the dun and grulla Paso Fino- photos wanted here

[echo]

Hello,
Per suggestion, here's a dun thread, for all of us who LUV those dorsal stripes and zebra markings! C'mon, don't be shy, I know some of you have duns and love to share, so let's stripe this place up a bit! :lol:
Here's my favorite dun, General.
General at Biltmore, my favorite trail buddy. On the trail is his favorite place :lol: :
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/22792General101993small.jpg

General's stripes, shown here in 2002 :
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/22792General061302small.jpg

General at Asheville 2003 (yes, some show horses make great trail horses) Photo by Darlene Wohlart
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/22792generalasheville06032.jpg

[Carol Nelson]

That is one gorgeous animal!!!

[Pasogirlz]

LOVE that color!!! Really unique color. Thanks for sharing Lori.

[PASOFAN]

Here is my boy storm, he has the dun stripe, frosted mane-tail, coon ears too.
http://www.2hottotrot.com/data/500/BEFORE_THE_RIDE.JPG

http://www.2hottotrot.com/data/500/DUN_STRIPE_STORM_SM_Z5.JPG

http://www.2hottotrot.com/data/500/ZEBRA_LEGS_FRONT_SM_Z5.JPG

http://www.2hottotrot.com/data/500/Storm_Fun.jpg

He is 3yrs old, has some ElPastor, Majestuoso, Hilaclias, Gallopa que tal in his bloodlines. He isnt registered yet, I was going to name him Majestico el Tormento when I did..

I wish I had more elegant pics of him like yours Echo! U have a very beautiful boy! 8-)

[PASOFAN]

Here is another pic I like of storm..
http://www.2hottotrot.com/data/500/medium/PRETTY_STORM.JPG

[appyday]

If Teki ends up looking like General I will be tickled...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y84/appyday/jan29200626.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y84/appyday/Jan28200655.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y84/appyday/Jan2820069.jpg

[darcy]

Pasofan, my mare is a Gallopa QT granddaughter thru her dam, with El Pastor and tons of Hilachas. What's Storm's whole name, I'd like to take a look at his pedigree and see how closely related they are...

Is it possible for there to be a dun factor that is very minimally expressed? My mare has some shadowing at her withers and where her leg black ends it's not very uniform, she has what I would call a counter shaded back but perhaps it is just a very faint dorsal stripe?? Her mom is solid bay, no color anywhere and her dad is grey... I'm breeding her to Lynn's grulla this spring and am hoping for a dun or grulla baby. I would absolutely love a light grulla like General!!

And Shelley, that Teki is going to be beautiful no matter what color she ends up being!!

[PasoPerson38]

oh you know who is a GOURGIOUS dun? Is that stallion that won pleasure stallions at Nationals...let me see if I can find a picture.....

[PASOFAN]

I have not register'ed storm.. But his Daddy is Campanero owned by my trainer registry #77653, his mama is Realita Del Prairie #82750

DebbieS boy Listo is storms full brother too! That is pretty cool!

I love general too, love that grullo dun coloring! Very very nice.. :D

[LynnG]

Both grulla Paso Finos and proud of it....... ;-)
(echo made me do it....go get new photos of my grulla girl :roll: )

Emperador La Estrella & daughter Espirita de Gracia ....
photos: Feb. 2, 2005 ~ age 24 (left) & Feb. 5, 2006 ~ age 7 months (right)

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/EmperadorAd2005.jpg http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/espirita/2_2_06espConf_LGweb.jpg


Feb. 5, 2006 new photos of Espirita de Gracia at 7+ months old ....

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/espirita/2_2_06espGait_LGweb.jpg http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/espirita/2_2_06espHeadNeck_LGweb.jpg


and Espirita at 5 weeks old ............

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/espirita/espiritaPicassaWalk7_30_05w.jpg


...posing with mom Picassa de Dulce at 1 week old....
http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/espirita/espiritaPicassaFaces7_4_05w.jpg


1st day born .....

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/espirita/espiritaGait6_28_05_2web.jpg


and night born...

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/espirita/espirita6_28_05_1web.jpg

[LynnG]

Another grulla Paso Fino FUN pics ...taken Feb. 5, 2006

Emperador La Estrella ... one month one day shy of his 25th Birthday

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/2_5_06empFace_LGweb.jpg
"A Paso Fino is worth more than riches."


http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/2_5_06empGallop3_LGwebFav.jpg
Paso poetry in motion

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/2_5_06empGallop4_LGwebFav.jpg
Want to have some Paso fun!

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/2_5_06empGallop2_LGweb.jpg
Fly with the wind!

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/2_5_06empGallop1_LGweb.jpg
Life is just grand at 25!

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/2_5_06empManeFly_LGweb.jpg
Easy, breezy, beautiful Emperador La Estrella!

[appyday]

Lynn great pics...your 7 mo old looks super...I hope mine look like that by spring..I love your little Ethiopian child too...

[echo]

Great photos, Lynn, thanks for sharing!! I really like the second photo, the one of Emperador running, just gorgeous! I was beginning to wonder if I was going to have to start calling names to get you to post :lol: I know at least 3 more around here, don't make me call names motorgypsies, Kerry, and Jeany! 8-)
Thank you all for the compliments on General. Storm and Teki are both very handsome! Pasofan, you know about the reduced registration fee window from PFHA, right? If not, let me know and I'll dig up the info and send it to you.
Let's have some more, I never tire of those "racing stripes" :D

[Kerry W]

Posting a couple for Stella...

Appasionata del Reino
Grulla mare...so dark you have to see her in person to see her dorsal, at the RIGHT time of year. :D
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/73495appasionata.jpg

Rita del Trebol
Buckskin/dun
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/55280ritarear_sm.jpg

[appyday]

I love that last one

[CarolU]

Roseira de Fe...born a RED dun (and she was supposed to STAY that way), but changed into a Peanut Butter dun. (very naughty girl!)

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/23115RosiePortraitSmall.jpg

She also has leg and shoulder bars, but you can't see them in this picture.

[Kerry W]

Gee Carol..I saw the most lovely red dun filly a couple of months ago at Ali Casey's house...bet she'd let her go, if you twisted her arm hard enough. :lol: She had HONKING zebra stripes on the front and rear legs! :shock:

[appyday]

Carol that is a very pretty colored mare..

[PASOFAN]

Carol I too love her Peanut Butter Dun color! Very nice..

Emperador is just gorgeous! I absolutly love him.. Cant believe he is 25yrs, he looks so good!! :D

[LynnG]

PasoFan, Emperador is 25 next month, not 15....he has kids around age 20. I'll post some pics of my other duns later today. There's alot more duns out there too...echo, want ta dig them out .....

[appyday]

YES I knew he was 25 and he looks fabulous for his age..

[PASOFAN]

SORRY that was a typo, I knew he was 25yrs.. I will edit that..

He is still a looker for sure! :D

[SandyMM]

I have not register'ed storm..

Don't forget - PFHA has a 'special' coming up soon on 'overage' registrations that works out to about half-price... you can go on the website or check PFHW magazine for details. There is a very limited window of opportunity - you don't want to send in registration info too soon or too late. DNA kits take about 10 days to 2 weeks to process and need to be finished duringthe registration process - good luck if you decide to register Storm! :D

[darcy]

Pasofan, Storm's grandsire El Vicario Ltd is full-bro to my mare's dam Dea Valida Ltd. How cool is that!

[Blameitonbrio]

I will post some dun pictures later...we are still getting settled in!

[PASOFAN]

That IS cool!! Were family!lol ;-)

[DebbieS]

I have not register'ed storm.. But his Daddy is Campanero owned by my trainer registry #77653, his mama is Realita Del Prairie #82750

DebbieS boy Listo is storms full brother too! That is pretty cool!

I love general too, love that grullo dun coloring! Very very nice.. :D

Listo is Storm's half brother (same dam). Listo's sire is Ultra Estaban (sired by Pegasus Estaban).

Pasofan, guess what? I got an email from Leslie in ND. She just got DNA tests back on a mare of hers. Red's previous owner did the stallion report, indicating Red (Campanero) was the sire. Well, DNA says Listo is the sire. Prev owner won't sign ammended report. Bummer for her, huh? So, goes to show you, with that lady, you never know.....

[gcfpaso]

http://www.grovecreekfarm.com/offsite/unacarabonita.jpg

[CarolU]

Gee Carol..I saw the most lovely red dun filly a couple of months ago at Ali Casey's house...bet she'd let her go, if you twisted her arm hard enough. :lol: She had HONKING zebra stripes on the front and rear legs! :shock:

You're a mean mean woman Kerry!

[Kerry W]

Awwwwww! C'mon! I DID think of you when I saw her...always do when I see a red dun. What would be MEAN would be to tell you those stripes were as wide as your big toe (which they were!) :twisted:

[CarolU]

Carol that is a very pretty colored mare..

Thank you Shelley. At least SOME friends know how to be nice! :roll:

Rosie must have recessive red-head genes...she's VERY red-headish. Maybe they're all in the racing stripe (or is it an honery streak? ;-) )

Oh yeah... :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: Raspberrys to Kerry

[Kerry W]

:hug Aww...you know I love Rosie too! All of them actually. We like "like type". :D

[PASOFAN]

Listo is Storm's half brother (same dam). Listo's sire is Ultra Estaban (sired by Pegasus Estaban).
..[/quote]

Sorry DebbieS, My bad. For some reason I had it in my head he was a full brother... sorry..lol

Echo just posted about the PFHA reduced fees, I can now afford ot register storm! BUT I still have to be sure Cindy filed that stud report.. Also I have to figure out this DNA thing, says all 3 have to be tested. Dont know how I am gonna get his Mama's dna??? ANYWAY..

Say is the previouse owner that same person who owned storm from SD? If so I may be outta luck too..

How do you search for a stud report? I have no idea if the filed one for Campanero having storm w/Realita...

But that is very interesting have Listo as a the daddy! Do you know of anyothers?

[Kerry W]

His dam's DNA should be on file, as she has other registered offspring. :D

[Blameitonbrio]

OK, sorry it took so long, but we are in the process of settling in and I haven't had a chance to grab the camera! Here are some pictures taken today of Marisa and Extasis. You can see they have the leg stripes, dorsal strip and cross over the withers. Extasis is darker than Marisa, and she has pretty dapples in her coat that show in the right light.

Here you can see the cross over her withers and the dapples in her coat.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/Danceswlabs/duns7.jpg

Here are their dorsal stripes.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/Danceswlabs/duns6.jpg

Here are Extasis' leg stripes.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/Danceswlabs/duns4.jpg

Extasis

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/Danceswlabs/duns3.jpg

Marisa and Extasis

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/Danceswlabs/duns1.jpg

[LynnG]

They look GOOD Jeany....nice pics too!!! and everyone's ears are up! Espirita is missing her bro, especially at night. I'll see if I can post some pics of mama Maja.

[Blameitonbrio]

I think that top picture of Marisa looks a lot like Maja, don't you?

Their "hunger strike" is over now. It's a good thing they are not political activists, because they are not very good at hunger strikes! :lol:

[LynnG]

Here is Beech Tree Majatisa (mother to the two above Marisa and Extasis in Jeany's post)

zebra dun all the way.........
http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/extasis/extasismaja1stdayperfect.jpg
Maja shown with baby colt Extasis in 2005

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/extasis/extasismaja1stdayBehinds.jpg
Maja and ET (Extasis)

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/maja/majaLynfair.jpg
Maja and Lynn at the NC State Fair Show for Country Pleasure

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/maja/lynnATTbridge04web.jpg
Maja and Lynn on the American Tobacco Trail at a bridge crossing

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/marisa/majamarisajodie04.jpg
Maja and Marisa with my niece Jodie. My nieces and nephews were always asking me "How is Marisa doing?" when I would see them....

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/maja/zebradunyearling2.gif
Maja after I got her as a yearling in 1998

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/marisa/marisaconfb1wkweb.jpg
Marisa at 1 week old

[LynnG]

a few more duns and grullas ...... from my private collection 8-)

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/cassieta/cassiePastureYellowFlowers.jpg
Caballos Cassietta ... aka Cassie at Gracewood
Galante LaCE x Messalina. She's due to foal this month to grulla man Emperador

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/arianna/ariannaDorsal5_5_04.jpg
Here's the red "butt" girl with her dorsal ... Arianna de Dixieland
Marques de Sol Reye x Rufina de Rancho Blanco (dun). She has a shoulder bar too. She's due next month to grulla man E. E's dam is regsitered as chestnut also, out of a zebra peanut butter dun mare Corveta que tal

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/picassa/picassaLeftSide10_04web.jpg
Here's Picassa de Dulce... though bay she has a distinct dorsal which you can see a little bit of here. Picassa is Espirita's (grulla filly) dam, so Picassa passed a dun gene to E's black/grulla gene.

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/miaventura/miaWalkweb.jpg
Miaventura... though you can't see it here. She is registered with a dorsal marking and when she is shed out you can see it faintly under the gray. She is by a Lunares son (dun factor) out of a black mare... you can imagine the color possibilities with Emperador?! Mia had a buckskin (dun) filly with primitive markings also.

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/spiritside7_04.jpg
Espirit de Davidson ... a dun Emperador daughter with Mar de Plata, Resorte IV, Ejemplo breeding on the dam's side. She lives in Lenoir, NC. Shown as a yearling. I saw her when she was a baby when I went to first look at Emperador..and really liked her then and as yearling too...I would have brought her home.

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/emperador/corrinaside7_04.jpg
This is Karena de Blancheland as a yearling. She is also an E daughter out of a Springtime Radiante mare, also Nevado, Monarca, Ensueno, Hilaches breeding thru dam. She's in the Lenoir NC area.

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/gallery/almirantefront.gif
My mare Insignia de Gracia (bay with dorsal) and her grulla colt Teson de Gracia by Ponderosa Coloso (black)

Okay that's all my grullas/duns for now I have pics of...... :!: :shock: echo started it......she was going to come after me with a shotgun if I didn't post some dun pics![/img]

[CarolU]

BTW - Marisa is ANOTHER born red-head who should have stayed that way! LOL

She really was and is a perfect filly. You are very lucky Jeany, you will really enjoy that young lady. If I had space, she'd be part of my collection. I fell in love with her in Lynn's early photos, and no reason to change now, she's beautiful.

[jan k]

Here are the dun/buckskins that we have had over the years


This is Nina as a foal


http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/54363Nina.jpg

[jan k]

And, Nina as a yearling:

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/54363NinaSm.JPG

[jan k]

And this is La Nanne with my nephew, Fox

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/54363Fox-med.JPG

I don't know why I can get this to post correctly. Any suggestions.

[jan k]

This is Isabella

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/54363Issy1205.jpg

[jan k]

and Natasha

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/54363Pix2004_194.jpg

[jan k]

And Brad.

Cindy, you gave Brad the A/O Pleasure Gelding Championship this weekend at Springfield, MO.

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/54363Senero.JPG

[Blameitonbrio]

BTW - Marisa is ANOTHER born red-head who should have stayed that way! LOL

She really was and is a perfect filly. You are very lucky Jeany, you will really enjoy that young lady. If I had space, she'd be part of my collection. I fell in love with her in Lynn's early photos, and no reason to change now, she's beautiful.

Thanks Carol. I fell in love with her the first time I met her, because she is such a sweet thang!

She is nervous and settling in right now, and she looks at me like, "How could you take me from my mama?" I think she is ticked off at me! :roll But she loves to follow Grayson (Nisharox) around the paddock!

[DebbieS]

Echo just posted about the PFHA reduced fees, I can now afford ot register storm! BUT I still have to be sure Cindy filed that stud report.. Also I have to figure out this DNA thing, says all 3 have to be tested. Dont know how I am gonna get his Mama's dna??? ANYWAY..

Say is the previouse owner that same person who owned storm from SD? If so I may be outta luck too..

How do you search for a stud report? I have no idea if the filed one for Campanero having storm w/Realita...

But that is very interesting have Listo as a the daddy! Do you know of anyothers?

Leslie said Listo was bred to 8-10 mares when he was at her farm.

When Cindy had them all the studs/mares ran together, you know. So, Cindy probably never knew for sure who was bred to who. Realita passed away last November during pregnancy - very sad. Maybe you could post your question on the Chat Forum, someone might know how to help. I could also give you Leslie's email address in ND. She knows alot about our horses. She has a palomino mare sired by Listo too.

[PASOFAN]

DebbieS:
I didnt know Realita passed, that is sad.. I spoke w/Cindy's sister who handeled all the sales, and storm yesterday.. She never did file the stud report, but promises to do it this month, well see..

That is just crazy to have all the studs and mares running together! From little I know Cindy wasnt in a good medical state of mind either.. So sad.. I dont even have a pic of Realita.. :cry:

I found out, since Campanero and Realita were both registered the DNA is on file so I just need to send storms in w/the package.. As long as that stud report gets filed.. anyway..

Jan K: Your horses are beautiful! I love the action pic on the sounding board! Very neat.. 8-)

[jan k]

Thank you, Pasofan. Brad is my favorite, maybe because you never know what he is going to do. When he is good, he is very,very good. But, when he is bad he is horrid :D

[sporthorse]

Shown here with his next oldest sibling big sis Pocita (dam of our palamino) is our youngest Leo de Vez offspring( foaled JUN,03) coming three year old =Yoda Eclipsis Sinsonte =grullo?dunskin?lobo dun?This is last years coat he is even more dramatic now , the next pic I post is as weanling, then third pic is Obi ,Zahen CorALeo Sinsonte=Leo's grandson (as just then yearling)& two year old Yoda.This weekend I will update with a this years current winter coat.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b110/vistalargo2000/88cac641.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b110/vistalargo2000/ToBeSorted072.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b110/vistalargo2000/34ffbd3e.jpg

[hast]

Here's my grulla, Michico, registered as Ricardo KM.

Here is his summer coat... very sun bleached here in Florida.

http://elaine.midgaard.us/Michico/hagen-aug-03/400/IMG_1866.JPG.400.jpg

Here is his fall coat, before the sun has bleached and before the winter coat has come in

http://elaine.midgaard.us/Misc-size/grulla.jpg

[motorgypsy]

You have all posted such gorgeous pictures of the "tabbies of the horse clan" There's something about them that makes us want to just sit and look at them for hours. The colors remind us of shifting desert sands and waves on a stormy ocean. Living works of art
Magnifico de Besilu AKA Sultan - silver slate grulla dun

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/sultansniff.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/CRW_1608copyearstrimmedabit.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/CRW_1693.jpg

Ayer's SloughP - florida Cracker horse - peanut butter dun

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/CRW_1705.jpg

[motorgypsy]

A few more duns

Brilliant Bill's Amulet buckskin colored dun

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/IM000419a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/brilliantjuly11.jpg

Vanidosa (linda) brown pointed buckskin colored dun - 23 years old, grandmother of Sultan and great grandmother of Brilliant

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/IM000546a.jpg

[PASOFAN]

MotorG: if you ever get tired of your paso's just send them up here, u have some of the most beautiful paso's I have seen, plus I Darlene W has caputred them so perfectly.. I just love your Dun's and Grulla's! WOW.

Everyone who posted, we sure have some wonderful color'd paso dont we. We are all so very lucky! ;-)

[motorgypsy]

Thansk!!! We are all sooo lucky that's for sure!!!

[LynnG]

Heres' some dun links to dun morgans if you want to see the colors (Its pretty rare in Morgans):

http://colormorgans.tripod.com/dun.htm
Be sure to scroll down and see the perlino-dun...

another:
http://www.duncentralstation.com/

http://www.duncentralstation.com/CrossRanchFalseDuns.html
research on false duns... not real duns. All dun horses have to have at least one dun parent.

good dun color shades guide
http://www.duncentralstation.com/ShadesOfDun.html

[LynnG]

..and the paso fino equivalent:
can you identify these paso finos.....
http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/dunpasofinos/dunmarkings.html :?: :twisted:

[Beth Worden]

OK - here ya go. Perfecto Mundo: dorsal, leg bars, frosted mane and tail, 4 white socks with ermine spots in all, dapples, smut on shoulder and some kind of black/brown (match his dorsal) dots along either side of his spine? - wheeew. Oh yes, I'm braggin' LOL

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/pasobeth/Perfecto/Perfectoright.jpg

[jan k]

Beth, he is gorgeous. His name truly fits him.

[PASOFAN]

Great morgan links! pretty!!!

SportHorse: I just love that red tint in the mane and tail. very elegant and exciting looking.. 8-)

[Beth Worden]

Thank you, Jan. I cannot take credit for breeding him. I bought him at 4 months old from Laura York in Canada. Laura gave him the name. I guess I will make an honest horse of him and get his paperwork in. I have all the stuff and just ordered a DNA kit, so he will be papered. Seems stupid on a gelding, but it won't get any cheaper, I guess. Sire is Juan Jose Favorito x Gray Barn Corveta. BTW - Fran Sullivan owns his sister and she is for sale. She is a dark grulla-ish with the same lovely body!

[Blameitonbrio]

Well Beth, I had a friend once tell me, "It ain't bragging if it's really true." He is a hunk, and I love his eyes! Of course, that butt is awesome too!

[paintedhorizon]

Here are more pics of Stella's mare, Rita Del Trebol

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/jklawitter/Paso%20Fino/100_5217.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/jklawitter/Paso%20Fino/100_5408.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/jklawitter/Paso%20Fino/100_5222.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/jklawitter/Paso%20Fino/100_5221.jpg

Here is Kerry's mare Aggie
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/jklawitter/Paso%20Fino/Aggie.jpg

[Beth Worden]

Painted...Is Rita a dun going grey? Will she grey - have a grey parent? She is a beautiful color.

[Kerry W]

Painted...Is Rita a dun going grey? Will she grey - have a grey parent? She is a beautiful color.

I'm not PH, but Rita's sire El Trebol is a grey son of Caruso de la Ate (full brother of Contrapunto). Rita's dam is chestnut, I believe...or MAYBE red dun, as she has Lunares in her lines. Rita is buckskin/dun that is greying. :D

[motorgypsy]

Regarding ear markings several of our duns have very visibly striped ears with the tips dark, a light stripe and then another dark stripe. I'll try to get pictures of them. Dark edging is not particularly characteristic of duns. You also get frosting on true buckskins. The mane shading on a dun is quite different from frosting on a buckskin which is silver in color. Dun mane shading is usually several colors and doesn't run all the way down the mane. It is not silver in color but is a lighter shade of the base coat almost matching the body coat. It's also more prominant in certain parts of the the mane. To be sure you have shading and not just sun bleaching flip the mane over and look at the underside. That's where the true shading will show up. For example our grulla stallion has lavender gray shading in parts on his black mane that matches his coat color.

[LynnG]

I'm not sure whether its considered primitive, as I have seen some young yearlings like this.. a long tuft of hair running under the belly like where a dorsal would be. You can often see in the duns/grullas the darker dorsal stripe running down thru the tail, which in effect the same thru the mane with lighter hairs top and bottom.
My filly Espirita is like this with about 2-3" of hair tuft down the middle of her underside; you can rather see the extra belly hair "mohawk" here at an angle behind her left front leg.
http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/espirita/2_2_06espConf_LGweb.jpg

[motorgypsy]

Lynn there are two sets of "dun ears" on the general chit chat board for you.

Those belly hairs are called a ventral mane and are pretty rare from what I read. I've never seen a picture of it. Really neat!!

[Carol Nelson]

Hmmm...I have two fillies that have the ventral mane? So exactly what does "primitive" mean in this context???

[Barbwire]

Well, he ain't a Paso, but here's a picture of Pershing's Samule Adams, a mule I used to own. He was a weanling here. His mom was an appaloosa and his dad was a large standard jack.

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/65061back_side_BB.jpg

[Lynn]

Carol, MG I remember seeing a picture of one of Terry Wallace's horses having a vetral mane also.

[RVF_Pasos]

Oooo... so many beautiful horses! I love everyone’s pictures. :D

Our stallion, Cielo Grande Cristobalito (“Cristo” for short), is a unique color. I’d say he’s a sooty dun, but I’m not that knowledgeable in the color department. He has more of a counter-shading then a dorsal stripe, but he does have dark marks at his withers. He is definitely not grullo, so we just call him a dun or sooty dun. The photos shown here are from last spring and he looks very scrawny. He is now a bit darker and has also visibly filled out. He is looking “grown-up.” I refuse to take my camera out into the below 0-degree weather to get some current photos, so these old ones will have to do for now. :smile:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c353/RVF_Pasos/Pasos/02.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c353/RVF_Pasos/Pasos/03.jpg


This is Cristo’s first foal, Angelita de Cazadora, pictured as a yearling. We do not own her, but I just had to post her picture. She is also a unique color, similar to our stallion’s. Unlike his, her dorsal stripe is clearly visible. I suppose I would consider her a sooty dun.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c353/RVF_Pasos/Pasos/Angelita.jpg

[sporthorse]

thank you paso fan(but I think the reddish is sun bleaching the black hair). Yoda is a real charactar he is as exciting as his markings and the sun does make his mane which already has several colors look cool. Beth JJFavorito's dam, Fra-Lin Azahar is and Lindsay's first farm's first offspring she sold when she was a breeder for a business & sister of our stallion Leo.

[DebJ]

Look on Lynn's web page for duns, --my mare, Ladybug, is on that page, the third group of pics down, about the dorsal stripes and she is the red dun with the blue halter on. Her grandparents are Favorito que tal and Plebeyo. Seems a number of duns come from Plebeyo's side. Stella has Ladybug's mom. :) The girl in my avatar is her baby, Lightningbug. She is 2 1/2 yrs. old and is a bay dun. I have to update my pics of them and will try to post later this week. Been a bit cold here the past few days lol. Ladybug will be 8yrs. old the end of March.
Everyone has such beautiful horses, aren't duns one of the more fascinating colors?

[PASOFAN]

RVF Paso's: Nice pics! Yes I would say Sooty dun too. Come one now, u gotta get us winter pics!!lol Both your horses are lookers, but then again I love duns all the way around!!' Welcome to the boards!! :D

[Camilla]

Thanks everyone for posting the beautiful dun/grulla pics!
Echo, General is gorgeous... how is that other grulla girl we all love doing? SHe must be getting near foaling... When is she due?

http://finavistafarm.ca/Picaboo-ocala-hs_170x188.jpg

Kyle, those pics of your stallion are just lovely! He is such a looker...

Lynn G., loved all the pics... you've got quite a dun private collection... I just bought 2 grulla mares from Kentucky that I gather you checked out, too. I have not seen them yet (except in bad pics) and they don't arrive for a couple more weeks. One is in foal and usually has grullas, so I may have a grulla baby for Spring pics time!

I have to see if I can figure out how to post pics here...
Here is some dun pics of sweet Dante (now in England with Wendy J).

http://finavistafarm.ca/Dante-head-JG-sm_129x230_99x177.jpg
http://finavistafarm.ca/Dante-5-sm_229x170_170x126.jpg

[LynnG]

what shade of dun do you think Marietta will shed out to be?
http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/mariela/2_28_06marielaBody2.jpg
Marietta at 8 days old
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Here are some of my other dun foal colors and later on:
http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/extasis/extasisStandLook4_30_05web.jpg
Extasis at 6 days old

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/extasis/jeanyETFull12_23_05web.jpg
Extasis at 8 months old

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http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/marisa/marisaconf1wkweb.jpg
Marisa at 7 days old

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/marisa/marisaSide7_30_05web.jpg
Marisa at 2 years old

[LynnG]

more foal color comparisons
http://members.aol.com/battyatty/bluedun.jpg
http://members.aol.com/battyatty/bluedun.jpg


http://www.kigerbrandinc.com/horses/94_2.jpg
this one has a claybank dun parent, and they are hoping he will be that color (Kiger Mustang pic)

here are shades of claybank duns
http://www.kigers.com/silverado2.jpg
The Kiger stallion Silverado

and here is a claybank daughter of Silverado being raffled
http://www.kigers.com/raffle%20filly_files/Quail%20filly1.jpg

[LynnG]

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/cassieta/4_10_06CassieSide.jpg

Here's a new grulla paso fino pic from today 4-10-06

Caballos Cassietta
Galante LaCE x Mesalina

Cassie was 17 years old on 4-1-06. She is dam to Beth W's new Coloso filly Tiadora and also Gracewood's Marietta de Gracia shown in buff but shedding out very dark on her face to a silver grulla(?)

[Serendipity]

Heres Calco dun with all black points,dorsel,bars ,and tiger marks

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/leahbrat/DSC01466.jpg

[echo]

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/22792GeneralLori7252-med.gif
me and General

(bumping for Sharon)

[motorgypsy]

Brilliant - a very muddy two year old golden buckskin colored dun

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/motorgypsy/IMG_1563a.jpg

[Minouri]

I love that picture! It looks like he's saying....come here and look at this.

[Carol Nelson]

Okie, dokie....how's about a homozygous, smutty-dun, sooty-dun, grulla PINTO Paso Fino with secondary spots....heck I don't know WHAT color she is, but it's our Canela de Sangria, Santana del Cardo daughter.

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931Canela2.JPG.jpg

But Tami Pinell's seen her in person and says she's a dun so I'll go with that...in the winter or when she's pregnant, she darkens to a deep grulla...WITH the mask...and a dorsal stripe just above her tail. ;-)

[LynnG]

MARIETTA DE GRACIA
Grulla Sire x Grulla Dam

Then as an 8 day baby (March 2006)
DUN or GRULLA?

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/mariela/2_28_06marielaBody2.jpg

Now at 10 months old with winter fuzzies starting (October 2006)
LIGHT GRULLA!

http://geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/marietta/10_21_06MariettaFallPortrait.jpg

[Carol Nelson]

Dang it...see...Lynn THAT's the color Canela looks...she has the dark face, darker than her body spots...even down to the reddish highlights in her mane and the light ear hairs, but the dark, dark dorsal stripe. I STILL think she's more a grulla than a dun. :roll:
(a QH breeder than I know came to the farm one day ...and said, "Hey, when did SHE change to grulla???)
I give up! :roll: ;-) :lol:

[LynnG]

Carol...
Marietta has a bluish cast to her winter fuzzies hair; you don't see that in the photo with the sun hitting her.... Plus she has two grulla parents, which odds are will prduce grulla! Emperador did have a black offspring though when crossed on a gulla before I got him...not this mare though. He had a black colt this year crossed on a strong zebra dun.... ya just never know what color might pop out. The zebra dun's dam was grulla too.

[TrueStepPaso]

Ooooh, Carol, she's a cuuutie! :D I love weird colors like that on a Pinto...

[Mellifluous]

Dang it...see...Lynn THAT's the color Canela looks...she has the dark face, darker than her body spots...even down to the reddish highlights in her mane and the light ear hairs, but the dark, dark dorsal stripe. I STILL think she's more a grulla than a dun. :roll:
(a QH breeder than I know came to the farm one day ...and said, "Hey, when did SHE change to grulla???)
I give up! :roll: ;-) :lol:


A grulla is a dun - it the expression of the dun gene on a black horse. A grulla is a black dun horse, there are also bay duns and chestnut duns.

http://www.equinecolor.com/dun.html

[Carol Nelson]

So it's not unusual that she should change colors then...and sometimes be one or the other???
Thanks, TrueStep! (She's got blue eyes, too! ;-) :smile: )

[Helene]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v344/mackey6023/IMG_0783.jpg


Let's get some more dun horse pictures....This is "Gaitaway Chinook", almost three now ....

[Misssc]

Here is my dun Paso, El Concerto del Corazon. This was made back in the summer, the horse on the right is my Peruvian Paso colt, the bay horse in the back is Concerto's half brother. Concerto's dun is coming through his grullo sire El Zafiro de Trillador.
http://www.borogove.net/horsepics/colts-share.jpg

[ErinC]

nice looking horses, I love the smut color on that other horses face it makes him look like he has make up on
NICE ;-)

[Misssc]

Thank you :D

"Kelpie" is a very odd color. You can see what he looked like as a newborn fresh out of the oven in my user pic. I love that little horse so much he may get to keep his spare parts ;-)

[Carol Nelson]

Nice colt!!
This is making me think hard about my Devante. I'm wondering if he is a dun...he has the leg barring, the dark dorsal stripe, and he's about the same color as your colt there. I'll have to get some new photos...

[motorgypsy]

OHHHH such gorgeous horses!!!! I admit it. I'm addicted to duns. I can just sit and look at them all day. There is something about the color that is like the desert sands with sunlight and shadows creating multiple patterns that hypnotize and tranquilize. AHHHHHHHH!!!