Silver Dapple!!!

[Linda_D]

I saw my first silver dapple in the flesh yesterday --- I think! I was driving a backroad and came up on a pair of Amishmen doing some logging. At first I thought the horse was a draft, but as I got closer, he looked to be a Morgan or maybe a Morgan cross. He was definitely NOT a draft breed.

I didn't have my camera with me, and anyway, the Amish don't like to have you take pix of them, so I didn't get a picture, but the horse was liver colored -- not liver chestnut, but liver colored like a German Shorthaired Pointer's brown spots. He also had a wonderful cream colored mane and tail. He was spectacularly beautiful, and there he was, pulling logs out of a woodlot.

[rodeoratdogs]

Here is a link to information on Silver on the equinecolorinfo forum I belong too. Silver only effects black based colors so a red horse can carry silver but it would not effect the coat color like it does in black. Morgans can be Silver and and Rocky Mountain horses commonly are Silver.

http://www.equine-color.info/gallery/v/dilutions/silver/
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