfully competed in the ring (in hand & under saddle) and was lightly introduced to show jumping earlier this year.
He has contributed his share of the genes to some awesome Appaloosa foals here in the UK & Europe.
His details are HERE.
Please email us for a contract and a copy of his Semen Assessment if you are interested – HERE.
ALL mares must be certified 5 panel negative, NO grey mares, NO LP/LP mares and NO inbreeding or linebreeding (see pedigree).
ALL mares will be included on his Stallion Report 2024 with ApHC UK, BApS & ApHC as standard.
Payment of £500 must be received (1 dose (6 straws)) before semen will be released from Stallion AI.
Limited to the first 20 doses being ordered.
A reminder of the quality Blu has produced:
The Redheart Mares are carrying the 2023 Redheart Foals.
Our four broodmares are in for the winter…
Talisman’s Redheart (Ghost) is confirmed in foal to Hevan’s EV Catorrius (Reus).
We store our stallion’s semen mainly as a backup, we are very realistic knowing anything can happen to horses within a blink of an eye.
It is an expensive way to breed and not always successful but using Hevans EV Catorrius frozen semen with Ghost will hopefully give us our Reus filly, one day!
Admitted to Three Counties Equine Hospital this year with her 2022 foal at foot she was as inseminated under the expert eye of Vicky Savage – BVSc MSc CertAVP DipECEIM MRCVS European Specialist in Equine Internal Medicine.
Ghosts first pregnancy scan was positive but showed a double ovulation had occurred, meaning she had twins, one embryo at 16mm and the other at 19mm. It’s not rare for a mare to double ovulated (we wouldn’t intentionally risk any mare to carry twins) but what is rare is she caught again 3 days after insemination. Frozen semen usually will only remain viable inside the mare for 6-12 (or perhaps even 18) hours.
Vicky “pinched” the smaller embryo and Ghost was re-scanned to ensure the embryo was still there, implanted into the uterus and developing, 
at 34 days another scan ensured a heartbeat was seen. 
We are delighted Ghost has been confirmed with a healthy single pregnancy and carries the full sibling to Really.
We REALLY can’t wait to meet this foal!
Redheart Pascallius (Evee) crossed with DFR Patahas Redheart (Blu) can only produce black or smoky black foals, she is confirmed in foal for 2023.
We are very much looking forward to meeting the UK’s next GAP 6 foal.
Redheart Revelation 
Redheart Ricochet
Redheart Remembrance
Evee x Blu 2023 (Heartbeat Scan)
Peyres Catori Cat (Catori) is confirmed in foal to DFR Patahas Redheart for 2023.
Breeding Appaloosa’s is like choose a Random Revel, you just don’t know what you are going to get (although I can confidently say I can pick out the chocolate buttons and Malteser’s but struggle with the orange cream, coffee cream, caramel and chocolate raisins).
This mare exceeds our expectations every delivery by what she produces, she is our least Foundation mare but her “get” will produce Foundation Appaloosa’s registered with FAHR if crossed to the right FAHR mare/stallion.
One of the most charismatic equines I have ever had the pleasure of owning.
Hevans EV Catorrius
Redheart Cateaster
Redheart Regal
Redheart Regent
Redheart Relentless
Redheart Raven
Redheart Raphiele
Catori x Blu 2023
Caricks Redheart (Myka) is confirmed in foal to DRF Patahas Redheart (Blu) for 2023.
The Appaloosa is a Breed not a colour and the non-Characteristic (lp/lp) horses like our Caricks Redheart is an absolute blessing for producing 100% characteristic Appaloosa foals (LP/lp) when mated with our homozygous (LP/LP) stallion Blu.
Here is Myka with her three foals by Blu, she can only produce spotted bay or buckskin foals.
We look forward to the safe arrival of her fourth full sibling in 2023.
Redheart Reflection 
Redheart River Run
Redheart Romance
2023 Myka x Blu
Everything crossed for the foal’s safe arrival – The Class of 2023.
The Class of 2021 – Best memories!
The Class of 2021 – Best memories!
The Class of 2021 – The Window of opportunity…
The Class 2021 – THE FIRST 48 HOURS
In conjunction with Farm & Stable Supplies for supporting the Appaloosa Horse Club (ApHC) UK 2021 Photo Competition. Thank you 🙂
Can you imagine being born within 4 walls and then the door is opened, a new environment awaits you but also the realisation of what your legs are for…
Our post foaling check list is quite extensive, but only then can we relax and enjoy our foals knowing we have done our best to ensure their well-being.
Here are some clips from The Class of 2021, showing their characters within in the first 48hrs of life outside the stable.
The Class of 2021 – STAGE 3 – Passing The Placenta
In conjunction with Farm & Stable Supplies for supporting the Appaloosa Horse Club (ApHC) UK 2021 Photo Competition. Thank you 🙂
STAGE 3 of foaling is known as delivery of the placenta. The mare’s uterus continues to contract after foaling which causes the placenta to be expelled BUT so much more happens before the placenta is expelled.
So, the foals are safely out, either our mares get up or our foals crawl to their dam’s head but either way the umbilical cord breaks and the foals begin their first mission, to get to their feet. Their second mission is to find the milk bar, both missions are challenging, we only intervene if required to do so.
Our mares’ bond with their foals by licking, nuzzling, and nickering to them, it is wonderful to watch.
During the processes of the foals’ natural instincts, to stand and feed, the mare’s body is constantly experiencing the pain of contractions, the ultimate result we wait for is a placenta that is completely intact.
Once we are satisfied the foal has properly latched on and nursed, the foal has urinated and passed the meconium and most of all the placenta is intact, only then do we leave them, knowing we have done everything possible to ensure a great start to their new life.
The Class 2021 – STAGE 2 FOALING
In conjunction with Farm & Stable Supplies for supporting the Appaloosa Horse Club (ApHC) UK 2021 Photo Competition. Thank you 🙂
As the contraction persist, we witness the bulge of the white fluid-filled amniotic sac from the vulva followed by every breeder’s delight, two front feet and a nose. We wait and watch and talk to our mares, we know our mares well and they need to know I am there.
As the contraction persist, the feet and nose pop in and out of their vulvas, it is common for a mare to get up and back down as she repositions her foal for ease of delivery. The head and front feet are now out… Then, a few hard pushes that result in the shoulders passing through the birth canal and eventually the foal is out!
Telling them how well they have done and keeping everything calm, they whinny and look at their new-born and stay lying down which is beneficial for the foal to receive as much blood as possible to pass through the umbilical cord.
Right or wrong, we always pull out the back feet out, we know too many stories of foals trying to crawl whilst the feet are inside the mare whilst she is led down, the result can be detrimental to the mare, so we take no risks.
Whilst the foal is out, we gently clear the nasal passage of any fluid, imprint them before the mares get up or the foal crawl to the mares head and allow the bonding process to begin.
Either the mare will stay down, and the foal will start to crawl towards her, or the mare will get up and their first meet is just beautiful. This is their first bond, all our mares are great mothers, they are kind and do their foals well, we leave them bond.