Birthdate: May 7, 1999
Registrations: IPAA F4-2; ApHC 585135; ICAA F3-1976; FAHR 602; CRHA 6503P; SBC 1408B; DCROA APBST0079
Color and Pattern: Sunny is a bay dun fewspot stallion (homozygous for leopard complex, heterozygous for leopard pattern - LP/LP, PATN-1/patn-1). He is DNA tested heterozygous black/extension and homozygous bay/agouti (E/e, A/A) and is progeny proven to be dun (has a dun sire also). He has proven himself to be a 100% color/characteristic producer, not just by his coat pattern but by his progeny.
Gait: Sunny is easy gaited, usually performing a running walk and sometimes a fox trot in addition to the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop. A large number of his foals have inherited his easy gaits.
Personality: He is very gentle and sweet, even a bit shy with strangers. Our young children love to help with Sunny - he even lowers his head to let them take off his fly mask - and also to go for pony rides on Sunny in the pasture, down the road, and all around the farm. He is good in a variety of herd groupings - he is kept with the expecting mares until one foals and then he is moved to a neighboring pasture to avoid breeding on a foal heat, he is good while pasturing with the mares he is breeding, and he has lived off and on over the years with stallions and geldings - one year we even took him out of the pasture he was sharing with another young stallion, bred him to Lady for an hour, then returned him to his stallion pasturemate and repeated the next day with absolutely no change in his friendship with the other stallion!
Activities: Due to our family and time constraints, Sunny has mainly been used for pony rides for our young children. We also do some exercise and work with him on a longe line, with which he does very nicely. This year we're hoping to refresh his adult riding skills as well as continue to use him as a therapy "pony" horse for our son who has Asperger's Syndrome (autism), plus Sunny will be in an exercise regime to prepare for live inspections this fall. Sunny's smooth gaits, intelligence, and partner personality make him an ideal choice for both adult riding and therapy riding.
Breeders and Progeny: Sunny was bred by Kyle and Sue Magnuson at 2KS NorthStar in Garvin, MN; we have photos of Sunny's past foals. Of his past 18 foals, he has sired 9 colts and 9 fillies, with all patterns represented and with the colors being bays, seal browns/dark bays, bay duns, chestnuts, and red dun. Sunny obviously is capable of siring big, bold color. Also see the brag pages for some of Sunny's offspring and check out the huge variety of things they are doing.
Pedigree: His pedigree includes Ferras (11x), Mansfield's Comanche (8x), Starbuck Leopard (7x), Morgan's Leopard (3x), Navajo's Candy (2x), Sundance (2x), Simcoe's Sarcee, Simcoe's Chinook, Spotted Eagle, Revel Jr., Painter's Marvel, Red Eagle, Bambi E, High Spot, Bright Eyes Brother, Buttons B, Double Six Domino, Cooterville Norrell's Little Red, and Toby I.
Video: We are planning on embedding new videos of Sunny as we can good video in the coming months. Keep checking!
Breeding:
$550 live cover stud fee with a variety of discounts, as applicable
$850 shipped semen fee with the same discounts available (EVA negative) (includes collection fee, shipping, and disposable container)
$100 nonrefundable booking fee due upon signing of breeding contractmare care -- $3 per day after the first 7 days; extras such as exercise and grain negotiable; pasture board only
requirements for live cover breeding:
negative Cogginsnegative uterine culture if the mare has not had a foal recentlyrabies, tetanus, and West Nile Virus vaccinations (EEE and WEE recommended)live colored foal guarantee for first 96 hours
We offer cooled shipped semen for the U.S. and Canada. Please contact us for more information or to
contract a collection. If you are interested in an overseas shipment, contact us and we may be able to arrange collection at another facility, although the cost will be higher than our standard shipped semen costs.
Please check our contracts page to see exactly what we offer. Every contract is tailored to the individual.
We are open to trades for stud fees.
We do have the right to refuse breeding to a mare we do not believe to be a good match to Sunny.
***We now have a progeny report available that gives information on mares to whom Sunny has been bred with photos of mares and foals to help in understanding how Sunny might work with your own mare!
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