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FIRST SECRETARY H, APPALOOSA, 1974 Color: ch Height: 17.0 ApHC #401602 No one knew for sure if Secretariat would produce offspring. Lab results found the Triple Crown winner and Thoroughbred legend had immature sperm in differing amounts. So the Claiborne Farm staff decided to test breed the stallion. By chance, they chose a nurse mare named Leola, an Appaloosa. Secretariat was fertile, and the breeding took. Several Appaloosa enthusiasts contacted Claiborne Farm to buy the mare and her unborn foal. John and Lynn Nankivil of Winona, Minnesota, prevailed with an undisclosed amount of money and purchased Leola and the chance that she carried a colored colt. Even before the foals birth, several breeders had purchased breeding rights to Secretariats first foal, without knowing if Leola would produce a colt. On the cold Minnesota night of November 15, 1974, Leola produced Secretariats first foal, a blanketed Appaloosa clone of the great Thoroughbred. First Secretary grew to a full 17 hands, an inch taller than his sire. And like his sire, First Secretary owned a rich red coat, three white socks and a blaze. The foaling made national news, and even forced President Gerald Ford to apologize for a remark he had recently made at a Republican fundraising event. He had said that his critics, like Secretariat, were fast on their feet but not producing much. Secretariat had produced something for the Appaloosa world. First Secretarys November birthday made him ineligible to race, so instead his owners used him as a stud. He sired 247 foals including 39 race starters and 33 point earners. First Secretary lived into old age and died in 1993 after suffering from colic. Running in the Snow: http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w76/LarryTheLegend/FirstSecretary.jpg (CLOSE) FIRST SECRETARY* ch 17.0 1974 APPALOOSA SECRETARIAT* ch 16.2 1970 THOROUGHBRED BOLD RULER* br 16.0 1954 THOROUGHBRED NASRULLAH* b 1940 THOROUGHBRED NEARCO* br 1935 PHAROS* br 1920 NOGARA* b 15.1 1928 MUMTAZ BEGUM* b 1932 BLENHEIM* br 15.3 1927 MUMTAZ MAHAL* gr 1921 MISS DISCO* b 1944 THOROUGHBRED DISCOVERY ch 16.1 1931 DISPLAY b 1923 ARIADNE br 1926 OUTDONE b 1936 POMPEY b 1923 SWEEP OUT b 1926 SOMETHINGROYAL* b 1952 THOROUGHBRED PRINCEQUILLO* b 1940 THOROUGHBRED PRINCE ROSE* b 1928 ROSE PRINCE* b 1919 INDOLENCE b 1920 COSQUILLA b 1933 PAPYRUS* br 1920 QUICK THOUGHT ch 1918 IMPERATRICE* b 1938 THOROUGHBRED CARUSO b 1927 POLYMELIAN ch 1914 SWEET MUSIC b 1917 CINQUEPACE b 1934 BROWN BUD br 1924 ASSIGNATION b 1930 LEOLA blk 1961 APPALOOSA YELLOW HOUSE ch ro app 1953 APPALOOSA RESERVATION BRED STUD APPALOOSA     RESERVATION BRED MARE APPALOOSA     COALIE APPALOOSA Edit Edit   * - Photo Available

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