FIRST DOWN

FIRST DOWN
IMP USA

AUSTRALIA'S LEADING PAINT HORSE HALTER STALLION*

WORLD CHAMPION
1999 Red Dun Paint Stallion 16.3HH
Overo Lethal White Negative
PHAA 6874
HYPP N/N, HERDA N/N, PSSM N/N & MH N/N.

Sire: Touchdown Kid (USA/Dec)
Dam: Versas Spicy Star (USA/Dec)

First Down is considered in the US to be the best Paint Horse Stallion in the world; he possesses all the modern attributes that are so strongly desired in the modern Halter Horse.

First Down is a red dun who stands at 16.3 hands, has awesome low muscle, great hip, croup and back and has one of the prettiest fronts and absolutely gorgeous head which is so desirable on a stallion anywhere in the world.

He has tested OVERO LETHAL WHITE NEGATIVE.

First Down has never been defeated and is a major Halter Futurity Champion as well as winning the 2001 World Wide Paint Horse Congress - Grand Champion and Circuit Champion. In 2002 First Down won 2YO WORLD CHAMPION. Beyond this, First Down is siring foals that will prove he will be the best Paint Horse Stallion around.

*First Down was the winner for the 2007 National Champion Get Of Sire Award (Sire of group of 3 offspring).

Standing the 2010 season for $1,600*
$500 non refundable booking fee
* conditions apply

Click here for First Down's 2010 Breeding Contact

PEDIGREE

First Down is sired by the great Quarter Horse stallion Touchdown Kid and his dam is the awesome producing Paint mare Versas Spicey Star who is a World and Reserve World Champion Producer.

TOUCHDOWN KID	KID CLU	OBVIOUS CONCLUSION	CONCLUSIVE
			BUZS BACCARAT
		CONCLUSIVES LACE	CONCLUSIVE
			A STAR FOR SURE
	LADY REVIEW	IMPRESSIVE REVIEW	PRETTY IMPRESSIVE
			TAFFY SKIP
		JUSTA GRAND	SUNNY GO GRAND
			RANCHO DEL

VERSAS SPICY STAR	VERSA STAR	VERSARY BARS	PAINTED ROBIN
			JOCITA BARS
		SHEZA STAR	DOTYS SOCKS
			DAWN CREEK
	SPICE IS NICE	JIMMIE THE KID	JIMMIETTE
			KID MEYERS
		MISS DANDEE	HAPPY HOUR MAGIC
			NIMBELS QUEEN

PROGENY

Below are just a few of First Down's impressive foals .......

DMB THE EYES HAVE IT
2007 Grullo Overo Filly
Dam: FF Shes Ebonyandivory (IMP USA)

DMB FIRST STRIKE
2006 Red Dun Overo Colt
Dam: FF Shes Ebonyandivory (IMP USA)

FOR SALE

FIRST DOWN
IMP USA

DON BURKE'S STORY ...

I could never forget the day that I found First Down. We had been looking around the USA for about five years for a paint stallion, but we really didn't see anything that we liked. Then we popped into Lyn Simon's place and I saw a stunning paint stallion under a rug in a stable. Is it for sale? Yes, he said. Can you get him out for me? Sure. As Lyn took the rug off First Down my legs nearly went from under me. I never thought that it was possible to breed a paint stallion this good. First Down was clearly generations ahead of any paint that I had ever seen: he had a huge amount of muscle, a strong back, great hocks, a stunning neck, a dolly head and more presence than I had ever seen in a quarter horse or paint.

As if this wasn't enough, he was NN for HYPP and was a sabino (ie negative for the lethal white syndrome). He can never produce a lethal white foal to any mare. His sire is Touchdown Kid and his mother is one of the great paint brood and show mares, Versas Spicey Star.

We purchased First Down and entered him in the World Paint Congress. He won Grand Champion Paint Stallion. He went on to win World Champion Two Year Old stallion at the APHA World Show the following year. It is very rare to find a horse that is equally as strong in its father's line as it is in its mother's. First Down's mother, Versas Spicey Star, is every bit as good a dam as Touchdown Kid is a sire. We purchased her too and have some great siblings and half siblings to First Down growing up in the USA.

First Down is now in Australia but is widely regarded in the USA as the best paint stallion ever bred. He has matured at over 16.3HH and has a gloriously gentle disposition. His first foal crop has been born in Australia and he produced 75% registrable paint foals and 25% solids. All of his foals are a "type". That is, he produces foals that are of very high quality and remarkably similar to each other. When we mated him to a very old-fashioned mare, he still produced an ultra-modern colt that would be competitive at shows anywhere in the world. He clearly classifies as a prepotent sire.

We are currently about to place First Down in Quarantine to collect semen to freeze and export to the USA and Canada. His semen freezes well and we already have one mare in foal from one insemination with thawed semen from him. One hundred percent so far......

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