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All I can tell you is:
It’s my FAVORITE color.
AND
It’s the hardest to actually get.[/QUOTE]
This.
Jackson Bend is a very dark liver TB. He’s running in the G1 Forego H’cap at Saratoga on Saturday.
Jackson Bend is stunning!
I’m loving this thread! Wow! Lovely horses, everyone 
My faves, of course, are the Welsh ponies that RAGP posted Just WOW! Your dark dappled liver mare has a grey mane and tail, too! (though it appears to have darkened with age, which is very typical)
JB was right about my Fancy - she is a liver, not black silver dapple. When she was younger and had a truly silvery-white-ish mane and tail, with her chocolate coat, she could “pass” as a silver dapple. Definitey a “look alike”
But she is for sure a liver. And every year her mane and tail get darker - just more of a mixed mane and tail now.
Love that true liver TB, Jackson Bend. Wow!
Some of my favorite Livers are from the Nebo Calanog line. Gallod Replica is a very very dark liver too. Some nice “black chestnut” in those Welsh Cobs - very similar to the black chestnut Morgans!
Fancy That your mare looks quite similar in colour to my silver dapple pony (he’s haflinger/welsh)
I can’t help it … gotta show off my livers.
This is my warmblood mare, Ruby (can’t resist the brag, I think she’s basically the best horse in the world).
This is Ruby with her foal by Don Frederico at three days. He turned liver. And the same foal at 15 months … he is getting darker and darker, and is already a darker colour than his mother was at two. I’m looking forward to his winter coat coming off!
LOVE those Welshies! That Fanfair is some kinda gorgeous!
Madamlb, what foals have you got due this summer? it’s always interesting hear from another down-under breeder.
I don’t have ANYTHING due Kerole, which is a bit depressing, but thankfully all the friends/neighbours do so I can live vicariously. Thought about putting my Alabaster mare to Floriscount (because I have the semen) but then I started riding her and she’s too much fun … same with Ruby, who is also going well under saddle. Hopefully will breed Ruby and my Sir Donnerhall filly together in a couple of years, but the market is so crappy here at the moment that as much as it would be nice, I think it is sensible to wait.
What about you, and yay love other down under people on COTH, it’s such a knowledgeable forum
Wow in that last pic of the foal running with his mum, he totally looks bay. Crazy.
Madamlb - I know what you mean about the crappy market. It’s pretty depressing really. I have 3 due this season. The two Hanoverian mares are in foal to Furst Nymphenberg and Prestige VDL, and the show hack TB to Donnerubin for a pretty show horse type. I am only planning one breeding this year - my old Hano mare to Furstenball perhaps.
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Wow in that last pic of the foal running with his mum, he totally looks bay. Crazy.[/QUOTE]
If you only look at the body and mane, I agree But the legs are a dead giveaway that he’s red-based
I am loving all these photos. I feel like I haven’t seen that many liver chestnuts over the years. It definitely helped me stand out in the hunter ring amidst a sea of bays!
Here’s my boy after a bath. I was told he was dutch bred, but I have absolutely no idea how he is actually bred. I wish I knew- he has the most unique personality. I love him to pieces!
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff462/Gemstone221/617b890b.jpg
I have two flaxen purebred Arabian dark chestnuts.
Here is Tikila Truffle, a 2010 filly. Both her parents are bay. The first photo is at age 2 and the others at age 1 and the last one is a yearling Arabian that I will breed her to in the future. I will also breed her to the colt’s sire. Her flaxen is fading but I will be breeding her to a flaxen who sires non-fading flaxens, so fingers crossed. It will be a few years, though. Here is her pedigree: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/tikila+truffle
This is my other purebred Arabian dark chestnut mare. Here is her pedigree: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/mc+geminis+shado.
She is the dam of the colt pictured above in the last photo. Her sire is also a dark flaxen chestnut.
The last photo show her in the top left. Below her is her sire as a yearling. The top right is the sire of her two foals. The bottom right is her second born colt.
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If you only look at the body and mane, I agree But the legs are a dead giveaway that he’s red-based :)[/QUOTE]
That was totally my mistake, I thought that one was his mum and he was the one behind. D’oh.
The liver arabians are very lovely.
My tb mare is a lovely dapple liver chestnut, that is probably why a dressage BN said she looked looked dutch and by Jazz.:lol:
Her mother was red chestnut, but when she was pregnant, her color turned to mottled liver color. I assume her color was affected by the liver foal’s hormones while inside her?
The color of the foal has nothing to do with any changes in the mare’s coat
My mare dapples in the Fall, but she had NEVER dappled to the extent she did the Fall she was pregnant. She did not dapple to that extent the next Fall either. This will be Fall #2 after foaling, so it will be interesting to see what she does.
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The liver arabians are very lovely.[/QUOTE]
Thanks;) Hopefully I will have some foals that are chocolate chestnuts with white manes and tails. I will also show the younger mare, Tikila Truffle, in sport horse classes even though she is bred to be a race horse.
