Pretty Ponies

[dancinghorse]

Because lynnesite said I could. :)

Pretty piccies behind le cut.




Camilla-the-War-Mare: Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!





Our witty photographer titles this one "Our Pooka of the Poop Piles."





Tia showing us a bit of what she'll look like when she's a grown-up Lipizzan.






Tia: OMG TEH CUTE!





The Balanced Trot: Tia shows us how it's done.

Comments

[rethought.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

Embarrassingly enough, I didn't realize Lipizzans came in any color but white until right now.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I believe they start out dark and get their white coats as they grow up!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Though some do come in (and remain) bay. (I don't know anything about 'em except that they exist.)

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

Lipizzans are mostly gray, which means they start out dark and turn white as they grow up; some faster, some slower. About 1 in 500 or so stays dark -- bay, seal brown, or black. The School always keeps a dark stallion in training, for luck, they say. Charlie Horse Acres in Graham Washington has a gorgeous bay mare. We know that Pooka's sire is heterozygous for gray, meaning that there's a 50-50 chance, when breeding him to a non-gray mare, of getting a non-gray baby. (The graying gene is dominant.)

Tia is a gray; she'll turn white as she matures. You can tell even when they're babies, because the grays have white around their eyes when they're born.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Yep. You can see the silver coming through around the flanks.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite stage is right in the middle when they look like dappled pewter.