>>>> Snort....why does everyone keep calling him faded black? Is there a joke >>>> I'm missing?
Uh, yeah...some of the self-professed color experts in this breed have in the past refused to grant Janice admission to the VERY ELITE Colored Icelandic Horse Society. They refuse to believe that Nasi is dun, even though 1) his DNA shows that he can be nothing else (his IS DNA black, is not bay, not smoky black, not liver chestnut - so what's left...?), 2) he has a dun parent, and one parent must be dun for a foal to be dun and 3) he has the secondary dun characteristics (including a distinct dorsal stripe, shoulder barring, some slight zebra striping on his legs, the very dark face that fades to a lighter body) and 4) normal eyes would tell any sensible person that he IS dun! I think it's the "there goes the neighborhood" reaction that many of us non-zillionaire Icelandic owners have been greeted with when we dared to buy our horses. Darn - I hate to see that! ;) Janice's exclusion from this serious society was going on when I went to pick up Svertla almost exactly a year ago. Seriously, I was shocked to see what Nasi looked like in person, given the hullabaloo over his color by some folks playing color geneticists. He was dark blue dun... it could nothing else, it was obvious from appearances. Of course, I ONLY saw him in person immediately after he shed out and wasn't sun-faded. The much more astute and knowledgeable "experts" were making their judgments from 3000-10,000 miles away, based on a few winter pictures. Think I should bow to the much greater authorities...? :) Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
