jungle_cat
Posted : 3/19/2013 10:28:12 AM
His color is up for debate (been discussed quite a bit on other forums) and I'm planning to send in a sample for DNA testing. I love dark liver chestnut and that is what I thought when I first saw him at the adoption. Its hard to see in these pictures but his eyes are quite light and more of a dark amber - like what you sometimes fine with horses carrying a single cream gene, and after seeing him shed through the seasons - I am now highly suspicious of him being a smokey black. He sheds in pitch black, but fades so easily and that would explain that. And his eye color matches another smokey I know and a buckskin. So I am thinking of testing him for the cream gene.
Yes - he has a brand and its hidden under his thick mane. Its not very clear either. Its a white blur in his winter coat and you can some-what make out the symbols in his summer coat.
HS - Yes, I love his neck! You should see him move - he just naturally holds that head on the verticle with a really pretty arch to his neck. His TIP trainer just loved it - but she is a dressage fanatic and I think she was seeing potential dressage propspect! LOL.
He is also very huggable.