Yes! Mine are from North American lines and registered with the Appaloosa Horse Club in the USA. I have a line of working western horses and this year I have a lovely sport horse type from a Foundation bred appaloosa stallion.
I breed Appaloosas...... the other end of the scale to KarynK though as mine are all 16hh or more and the sports type as opposed to the foundation type. I also know a lot of App breeders so if you want info I may be able to help? PM me if you like!
My predominant breed is QHs, however I do have a handful of ApHCs here too. Apps and QHs often have similar lineage; you'll see the same old QH names popping up from time to time if you are buying an American bred ApHC.
All of the Appaloosas that live here with me are very smart horses; way more intelligent than the other breeds of horses who live here. My guys are quiet, very easy to handle and ride but they have to like you and get to know you before they will be happy for you to just plonk yourself on. I've found that they tend to be one-owner horses; they seem to enjoy that one special person.
They can often get themselves into trouble, when left to their own devices, as they are so intelligent (for horses anyway). One of mine resembles a veloceraptor, in so far as he will watch everything you do and as soon as you go away he will try to do whatever you were doing. Make sure you have good catches on your stable doors and field gates.
The Apps here are all great allrounders; not totally amazing at any one thing, but very good at most things. They are suitable for pretty much any and all disciplines and they love to learn and turn their hand to anything.
They tend to have fantastic memories and if you teach them something a year ago and then don't do it again for another year, they will remember - hence use caution when backing and bringing an App on - make a mistake and you could be long-suffering!
They are very kindly horses and very forgiving horses and once you have made a friend of them, they will be your friend for life.
OMG I was hoping it was a baby thing to be grown out of, as veloceraptor certainly describes Finn!!!! (Little sod stalks and bites me too - not out of nastiness, just naughtyness - he's a right cheeky devil!)
He picks up everything he can get his teeth into, in a 2 minute period he had a rug, a towel and a brush on the floor and both his and his mum's feed buckets were flung across the stable. You can't leave ANYTHING out near him or he'll have it and fling it...