Goffena Appaloosas History     We have been raising registered appaloosas since 1977 when we bought an appaloosa mare and stallion from Army Armstrong of Coffee Cup Appaloosas.  We then started to show and the quest was on for better halter horses.  We purchased Roman Duke in 1978 and he filled our trophy cases with wins in Colorado, Wyoming & Montana.  We soon were showing foals by Duke and winning with them.  We still have 2 granddaughters of him.  We then purchased a stallion from Sheldak Ranch named Mighty David.  We used him about 6 years and have retained 6 daughters in our brood mare band.  Next we traded Donna Fanyak out of her few-spot stallion we named Vigilante Mac.  He was out of her prized Victoreo.  He was the start of our Vigilante line we are using today.  We enjoyed 3 years of 100% color with Mac.  He was throwing beautiful foals with huge hips and wonderful dispositions, but his breeding career was cut short by a broken leg.  Right after he died we lost our prized show and brood mare Dandy Tommissy also, leaving us with Mac's last foal to raise an orphan.  This foal is Vigilante Justice and is our main herd sire today.  We also used & have retained breeding services to Silver Britches K., a few-spot also and a state halter champion himself.  We also used the stallions Vigilante Kid and B.C. Bright Tradition for 2 years while waiting for Justy to grow up.  We have raised most of our broodmares. A few years ago we started purchasing some breeding stock from Pat & Anne Gerhardt. As of July 2002 we have purchased or leased 8 Mighty Shield daughters. In 2002 we are starting to use Oreo Britches as our junior herd sire. Our son Curt & his wife Tania own some of our horses. Our son Craig maintains this website for us. Craig's wife Kisheena is just learning to ride this summer. Grandchildren, James, Lucas, Elizabeth, Isabel and Hannah are also learning to ride & seem to love it. We'll be filling the leadline classes in 2001.

Craig, Kisheena, Alan, Susan, Tania, James, and Curt

James, Luke, and Elizabeth Goffena Christmas 2001

Goffena Appaloosas Goals       Our goal is to raise quality registered appaloosa foals with disposition, comformation and color.  We hope these foals will go on to have the ability and looks to compete in halter or performance or just make a nice family or trail horse.  We do not advertise our stallions for outside breeding as we do not have the facilities for handling many outside mares.  We do take outside mares occasionally if we can work out a convenient time with the mare owner.  If you are interested in breeding contact us and we will see what we can do.

2004 Roundup Horse Show

After a long day at the button and bows rodeo 2007 |



This article was published about us in the Febuary 2008 Appaloosa Journal