Relevant comment from the via: "It's called peacock spots, and is actually pretty rare. That's the halo effect. The actual pattern is called a leopard. Both of these occur in any breed that the appaloosa spotting genes are found in (which is the appaloosa breed, miniature horses, norikers, and knabbstruppers)."
in 'the log of a cowboy', a book about cattle drives, the author says that spotted horses looked nice, they were not considered as 'good' horses use for the drives.
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p. 18 of the airmont edition. the book is about being on a cattle drive in 1882.
ReplyDelete...only three pinto horses in the entire saddle stock... Now a little boy or girl, and many an older person, thinks that a spotted horse is the real thing, but practical cattle men know that this freak of color in range-bred horses is the result of in-and-in breeding, with consequent physical and mental deterioration.
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norikers, and knabbstruppers Oh, my.
ReplyDeleteNew words for me. Had to look them up.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knabstrupper
My old Kentucky friends would be embarrassed by my ignorance. You learn something every day. Tx, Mendo Jim.