Trinity Appaloosa Farm

07/07/2025

📱 answer that call! There's only one COSMIC GROOVE ✨️

07/06/2025

Wow, wow, wow 🤩 What a filly! Speckapoo is a daughter of Heckapoo from our 2018 foal crop. She is one of the last ApHC daughters of our late Colida SkipNTwist. It's amazing to see his lines carried forward in her beautiful foals!

This girl is absolutely radiant against the backdrop of vibrant sunflowers surrounding our ring! Speckapoo is, without a doubt, a lovely filly.

07/05/2025

🌟 🎵Why don’t we shoot for the stars? I bet we’ll land on the moon🎶🌙

T-minus 3... 2... 1... Helix🧬 is blasting off into the weekend ☄️🪐

Ready for liftoff?🚀
..Maybe a quick stop by the wash rack 🛁 before we head to the stars!

07/05/2025

July 4th, 2025

This year, July 4th feels different. Our country is facing real challenges: division, uncertainty, and questions about who we are and who we want to be.

Our family, staff, friends, and clients represent all walks of life across both America, and the horse industry itself. While values like diversity and inclusion are too often challenged or even demonized at their mere mention today, we remain committed to creating a space where everyone is welcomed, valued, and able to thrive.

Today isn’t just about routine celebration. It’s a moment to reflect, recommit, and act with quiet determination. Building a better future takes patience, hard work, and hope that doesn’t give up. Enjoy your time, we get so little of it for free, but remember what it costs, and that there are countless people who have to work in order for others to rest. Those people are your friends, neighbors, family, even your rivals, and they matter.

From all of us at Trinity Appaloosa Farm, we’re grateful for the freedoms we do have, and we're committed to being a place of belonging, not exclusion. A place where people of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs can feel safe, respected, and seen, and share in their love and partnership with both horses and agriculture as a whole. We’re dedicated to working toward a more just and welcoming tomorrow... even when the path isn’t easy. 🌱

And one final reminder: horses and fireworks do NOT mix. 🚑 Please be mindful of your neighbors with animals. Community is built on caring.

07/04/2025

❄️ Why We Freeze Brand Our Horses ❄️

We freeze brand our horses, both bought and bred. And we believe more people should.

Why? Because a freeze brand is a permanent, visible identifier, one that can help a horse be traced back to its breeder or previous home even years after it’s changed hands, lost papers, or ended up in the wrong situation. There are several horses we bred and sold before we began freeze branding that we would love to go back and brand.

We’ve personally seen horses reunited with their history, their breeders and previous owners, and even their original names. All because someone posted a picture of their brand.

There is a camp that likes to call freeze branding inhumane. But here’s the thing:
Freeze branding, done properly, is
less traumatic than a lot of routine things we do with horses.

👉 It's less stressful than weaning.
👉 It’s less invasive than gelding.
👉 It’s more humane than a hot brand.
👉 For many horses, it's more tolerable than the farrier, the dentist, trailering, shots, deworming, competing, being ridden, or even just being saddled at all.

And yet, many of the people who like to shout against freeze branding will use equipment and training practices that can traumatize a horse exponentially more than a 30-second freeze brand. Many horses don't even need sedation for freeze branding, but people don't blink at sedating for teeth floating, sheath cleaning, pregnancy checks, even clipping. It's performative outrage, especially when that thirty seconds to brand can reunite a horse with their history in a way that none of the above reasons can.

We’re not here to shame anyone who chooses differently to invest in their horse's long term identification, but we are here to advocate for tools that help horses stay safe, traceable, and connected to their origins, and to shine a light on why people who advocate against it while doing all the usual practices of horsekeeping are just kinda silly.

Ask yourself this: If your horse were lost, stolen, or passed from sale to sale without context… how would anyone know who they really are? Especially horses that don't have extremely identifying markings or horses who varnish, grey out, get injured or sick, or disfigured somehow along the way. Would you recognize your horse ten years from now in a loose auction pen? Dirty, skinny, white in the face?

07/03/2025

✨ Throwback Thursday: HEXENBIEST✨

Born in 2018, Beast has proven himself a true star in the ASHDA ring; undefeated in Conformation from his early days as a weanling to his crowning moment as the 2024 National Champion in Stallions Conformation, National Grand Champion Stallion, and OVERALL National Grand Champion.

With 7 straight wins to his name in Conformation along with a slew of overall grand and reserve championships in both the Junior and aged divisions, Beast demonstrates exceptional quality and consistency, reflecting the strong genetics behind him.

Beast has had a limited production, but his 2024 filly, Sugarbush Smokeshow, is all the proof anyone needs that his quality isn't a fluke! Put a Beastie🐈‍⬛ in your barn- start planning for your 2026 breedings.

07/03/2025

We’ve had a lot on our hearts this season... from adjusting breeding plans, to caring for Versailles and her ongoing treatments, plus all the day-to-day happenings around the farm and family.

Because we’re always looking for ways to keep our community close, especially during quieter years, we’re exploring something new:

✨ A subscription page that rhymes with 'Matreon' where friends, fans, and followers can get involved with the farm and enjoy behind-the-scenes updates, early foal and breeding news, sneak peeks at current projects, outtakes from our photoshoots, never-before-seen photos from past years, polls, bloopers, and other fun “Out of This World” content 🛸🐴

The best part? We’ll post this content to subscribers first, then share much of it later on our other social channels for everyone.

Before, a lot of great moments went unshared because we focused only on the ‘big’ highlights. This way, so much more gets shared!

We’re still in the early planning stages, and before we clear for launch, we’d love your input:

👉 Would you be interested in something like this?
👉 What kind of exclusive content would you want to see?
👉 Do you prefer 'Matreon' or another platform? Let us know!

Our tiers will be small and affordable with great value for what we’ll offer. We know not everyone can own a horse or visit the farm, so this bonus content would give a way to stay connected 🫂 with updates, insights, and exclusive content no matter where you are in our galaxy 💫

And no matter what, this will in no way take away from what we already share with our fans and followers!

Let us know what you think 🗣

07/02/2025

Too many broodmares spend their lives as strangers to people. Only handled to be bred and living the rest of their lives like a wild animal.

They stand in mud with overgrown hooves, never groomed, never handled, many aren't even halter broke and only stampeded place to place.

That’s not breeding for a quality foal, because you don't even KNOW the mare; her personality, her brains, her trainability. If she can trust and work with a human partner. These are traits that should be considered extremely important when breeding for a future partner as well.

At our farm, our mares aren't second-class citizens. They get the same feed, vet care, and respect as our show horses, and we don't skimp when it comes to pre-natal and foaling care either.

Because a mare isn’t a printer for more foals. She’s MORE than half the equation. It's her genetics that pass to the foal, but also her attitude and smarts in raising that foal the first part of their life. And if you don’t love and know the mare, you’re not breeding for quality. You’re just producing inventory.

Buyers: Look past the foal. Ask how the mare lives. That’s what you're paying for when you bring a foal home.

07/02/2025

Hexenbiest is looking incredible for being in pasture shape 💪

His coat has shifted from solid black to something that looks like a starry night sky 🌌

He carries his mother's legacy well… there’s real magic✨️ in this boy.

07/02/2025

This is not a drill! 👽🛸 The aliens are stealing our foals! And honestly? Can you blame them 👑?

🔥

06/30/2025

🚀 Color test results have landed and Houston, we have three stars! 🌠

Helix is Ee AA Dnd1 LPLP and N/PATN1. This confirms our beautiful girl is a BAY DUN FEWSPOT! And with that double dominant agouti, the future's looking mighty bay!

Polaris is Ee Aa LPlp, a handsome bay blanket! Nothing hiding, he's got it all on display, and showing just how much coverage a single LP gene can give to all the naysayers!

Citadelle decided to be a copy-cat and is also Ee Aa LPlp, which shows the huge range of expression for single copy LP! She's got no spots at all, but all the other signs: sclera, mottling, striped feet. Now we just have to wait for the spots to come in!

One other exciting part of this is the one we already knew... 🥁 the red gene🧬! In the Sugarbush Harlequin Draft, there has not been a chestnut LP foal born into the Main Book from the founding lines since Everett's original breeding program, and that horse was sadly gelded. Any further chestnut E-designation horses have unfortunately been solid and gelded as well, making that loud spotted red horse quite elusive! Our own program has all but one founding line horse being EE, and all of our Improvement mares at this time are also EE, except for our lease mare Godiva. With these two Ee foals added to the breed gene pool, the possibility of a chestnut LP founding line foal in future years has increased! Citadelle already has the founding lines, and any other ASHDA horse with a red gene (like Polaris) could be crossed on a founding line mare with a red gene for that chance! Further using our 2x National Champion ASHDA AC red dun fewspot stallion, Medallionaire, who is Polaris's sire, we'll hopefully be seeing some beautiful spotty reds someday soon!

And of course, everyone is 7panel NN through parentage, making for three OUT OF THIS WORLD babies!

06/29/2025

"So, stop doubting yourself, and just feel that Cosmic Groove!" -Tom Cardy, H.S. 🎵🚀🎶✨