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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) "