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Congratulations to Sean Norris and Shelly Avidon
on the purchase of this wonderful stallion. May you
have as much success as we had while owning him!

SADDLE HORSE REPORT VOTES BASQUIAT IN
TOP FIVE IN-HAND LIVING SIRES!

This noble seven year old stallion joined us in July 2003. We feel humbled to own such a magnificent specimen of an American Saddlebred. As a World Champion with a World Champion yearling filly daughter on his record, we felt that he was the ideal stud for the Sunset Farm Brood Mares.

WC Basquiat earned his title in the two year old in-hand division of the 1998 Kentucky Amateur Futurity. He also won the same division of the Indiana Futurity.

He is the sire of 2002 Indiana Yearling Futurity Champion and Kentucky Amateur Yearling Futurity WC Lilly The Filly. Demonstrating that his get can also prove themselves in performance, this exciting filly was Reserve Junior Five-gaited Mare at Lexington Junior League in 2005. Basquiat has also sired 2004 Third Place Kentucky Amateur Weanling Futurity filly Basquietta. In 2006, Weanling Lily Tu placed 10^th in the highly competitive All American Cup and was 6^th in the Kentucky Amateur Weanling Futurity.

By Canadian Ambassador, also the sire of stakes winner Canadian Storm, Precisionist, A Rose From Canada, etc., Basquiat is a full brother to Near And Dear, fourth in the 2000 Amateur Weanling division of the Kentucky Futurity. He is a half brother to WC C & L's Twenty-Twenty, and to show horses Harvey Pike and Heirregular. His dam is a half sister to stakes winners Catfeesh, Anchor Ridge, Joe Perry Mad Max, etc. His second dam is three-gaited stakes winner Here Kitty, half sister to WC CH City Kitty, WC Hocus Pocus, WC Spartan's Sultan, RWC Fat Cat, and producers Featherbed and Louder Please. His third dam, Enchanted Hour, is a Hall of Fame Broodmare.

To live with Basquiat is to know him, and we are impressed with his gentle but powerful presence. Our original plan to breed Basquiat to our Sunset Farm broodmares has now changed. Doing natural cover only, we bred him in 2004 to fifteen mares belonging to friends. 2006 was also a busy year for us. So due to the demand, in 2007 we plan to expand our Basquiat breeding program by offering fresh cooled transported semen.

Basquiat is large-boned and stands 17 hands. He passes on his good sense and agreeable disposition with necks that come straight up out of his strong shoulders.

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