ALLIENCE
Three of the most famous of Allience’s national winners were foaled in 1997. Two of them were born in May, just a day apart, JKF MacGregor (x AP Mackenzie, by Huckleberry Bey) and the splendid Half-Arabian mare Alicia CA (x Heather’s Holiday). JKF MacGregor is a seven-time national champion and five-time reserve champion in English pleasure open and show hack, English pleasure and amateur pleasure driving. Most recently he was the 2009 U.S. National English Show Hack AAOTR Champion. Alicia CA, last shown in 2008, is a seven-time national champion and once reserve in country English pleasure and driving, open, amateur, junior horse and junior-to-ride. Diversity was always a viable asset when breeding a mare to *Aladdinn, and Allience has followed suit, siring several world-class dressage horses and a multi-national champion jumper in among his many English performance champions. At the level that the dressage talent, OKW Entrigue (x *Ekspresja, by Bandos), and the jumper, Hope Springs Eternal (x Pajarito Esprit, by Top Contender) compete, they are extraordinary Arabians in the finest sense of the word. OKW Entrigue competes with and frequently defeats top horses of Thoroughbred and Warmblood breeding. Hope Springs Eternal is a multi-national champion in jumping and a 10-time national top ten. This extreme athletic ability is an impressive gift that comes from both Allience and *Aladdinn. Owners Nancy Shafer and Gregg and Lotta Shafer offer some insight into the Allience phenomenon. “We have over 50 horses at our farm now,” Gregg notes. “We also keep a number of horses for Faydelle Schott. Among numerous Allience get, we have a 3-year-old filly, Lucky Allience, and a 2009 weanling filly, Alltressa, out of our multinational champion Half-Arabian mare Lucky Attress. Both are very good. It’s important with the Allience offspring to let them grow up before you ask too much. His youngsters are slow to mature, but they consistently improve with age and training, and they are frequently sound and showing well into equine middle and old age. We have a 3-year-old Half-Arabian gelding by Allience out of our multi-national champion Half-Arabian park horse mare, Mattaroyale. His name is All That Matters. He is so loose and flexible that he can lift up a front leg and place his hoof on his stall wall four feet up. I’ve never seen an Arabian or a Half-Arabian horse that has a shoulder that inherently loose. Allience sires great athletes, many of them with amazing balance, tremendous strength of back, and unique flexibility in the poll and the shoulder. It’s what makes them very special, and it’s why we wanted to have Allience as an important part of our breeding program.” Gregg is looking forward to bringing his popular and energetic grey mare Hallelujah Baby (x Hallelujah Bask, by *Bask) back in national competition this coming year. A five-time U.S. and Canadian national and reserve national champion amateur park horse, Hallelujah Baby is a half-sister to multi-national champion Hey Hallelujah.
All Staar and Peter Stachowski.
Invictus JB and Tish Kondas.
JKF MacGregor and Joel Kiesner.
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