2023  Foals Arriving!
There are 13 colorful Palisades Appaloosa mares due to foal in 2023.   This year the foals are due  in early February thru June and one late bloomer in September. The babies are sired by two different stallions.  I will be working in the barn round the clock to attend each birth and to give each foal the proper time and attention that brings out the best in them. Spring and summer will be spent teaching them to be gentle and well mannered for their new owners. 

  I will post each mare as her time grows near and detail her development and delivery. The foals will be posted within a day or two of their birth. They can be reserved until weaning time with a 33% non refundable deposit. Click here to see our full Policy on foal sales.  

 I hope you enjoy the foaling season as much as I do. 
I love sharing this experience with my visitors, especially those not lucky enough to have horses of their own. 

Each of the mares' photos are linked to their personal page for photos and pedigrees and past foals.. just click!

We also have a facebook page, Palisades Appaloosas
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KK Kween of Dreams (Summer) X WK Remaarkable Panda (Max)

Due February 8 
foaled February 22nd 8 am

   This foal combines the bloodlines of Dreamin Dun,  Peaches  and Max..   Summer is a maiden mare, sweet natured and broke to ride.  

Finally , two weeks past her due date.. Summer delivered a sorrel snowcap colt, tall and leggy, quick to get on his feet, loudly announcing his arrival. 

PA Summer Sundance, Sunny...3,000
Sunny is reserved for Rachel
Miss Wallaby Doc  (Rosie) X Mighty Bright  Reward (Samson)  

Due February 6
Foaled February l4th


This is Rosie's first foal.. chestnut with blanket and spots..   Valentine 

offered for sale at $3,000

Valentine is RESERVED!
The Runaway Valentine..... Rosie and Summer share a 6 acre paddock (paddock 3) by themselves, both being due to foal early in the season, both maidens and not blended into the mare/foal herd yet.  Each night, after Peru and her group of 9 are in stalls, I let Rosie and Summer run into the barn to stalls where dinner awaits. They are always waiting at their gate. Always. But not last night.
Summer greeted me alone at the gate.. no Rosie.   It was February and pitch black .

  Immediately i suspected she was in labor in the dark, somewhere in that six acres. I stashed Summer in her stall and got my small tractor with lights and drove out there and methodically inspected the entire paddock twice, up and down as if mowing.. and no Rosie. I called my husband, who came with the Ranger and we did the inspection all over again. No Rosie. I dispatched him to paddock 4.. the next one over that the mare and foal group had been using which was open to run into the barn.. and i drove into paddock 2, which has six later pregnant mares confined off fescue. They were standing around wondering what the holdup on dinner was here tonight. 

  I found no Rosie in with the pregnant mares and came out to see a moving shadow of brown followed by a flash of white on the hillside next to the barn. Mitch has flushed Rosie and her newborn filly out of paddock 4. One look at me, and Rosie took her first precious baby and went BACK into the paddock she is usually in and disappeared in the dark. We were back to square one and it was now about an hour since I began my search. 

  After another 30 minutes of Mitch and I herding them on foot and with the ranger over 20 acres, closing all paddock gates to take away choices… they finally ran into the barn where she took her filly, Runaway Valentine, into her stall and began eating her grain. Her afterbirth still hung under her tail. I joined them, milked the mare, which she allowed and which caused her placenta to cleanse.. and gave the foal some colostrum by mouth in case she had not gotten much yet in the chaos. She was exhausted for about l0 minutes and got up and started dancing around and nursing. What a birthday.. she ran about 20 acres several times over. 

  So.. Rosie had had to go over a fence and THEN deliver her filly to have ended up in another pasture… and somehow she evaded the eagle eye of Peru who would have absolutely told me something very odd was going on in her territory! That's extremely unusual.. nothing gets past queen Peru.


  On second thought… having checked the entire fenceline and seeing no bend or break at all.. Rosie and her filly probably exited the paddock we were searching thru the open gate in the dark ...and just went into the next paddock to evade us.  and so on!
Strictly Ballroom
Tango X Mighty Bright Reward..
    Due...March 7th

 Tango is one of our best producing mares, 19 years young. and half Arabian.   March 19, 12:30 am , Tango munched hay while delivering her black fewspot filly.   I attended the entire foaling this time, and was amazed to see how easy it appeared for Tango.  I fed her filly colostrum before she even stood up, from Tango who was producing a great milk supply. 
This filly was offered for sale at 3500 and is RESERVED

Click the mare's pics to see their personal page.
Earthlight Cowgirl
Valentine is offered for sale at $3,000  
Valentine is Reserved
Skips Jazzy Blue X Mighty Bright Reward

     Due March 2nd, foaled in the barnyard March 11 about 4 pm, quick n easy.. all by herself in the barnyard by the round pen!!  A visitor rushed up to the house to alert me and we got Jazzy and her new foal in the barn together. 

    Jazzy presented us with a beautiful healthy bay filly with just a few white spots on her rump.  Her conformation is proud and pretty.   She is athletic and and adventurous. 
 Lacey was offered for sale at 2800 and is RESERVED.


Mauzi X Mighty Bright Reward

    Due to foal March 6th, foaled march 9th.. 4 am.

   After a very long hard labor,  mauzi and i delivered a big beautiful fewspot filly with blue eyes.  Sadly, the filly was harmed by lack of oxygen during the birth and in spite of extensive veterinary care.. she only survived 5 days.    Mauzi has recovered and is doing fine. 

Lucky Lady Friday,    Peru....
Lucky Lady Friday, Peru X Remaarkable Panda, Max
    Due March 27

Peru is special.. she was born here, raised here, and is a dominant mare in the herd. I broke her to ride myself, and have a special relationship with this people loving mare.  Peru is a half sister to our stallion, Samson, so she is bred to Max for a second foal.  Peru is a fewspot, and had two genes for appaloosa color.. so the foal will have some level of color and could be black or red based. 
    March 27th, Peru presented us with a black colt with her beautiful head and socks.  He carries the color gene, but it's not showing yet! Diablo is an elegant colt and will most likely be offered for sale at weaning.  It's hard to let him go!
Roselyn's  Smores
Smores X Mighty Bright Reward
        Due  March 30TH

Im excited about this cross.. both parents are broad and muscular..  im expecting a very nicely built colorful foal.   Smores has been bred to Zeke and Markus in the past, but never to Samson. 

March 28th..   Smores delivered a big healthy bay snowcap colt!
KK the Dream Begins,   
               Peaches
Peaches X Remaarkable Panda  Due March 31st

Peaches was the very first appaloosa mare I purchased 23 years ago as she turned one.  She is mother to Sage and Summer.. and l3 other fine foals.   Peaches is homozygous for black and for the LP gene .. and carried leopard pattern. 


April lst 4:30 AM.The filly arrived shortly before i joined Peaches in her stall to tend to her and the baby!  SHe is a bay fewspot filly.. long legged and pretty headed. She's elegant, not a lot of meat on her yet, but long long legs and fluid movement.
Dahlia tested homozygous for Black, LP and PATN1.. a perfect cross on a Friesian Stallion 
She is reserved for Chasity
$3400
Smores gave me a gift… she followed her past pattern of having her foal near her due date, got a nice full udder that didn't diminish during turnout…She waited till 3 am to start delivering.. giving me 4 hours of sleep prior to having to go to work! Her colt was on the ground by 3:20, when i cleaned the stall and bedded it in hay. I milked Smores and fed her colt some colostrum before he got to his feet by 4:30…and by 5 am he was at her udder and, I was back to sleep for a couple hours. Perfect! thank you Smores and Samson.        Apollo is a true snowcap. LP/LP  he is bay based  Ee Aa
Offered for sale at  $3400    He is reserved for Carol!
WF   Stella Dallas
Cleo X Max!   
   Due April l5th.. 

Cleo is up next this time bred to Remaarkable Panda.  She's looked ready for awhile and I am watching her in the barn at night.  She usually needs some help from me, so i want to be there for her.   I expect she will have her foal prior to or at he due date.   It could be bay, black or red based.. leopard, solid or fewspot.. just about anything.
April 12th.. I was watching Cleo closely.. and was at her side from 4:15 am until baby arrived at 4:40 with some help from me.  Cleo was very funny, looking back and talking at her hind end after every contraction as if to say... are you here yet?   Out came a red leopard only lightly sprinkled with spots, legs that don't quit and a beautiful head. 
Sprinkle is reserved for Carol!
$3400


Hadar Dream (sage) X Max..
Due April l4... April 29th 3 am..

I am stunned. After l4 nights of watching Sage and waiting, she delivered a beautiful stillborn leopard filly. When I first approached Sage in labor, I was alarmed. She was standing, her hind end covered in blood, the white amniotic sac visible, but it was ringed by torn red placenta. This said to me that the placenta was prematurely detached. I helped to quicken the delivery, but it was not easy.. about 20 minutes. The filly had movement during the delivery.. but as soon as she was fully on the ground .. she was still and limp.. I closed her mouth and one nostril and breathed through the other for 20 minutes, watching her chest go up and down trying to keep her oxygenated and hoping for her to awaken. Sage leaned down and licked her side and talked to her gently..but we could not revive her. Eventually i tore myself away and lay down to rest to be ready to care for the rest of the herd when the sun rose. Sage and i were heart broken. 

IT's been a very very difficult foaling season here with three losses when i have had only about 12 over 22 years.

Waps Night Sky (Ruby) X Mighty Bright Reward (Samson)  Due May 31st

Ruby is a home grown mare,  sired by Twilight Reemarkable and out of Smores.   She and Max have the same daddy.   This will be Ruby's second foal and is due late May.  
 June 3rd Ruby read the foaling textbook and did everything accordingly!  She came in that evening with a full udder.  She circled the stall and slashed her tail,  rubbed her entire side and hind quarters against the walls. Finally about 4 am, she lay down and foaled a bay leopard colt without any help from me.  He was vigorous from the start, up at 4:30 and nursing by 5 am.   After this year's losses, i was very very grateful to have a healthy baby boy. 

Rowdy will be offered for sale at $3600

Rowdy is Reserved!
Sheza Shooting Star, 
                   Missy
Missy X Samson (mighty Bright Reward)
 Due september 20th

Missy was a trail mare most of her life before coming here to be both a riding mare and broodmare.  This will be her second foal by Samson.  She went and entire year's gestation the first time, so we could end up in October.



Waps Night Sky            Ruby!
Missy developed placentitis at 11 weeks prior to her due date.  In spite of treatment, she delivered early and the placenta detached prematurely.  This caused multiple problems in her black and white filly .  We treated her aggressively for 21 days, but in the end had to put her to rest.  

Missy has returned to her career as a lesson and trail horse with a friend who lives close by.  She seems happy in this familiar role.