Overview
$6,418 in LTE
- 28 AQHA Points holding AQHA ROM
- AQHA World Champion Junior Western Pleasure Horse
- QData Top 25 All-Time Sire of Western Pleasure Money-Earners
- QData top 25 All-Time Sire of Western All-Around Money-Earners
- AQHA Top 25 all-Time Sire of Western Pleasure point-earners
- Sire of 195 money-earners
- $1,349,648 and earners of 27,312 AQHA points
- SIRE OF RL BEST OF SUDDEN ($102,040: Reichert Celebration Western Pleasure Futurity Challenge Open Champino)
- SIRE OF RL SUDDENLY FAMOUS ($67,801 and 1,321.5 AQHA points: AQHA Reserve World Champion Amateur Showmanship Horse, AQHA Amateur Champion).
1987 Chestnut Quarter Horse | 1969 Sorrel Quarter Horse | ||
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1986 Chestnut Quarter Horse | 1969 Sorrel Quarter Horse | ||
1979 Chestnut Quarter Horse | Unknown | ||
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- 25% Zippo Pat Bars
- 12.5% Three Bars
- 12.5% Leo Pat
Outstanding Progeny sired by A Sudden Impulse
| Horse | Info | Sire | Dam | |
 | A Danson Impulse | 1996 Bay Overo Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Pocosmedicinedance |
| A Secret Impulse | 2004 Chestnut Mare | A Sudden Impulse | |
| A Sudden Pleasure | 1996 Chestnut Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Purely For Pleasure |
| A Sudden Silhouette | 2000 Chesntut Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Qualitee Cluso |
| A Sudden Star | 1999 Palomino Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Bee G Ms Starwatcher |
| A Sudden Surprise | 2000 Chestnut Overo Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Designs By Zippo |
 | A Touch of Sudden | 1999 Bay Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Ms Satin Classic |
| Designed By Sudden | 2002 Bay Mare | A Sudden Impulse | |
| First Impulse | 1998 Red Roan Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Look At Me Now |
| Hes Suddenly Famous | 1998 Sorrel Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Fame My Brick |
| Impulses Diamond | 1997 Brown Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Lyns Diamond Babe |
| Kiss My Impulse | 1998 Sorrel Mare | A Sudden Impulse | |
| MDR Impulsive | 2000 Chestnut Overo Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Ms Dee Reynolds |
| Ona Impulse | 1996 Brown Mare | A Sudden Impulse | |
 | RL Best of Sudden | 2002 Bay Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Zip N Therapy |
| RL Customized | 2002 Bay Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Cantallbegoodlikeme |
| RL Essence | 2004 Chestnut Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Very Very Special |
| RL Good Time Sudden | 2001 Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Zippity Good Bar |
| RL Saved By Impulse | 2004 Mare | A Sudden Impulse | |
| RL Sudden Pretty | 2003 Chestnut Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Miss MBJ Elegant |
| Sudden Investment | 2000 Chestnut Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Shesa Vested Doc |
| Suddenly Cool | 2000 Chestnut Overo Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Im Completely Cool |
| Suddenly Iresistable | 2000 Chestnut Mare | A Sudden Impulse | |
| Suddenly Sweet | 2004 Sorrel Tobiano Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Tout Suite Sky Bug |
| The Sudden Impulse | Chestnut Stallion | A Sudden Impulse | Zippos Supreme Bar |
| Zippin On Impulse | 2000 Chestnut Mare | A Sudden Impulse | Zippin Down Town |
| Zizzles Hot Impulse | 1997 Chestnut Mare | A Sudden Impulse | |
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