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Allusion AOF with Susanne Mackrell
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"I saw Allionce and fell in love with him," says Susanne Mackrell. "He is breathtaking. The second you see him, you can't take your eyes off him. He just demands your attention. He is so proud of himself. He is the ultimate horse! I tried to buy his son Allusion AOF when he was a weanling but Toni Wessell, his breeder, wouldn't sell him at that time. I waited and waited, and finally bought him in December of 1995. To me, Allusion AOF and Allionce are almost identical except in color."
Allionce with Steve Heathcott and owner Toni Wessell holding his 1993 U.S. National Reserve Champion Futurity Colt trophy.
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Trainer Steve Dady of Omni Arabians in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was also taken by Allionce's beauty and charisma. "I first saw Allionce as a three year old in the National Futurity class in Albuquerque," Steve says. "He was a great halter horse with obvious athletic ability. His most outstanding feature was his long, upright neck. He has a ton of quality and a lot of Arabian type."
Another satisfied mare owner is Dr. Charlie Boles of Specifically Equine, who has been Allionce's vet for the past four years and has bred five mares to Allionce. "Few Arabian stallions are correct enough to show at a National level at halter as well as athletic enough to compete in English Pleasure," he says. "Allionce is so extreme in both areas, he can't help but pass it on. There's something else Allionce has going for him: soundness."
Greg Gallun with Allionce
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Greg Gallun of Gallun Farms, LLC, Santa Ynez, CA said, "He's one of those rare individuals that excels in two fields of expertise, and a horse with the one factor that separates all great horses from all good horses: tremendous quality. Walk by his stall and his head is up, his ears are up, even in the dead of night. He's very tractable and always a gentleman in the barn, but take him out for presentation and the tail goes up and he gives his all. Any performance horse has to like himself and have the desire to be liked -- qualities that Allionce uses to his advantage in halter as well. When we trotted into the ring at Scottsdale, I wish I could have been in the stands to watch him -- the high head, the high tail, the great entrance. It's just fun to lead something like that."
"He's built to be an English pleasure horse, with his high-set neck, great big wither, and hind legs he can put underneath his belly," says Jim Lowe. "He's so similar to the great *Bask horses in the way he carries himself -- looks like he's 16 hands tall when he's trotting down the rail."
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