Spanishroses, Frie x Hano is the fastest and easiest way to make a six-skiller, but there are plenty of other crosses to do as well.

So far I have produced six-skilled Paints, Hanos, Arabians, Hunters, Thoroughbreds, and Standardbreds.

The trick is to produce them with decent GP - most of your trot skill comes from either Friesians or Standards, both of whom are rather poor in GP (though Fries give excellent dressage and Standies give great speed).

It takes a lot of punch to bring that GP back up into the impressive range, and quite often you're left with a horse that is dominant in a high-GP breed (like Thor or Hunter) but has low GP for that breed. This makes comps - and selling the horse for a decent price - very, very difficult.

It's a challenging project, if you're looking for a horse of genuine quality, but oh so very rewarding when you get it right.

A classic example - Double-Barreled has two stars in every skill... great, right?

Wrong.

His GP is tanked so low, he'll be hard-pressed to do ANYthing right against purebreds, or even higher-GP crosses. It will take a ton of BM items and training to bring him his wins. Plus when it comes time to sell him, people will see a Frie with GP in the shallow end of the pool and pass him up for higher numbers. To make matters worse, his dressage is low for a Friesian, which will essentially cancel out the speed advantage he gains against his own breed. This means he'll get mightily stomped in the races, especially against other Fries.

Now Pardus, on the other hand, has plenty of GP spread out over those skills, and while he didn't win every race he entered, he managed his twenty wins in no time flat thanks to that high dressage. So even though he doesn't have multiple stars in every skill (he has only one in speed, trot, and jump), he still performed a good bit better than Double will.

Delicate balancing act, but do-able. And fun to boot!

I wish you luck, and let us know what works and doesn't work for you!

Heh, sorry about the long post, but I am a little obsessive about the six-skillers, in case you couldn't tell. They've been a favorite project of mine since my first day here.

When my first round of six-skilled Paints came out, they were very much in demand. To this day Chemical Balance, my first sixer Paint stud, is still the highest-GP stud of his kind. His covers are still flying out the gate as fast as I post them. He came about thanks to Eponym and his incredible HPX line, by the way - if you ever want to see a true legend in the crossing world, take a look at some of his past phenomenal work!

Almost anyone can make a sixer - it takes serious planning and effort to make a truly spectacular one!

*hops down off soapbox and heads for a beer*

I'm thinking about crossing these two foals after I've blupped them, opinions?

.FridayNightLights.

Every.Titan.Dog

I also need to buy passes soon, I'm getting to many foals that need blupping

mega-I think the foal(s) will be great! The wonderful dressage will be a bonus as well.

I Just Laugh got his 19th win. So close.

thankyou hOrsElUvEr95, I also just had another thought, breeding Every.Titan.Dog to a high * IH, gettting the GP higher, and then breeding that foal to Friday, or possibly a paint with 800GP, they've hit that now =D

wifey, those are beautiful kids! Those are the kind of foals that any serious breeder would drool over in the sales. :-)

Thankyou Cry, kitsune bred Friday for me, and I had youdontsay breed the filly, I just love crossbreeding lol

I know this is late but,
Beach- thanks
kitsune and chickentender- Thanks for producing amazing foals out of my stallion
chickentender- I had to do a double take on the triplets, lol! Pretty neat.

Congratulations on your 200th day.
Your welcome Rose, but I guess I need to say thanks to you! Lol, yeah its cool.

Finally got the mare that I really needed. Shadows on the Ice
Look at how much I paid for her too .

chicken- how'd you get her for that much? lol she's pretty

does anyone have any nice appy/tb crosses?

heatherfeather - Me and Cherokee are starting to do them. I have one of them...if you want to buy him. I'm going to start over with other horses.

Placebo my last foal will rank one for panted horse in trot

I was just passing through the rankings and saw that Falling Terror is ranked 13th in speed for quarter horses O:

kitsune-I smell a winner =D

chickentender - i was just wondering if anyone else was trying it or not. i have three right now. one filly and two colts.

Hello,

Does anyone know of any breeders that breed PaintxAppalossa crosses?

sorry wild cat, i dont although i have thought of doing the cross myself.

I like the cross and I've bred 2 of them myself, I just don't know if I can do it alone

WildCat, I'd be happy to breed one for you =D

Mega--->Could you? Can we discuss this in PMs so we don't clog or break the rules

Way ahead of you with the PMing =D

wild cat - im trying out appy/tb crosses right now. so far i have three.

Heather--->That sounds intresting