VERY cool!
This is very cool.
I also just saw in person a PRE 2013 Colt that is Black with two blue eyes no white on the head at all. The breeder was not able to say what the cause was. I would post pics but she hasent posted any on her web site I think shes still trying to decide what to do with himā¦
He doesnāt look like an Andalusian to me. (Not saying he isnāt; just that he isnāt type-y.) And why didnāt they give us a close up that showed his green eyes?
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The article said at the end that his eyes have darkened to hazel. We had a Paso Fino mare, back when, who was a chestnut roan with hazel eyes, as was her sire. I understand this isnāt uncommon with the Puerto Rican lines.
I have a pony that color minus the green eyes. I think sheās just a dun though. But she is the prettiest peanutbutter pie color.
Andalusians arenāt rare. I wouldnāt call 185,000 world-wide ārareā. I guess to each his own, but he looks kind of ugly to meā¦even the color isnāt very attractive (to me)ā¦but again, whatever floats your boatā¦
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Keep thinking of that Johnny Cash song, Tennessee Stud,
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
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He doesnāt look like an Andalusian to me. (Not saying he isnāt; just that he isnāt type-y.) And why didnāt they give us a close up that showed his green eyes?[/QUOTE]
Heās a yearling. Iāll give him the benefit of the doubt because I think he still has a lot of growing up to do. My weanlings are entering the āquick, hide it behind the barnā phase. Iāll bring them back out again when theyāre 2 and a half.
That said, if he doesnāt mature into a good looking adult, majikal color or not, I hope sheāll geld him!
I LOVE unique colors - but usually when I see the colors my mind immediately assumes that theyāve sacrificed elsewhere to get that color and I go looking for flaws. Is it fair? I donāt know. It just is what it isā¦ And maybe some day Iāll get up the nerve to have the pretty bucksin Iāve always fantasized about but for now thatās my dirty little secret.
Agreed though that calling Andalusians a rare breed is quite a stretch. I mean in the UK you can in theory drive to Spain in a (very long) day where theyāre a dime a dozen - I mean literally the riding schools use them like we use Quarter Horses!
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Heās a yearling. Iāll give him the benefit of the doubt because I think he still has a lot of growing up to do. My weanlings are entering the āquick, hide it behind the barnā phase. Iāll bring them back out again when theyāre 2 and a half.
That said, if he doesnāt mature into a good looking adult, majikal color or not, I hope sheāll geld him!
I LOVE unique colors - but usually when I see the colors my mind immediately assumes that theyāve sacrificed elsewhere to get that color and I go looking for flaws. Is it fair? I donāt know. It just is what it isā¦ And maybe some day Iāll get up the nerve to have the pretty bucksin Iāve always fantasized about but for now thatās my dirty little secret.
Agreed though that calling Andalusians a rare breed is quite a stretch. I mean in the UK you can in theory drive to Spain in a (very long) day where theyāre a dime a dozen - I mean literally the riding schools use them like we use Quarter Horses![/QUOTE]
Yeah, heās only 18 mos old in the pic, so he is at one of his ugliest stages. I just donāt find the color particularly appealing.
As far as ārareā goes, I think at last count there are only 7000 Akhal Tekes in the world and 2/3rds of those are in Russia. Now THAT is rareā¦I think there are less than 1000 in the States.
I believe he is a āchampagneāā¦they often have green eyes. Andys go through a bit of a strange period at his ageā¦lol.
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Some of the dilutes are born with very light colored eyes that do darken as they mature. I had a Lusitano/Friesian cross colt a few years ago whose eyes were very light hazel - they darkened to regular brown when he was about a year old. My Lusitano cross colt this year (also a dilute) had almost blue eyes that are brown now. I think it is a dilute thing that they have lighter eyes?
He does look like a fairly typical long yearling Andy - they tend to be quite fugly! I wouldnāt evaluate the quality of him until heās 3 - then agree, if it is JUST color, bottom brain surgery :lol:
IDK to me, he looks like an Andalusian and looks JUST like a long yearling looks like. In the awkward growth stage. I would have loved to see pics of his eyesā¦ I always though green eyes were a myth!
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Slightly OT, but I have a hard time understanding how grammar and syntax like this are allowed in any sort of news article:
āBorn in March last year, Peal of Peace, is known as Oro which means gold in Spanish,where the breed originally comes from.ā
I canāt say Iāve ever heard PREs referred to as āPure Race Spanishā horses before, either.
How does this reporter have a job? :lol:
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Slightly OT, but I have a hard time understanding how grammar and syntax like this are allowed in any sort of news article:
āBorn in March last year, Peal of Peace, is known as Oro which means gold in Spanish,where the breed originally comes from.ā
I canāt say Iāve ever heard PREs referred to as āPure Race Spanishā horses before, either.
How does this reporter have a job? :lol:[/QUOTE]
The writing in the article is atrocious. This sentence makes me cringe from a syntax perspective AND from a perspective of understanding and properly reporting the subject matter: "Pearl of Peace is doubly rare as thanks to a genetic quirk he has two copies of the āpearlā colour gene, one from both his mother and father Pearl of Peace
Sorry. In my mind, a genetic quirk is a mutation, not a simple inheritance of a gene.
Probably found that PRE stands for Pura Raza EspaƱola and looked up each word in a dictionary.
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He looks like a champagne to me as well. My mare is a champagne and has the same color eyes he does, although I believe that herās started off blue. Many champagnes also have the sheen that this guy does. Itās difficult to tell in the pictures if he has the mottled skin around his nose that champagnes have.
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I believe he is a āchampagneāā¦they often have green eyes. Andys go through a bit of a strange period at his ageā¦lol.[/QUOTE]
Iām not sure why you think heās champagne? 
The owner clearly says the mare is hetero for pearl, and she sought out a homozgyous pearl. This guy is very typical of PrlPrl on black.
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This is very cool.
I also just saw in person a PRE 2013 Colt that is Black with two blue eyes no white on the head at all. The breeder was not able to say what the cause was. I would post pics but she hasent posted any on her web site I think shes still trying to decide what to do with himā¦[/QUOTE]
That would be splash:). It is so cool how extreme the splash gene can really be. From looking like a can of paint was poured all over the top portion of the horse, but keeping the legs, underbelly, neck and usually most of the head/face, to only having blue eyes on solid body.
You have to post pics when you can!
Pearl mimics Champagne, but is much more difficult to bred on as one copy of it does not show any dilution. This gene does only show dilution in the moment when it is meeting another dilution or is homozygous for Pearl. And the write up is confusing I think, in fact he is a bay base color just with the black of it being homozygous. I do not really understand why there is such a hype about this colt as there are many Pearl PRE and he is not something special in my eyes. We do have a PRE breeder in Germany that has truly outstanding and beautiful horses of Pearl and Cream dilution. It is the Countess Giulia von Crailsheim with her Stud Farm at Schloss Amerang. Here is one of her two year old stallions and I hope that picture shows up: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=665247846853611&set=a.202440269801040.55701.167306629981071&type=1&theater¬if_t=photo_reply
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Slightly OT, but I have a hard time understanding how grammar and syntax like this are allowed in any sort of news article:
āBorn in March last year, Peal of Peace, is known as Oro which means gold in Spanish,where the breed originally comes from.ā
I canāt say Iāve ever heard PREs referred to as āPure Race Spanishā horses before, either.
How does this reporter have a job? :lol:[/QUOTE]
Itās the Daily Mail - they donāt do news articles !
