Gerry Rushton Stables

2011 breedings/ 2012 foals will be eligible for the Weanling Gala at the Jubilee Regional

	This 7 year old stallion needs no introduction! He's been winning World titles since he was a yearling and this year was the culmination of that great career. He started his career off by being named World Champion Futurity Yearling Colt. The next year he went on to be named Grand National Champion2 yr old colt as well as being the World Champion Jr. Stallion that year. As a 3 yr old he was Reserve World Champion in his Futurity Park Harness division. As a 4 yr old he was reserve Grand National Champion in the 4 yr old Park Harness Stallions class as well as winning the Grand National Champion 4 yr old in hand Stallions. That year he continued to become the Reserve World Champion Sr. Stallion and Reserve World Champion Stallion. He returned as a 5 yr old to be the Reserve Grand National Open Park Harness Stallion Champion, Reserve Champion 5 and over Stallions in hand Champion, and Reserve World Champion Sr. Stallion. This is a show record that could make most green with envy, but it was all leading up to his 2009 World Championship show in which he was crowned the Unanimous World Grand Champion Open Park Harness winner. This horse has never left Oklahoma without a title and a cooler, he's won in hand and in harness, and he's only getting better with age! 2010 brought Sprite a new challenge. He would enter the Ama Park Harness ranks for the first time. He debuted at the Carousel Charity Show in Scottsdale in March with 2 eye catching performances and winning results. When we heard that the $10,000.00 winner take all class at the New England Morgan Horse Show in 2010 was the Ama Park Harness Championship, the decision was made to go for it! After shipping 3000 miles, Sprite put on 2 performances that left no question what he had come all that way for! After winning this prestigious class, which was so deep in great horses that it has been called by some the best class they've ever seen, Sprite headed to Oklahoma with a newfound confidence between he and owner/driver Elaine Olsen. They continued to dominate the division and were crowned the World Champions in the Ama Park Harness division, continuing Sprite's tradition of bringing home a cooler! But his show record is only a part of this horse's resume...his lineage is what breeders dream of...by HVK Vibrance, one of the few horses in our breed's history that has won both the Open Park Harness and the Open Park Saddle World Championships and out of Kim's Bellagante. Bellegante made history in 2007 when she was the dam of both the World Champion Stallion and the Reserve World Champion Stallion that year. She has secured her spot, easily, on the list of the elite Morgan dams of our time. she herself was a World Champion and she has proven able to produce the best of the best. So, his show record is equaled by few, certainly by the age of 7, and his pedigree is strong on the top and even stronger on that all important bottom side. However, his crowning glory is his attitude. He is a happy worker, he is honest, he is game but incredibly good thinking, he's smart and clever, and he absolutely thinks the world of himself. He has the attitude that could turn an average horse into a special one, but he starts well above average and his heart puts him into a unique spot reserved for the most elite...and we see no signs of him doing anything but continuing to get better with age. Titles, lineage, and physical traits are the statistics by which we measure a stallion when deciding if we want to breed to him. But there's another way to measure the value of a horse and that is by what people think of that horse. This horse inspired the Grand National audience into a standing ovation and a small roar! He has a fan club that reaches from coast to coast and then some, and those loyal fans recently voted him the Horse of the Year for 2009! This horse has no holes. He's sound, sane, charismatic, true trotting, talented, and certainly beautiful. He has curves where many don't, he's strong off both ends, and he oozes quality. When considering this horse for breeding, there's just no quality that we hope he doesn't pass on, no gap we hope to fill. SYP High Definition stands to the public at a stud fee of $3500.00. He has good semen and ships well and we expect his breeding career to be as stellar as his show one has been so far.