thanks we have both happy appies and crappy appies but appies are appies and would take great offense to merely being horses with spots lol having trained some people figured if i could train arabs i must be able to train appies go figure i can testify that if the arabian is the border collie of the horse world the appaloosa is the jack russell terrier perhaps crossed with something even more devious i e smart as a whip but if they had opposable thumbs would sneak in the house at night and if they didn't strangle us in our sleep they'd at least short sheet all the beds why they ever cooked up the idea of crossing them with of all things an akhal teke to get the nez perce horse is beyond me the people must be gluttons for punishment talk