Missouri's Silver Rhythm

Rhythm is a strongly gaited chestnut we acquired as an eighteen month old stallion.  His mane appears silver, and is also in his tail, thus his name, which might be caused by a sooty gene on top of flaxen. His chestnut color also has a slight rust tint to it that may also be a factor of the sooty gene. Rhythm was a stallion for us until age six and sired foals for three breeding seasons. He is heavily gaited with a pedigree that’s the who’s who of western working gaited Morgans including Windenstone, Omar Sherif, Stellar, and Mentor.  He has a great temperament and is a relaxed and calm horse, and was also very well behaved when covering a mare as a stallion. He also has good conformation, is very smart and a quick study; not to mention gorgeous.  Ned Leigh, the trainer who picked him up for us on his way back from Kentucky told me on his first progress report on the way here that, “You hit the jackpot with this horse!”  His first foal, LeDan's Wind and Stone (Stoney), hit the ground gaiting in 2012 and was everything we hoped for; check him out under the Foals menu on this web site. Stoney was sold in December, 2013 as a young stallion. Two more very nice colts hit the ground gaiting in 2013; LeDan's Rhythm in the Wind (Pistol) and LeDan's Jondalar. Check Jondalar out on the Geldings page and Pistol out on the Foals page on this web site. Rhythm's final foal arrived in March 2014, LeDan's I've Got Rhythm (Cimarron), another strongly gaited gorgeous chestnut colt with great conformation. See him under the Geldings menu on this web site. He is currently under training as one of Letha's two riding horses. We decided to stop breeding and gelded Rhythm in 2014 to enable enjoying him as a full time riding horse. We sold him a couple years later after retiring and cutting down our numbers of horses in favor of keeping his colt Jondalar as one of Dan's two riding horses.  He went to a good home and was doing endurance last we knew.