Morgans and minis seem to like to hide Splash except for shocking blue eyes LOL
Are they yet another shade of blue?
They switch to amber-ish usually, yes? I didn’t clock that my mare’s eyes were actually amber until I realized she had other champagne characteristics.
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I guess since other people have posted there horses here’s my mare. Shes a QH with some white patterns going on other then rabicano I don’t know what is going on.
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They’re a blue-ish green-ish color at birth, and then yes, switches to amber as an adult
the bottom-heavy face white says splash (maybe others, but at least some Splash). The jagged front to the hind stockings suggests a White pattern
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I was thinking splash too. It’s a shame I don’t have a single picture of her sire or dam. She’s also got white spots down the center of her belly
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Not to go off topic here, but WOW! Look at Matilda! 
You should post one of her “before” pictures here because you and your son deserve all the recognition for what you’ve done to get her looking the way she does now.
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They are Royal Blue Boon bred, sometimes through Pepto but other times not.
The UC Davis website makes it seem like there is a specific roan gene they test for and that they can test multiple different breeds for it.
https://vgl.ucdavis.edu/test/roan
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Where would you go with this mare (both parents registered POAs; she does not have enough APP char. to be registered herself):
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Ooooo is she brindle ??? What a beauty !!!
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She is but I don’t know where it came from! What causes brindling?
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Brindle is pretty rare in horses. What that one has is more likely a skewed color pattern. It would be interesting to test her for Roan, though that usually causes white brindle marks
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Grandam on the dam side was a chestnut w/ snowflake pattern. I want to say the dam was Dun or buckskin, blanket with spots. Sire line was palomino leopard. I wish I could be more precise; this picture is about 12 years old and the pony moved on many years ago, but I was always fascinated by the brindle.
I do think she is one of the prettiest ponies I’ve seen in my life. Brindle markings appeared around age 4?
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She’s exquisite. Are brindles chimeras? I seem
To recall that.
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Very rarely are horses chimeras, and rarely among them do they cause brindling but yes, it happens. Dunbars Gold is probably the most famous
https://www.dunbarsgold.com/
Actual brindle - BR1 - is a coat texture gene, rather than a color gene. It does look like it’s a color gene, but it’s really not. Brindle phenotype from chimerism, or skewed color patterns like Roan and some White patterns, do change the color, but that’s not BR1 and isn’t heritable
It’s so complicated, right!? Roan usually puts white…. Can it put a darker color? Because she looks palomino with buckskin brindles.
As a lover of brindle dogs … I’ve had 5. I’ve always been fascinated by this coat color.
And it definitely seems unlikely to breed on … and very rare (in horses). So is it a genetic mutation ? Could it be environmental?
