We purchased Little Star Sparkling as a three year old from Sharon Scheikofsky of  Caballos de Destino. The story of Little Star's birth is an unusual one. She was born at the original home of the Horse of the Americas, The Wild Horse Research Farm in  Porterville, CA. The ranch consisted of horses that SMR and HOA founder Bob Brislawn had gathered to study and preserve. Each stallion ran with his own individual band of mares. Little Star's dam, Little Thing, belonged to the stallion Four Lane. However, another stallion Tiger Eye, was a crafty one. He stole Little Thing away from Four Lane! Four Lane was eventually reunited with his mare but she was already in foal to Tiger Eye.