Arrow Rock Spanish Mustangs
& American Sorraia Mustangs
Preserving the horse from yesterday...
For the people of tomorrow
Jolie Alongi
HC 65 BOX 1480
Hominy, OK 74035
918-885-6154
Email
Spanish LP Project
I am only concerned with certain pedigrees. I know Chief Pushmataha was registered with an Appaloosa horse registry &
that he was also bred to mares of other breeds. Outside breeding was accepted with that registry...not the SSMA or the
SMR. It would be simple to find homozygous horses of another breed, to get the genes that I need for this project.
That's the easy way...& it would totally defeat my purpose.
My goal is to PRESERVE the Spanish Mustang, as well as, bring out the leopard & large blankets, hiding within the
registered Spanish Mustang....I believe that this project is important enough, to at least, try to reach that goal.

We are building a band of carefully selected LP mares, to insure that this project is a success.. I hope to see…in my
lifetime…a stable gene pool of nose to toes leopards & large spotted blanket horses…as well as, fewspots & snowcaps to
ensure that we continue to see those beautiful spotted Spanish Mustangs that were running on the prairies of the past



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Jolie Alongi
HC 65 BOX 1480
Hominy, OK 74035
918-885-6154
Email
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THE HEART OF THE APPALOOSA
By Fred Small

From the land of shooting waters
to the peaks of the Coeur d’Alene,
Thimbleberries in the forest,
elk grazing on the plain,
The People of the Coyote made
their camp along the streams
Of the green Wallowa Valley
when fences had no name.
And they bred a strain of horses,
the treasure of the tribe,
Who could toe-dance on a ridge
or gallop up a mountainside,
Who could haul the hunter’s burden,
turn a buffalo stampede --
The horse that wore the spotted coat
was born with matchless speed.

CHORUS: Thunder Rolling in the Mountains,
Lead the people across the Great Divide.
There’s blood on the snow in the hills of Idaho,
But the heart of the Appaloosa never died.
In the winter came the crowned ones
near frozen in the cold,
Bringing firearms and spyglasses
and a book that saves the soul.
The people gave them welcome,
nursed them till their strength returned,
And studied the talking paper,
its mysteries to learn.
In the shadow of the mission
sprang up farms and squatter towns.
The plain was lined with fences.
The plow blade split the ground.
In the shallows of the Clearwater,
gold glittered in the pan,
And the word would come from Washington:
remove the Indian.

(Chorus)
The chief spoke to the People
in his anger and his pain:
“I am no more Chief Joseph.
Rolling Thunder is my name.
They condemn us to a wasteland
of barren soil and stone.
We shall fight them if we must,
but we will find another home.”
They fled into the Bitterroot,
an army at their heels.
They fought at White Bird Canyon.
They fought at Misery Hill,
Till the colonel saw his strategy
and sent the order down,
To kill the Appaloosa wherever it be found.

(Chorus)
Twelve hundred miles retreating,
three times over the Divide,
The horse their only safety, their only ally.
Three thousand Appaloosas
perished with the tribe,
The people and the horses
dying side by side.
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains said,
“My heart is sick and sad.
Our children now are freezing.
The old chiefs are dead.
The hunger takes our spirit.
Our wounds are deep and sore.
From where the sun now stands,
I shall fight no more.”

(Chorus)
They were sent to Oklahoma.
Malaria ran rife,
But more died of broken hearts
far from the land that gave them life.
And the man once called Joseph
at death was heard to say,
“We have given up our horses.
They have gone away.”
But sometimes without warning
from a dull domestic herd,
A spotted horse of spirit
wondrous will emerge.
Strong it is, and fearless,
and nimble on a hill.
Listening for thunder,
the Appaloosa’s living still.
It's well documented that the LP
Complex, or appy genes, arrived
with the conquistador's horses.
Over the years, we have almost
lost these genes. Registered
Spanish Mustangs haven't seen a
nose to toes leopard since the
fifties. I'm still not sure if a
photo of that horse, Mexican
Joe, even exists.  He had sons
& daughters who produced lots
of  LP horses but the ones that
might have made a real
difference in a LP breeding
program, were either bred to
horses with no traits, or gelded.
In my travels through pedigrees
& the few pictures available, I
have come to believe that the
Mexican Joe line & some horses
in the Chief Pushmataha line,
carry the PATN gene that
breeders need, to bring back
that large blanket or leopard.
Ghost Horse
Crazy Legs   x Rimfire SMR 3084
The first recognized, near, fewspot,
Registered Spanish Mustang
Crazy Legs
SMR 3480
Troublshoote SSMA 1459r SMR 2187 X Wyoming Moon SMR 1049
Summer 2005
Caballo de Destino
Snowcap mismark
Storm Chaser
SSMA 2656  SMR 3549
Chato's Shadow SSMA 1459 SMR 1531
Rimfire SMR 3084
Arrow Rock
Gun Runner
SMR 2943
Troubleshooter SMR 2187
Something Special SMR 1736
Caballo de Destino
Troubleshooter  
SSMA 1459  SMR 2187
Choctaw Sundance SMR 1282 x
Chocolate SMR 1617

Caballo de Destino
High Stepper
2005
Troubleshooter  SSMA SMR 2187
Yellow Ribbon SMR 3323
Caballo de Destino
Cherokee Bill II  SSMA 1528
X The Race Mare  SSMA 2191
LP Project Mares At Arrow Rock
Star Shadow-chestnut snowflake
Little Feat-dun snowflake
Iron Maiden-dun snowflake
Spitfire-Bay snowflake
Star Shadow
SSMA 2547

Cherokee Bill II
SSMA 1528
Car Maid SSMA 1529

Star Shadow is
Absaroka War Pony's dam.

Snowflake
Iron Maiden
SSMA 2219
Cherokee Bill II
SSMA 1528
Car Maid SSMA 1529

Snowflake
Little Feat
SSMA 2220
Cherokee Bill II 1528
Huasteca Penny SSMA 1492

Snowflake
Spitfire
Troubleshooter SMR 2187
Wyoming Moon SMR 1049

Dave Reynolds  graciously
offered me
the chance to co-own
Spitfire.I am pretty, darn
thrilled that she is part of
this project.
Spitfire is a full
sister to Crazy Legs .

Snowflake
A big Thank You to
Jerry & Peggy Brietzke of
Sacred Ground Spanish Mustangs
For allowing Iron Maiden & Little Feat
To participate in this project.
Reba-apricot dun snowflake
Wampum

Injun Joe SMR 3130  
SSMA 2567
Pushmataha Pearl
SSMA 2571 HOA1305

Wampum was born with
mottled skin, white sclera &
white feet on black legs.
They are striped now.
Reba

To-Bulls SSMA 2326
Tiak Nia SSMA 1785

Reba  inherited one
copy of LP from her sire.

Snowflake
Tah Tay Sha "Cowgirl"

Mexican Joe II SSMA 936
Huasteca Penny SSMA 1492

Cowgirl's pedigree is full
of appys. Though she didn't
inherit LP,
I'm hoping she carries a
PATN gene that she can
pass on to her foals.
Luna Girl
SSMA 2551

Calisaya SSMA 186
SMR 611
Honey Z Dun SSMA 946

Luna Girl is my
personal riding horse.
She's included just
because I love her.
Absaroka War Pony giving me a kiss
All of these mares, except Luna Girl & Cowgirl
show at least three LP traits.

They come from blanket producing mares or studs.