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Go Copper Glo and his family

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Go Copper Glo is an AQHA registered stallion. Though he is obviously a dun, due to his dorsal stripe, leg, neck and shoulder markings, he is registered with the AQHA as a buckskin with a dorsal stripe.  Perhaps this is because he was born in 1984, when the lines were still even more blurred between these terms.

Copper's dorsal stripe appears to have a "hiccup" in it; this is due to a cowlick in the middle of it.  Here you can see that, and his neck and shoulder markings.

Copper has a red dun dam, Robin Dunny Glo, and he has black points, so we know that his red genes are "Ee".  He also had a red dun or dunalino daughter, which further proves this point.

His sire was registered as bay, Irene's Copper, but so far all of Copper's foals look dun; so, we are looking for photos of his sire, to see if he may have actually been a dark shade of dun.  (The sire's sire was a dun.) If so, there is a good chance that Copper may be homozygous for dun.  When the dun test is available, Marlena will have him tested for that.

In the meantime, she's going to have him tested for the Cream gene, since that seems to be the only one slightly in doubt.  Why is it?

Well, the "bay" sire may have been a smoky black; one daughter may be a dunalino, out of  a plain sorrel mare; and two recent foals look grulla, but could conceivably be smoky blacks.  The older one in particular has turned almost completely black as he has matured.  Here are pictures of him as a foal, with his sorrel dam:

This little guy is Copper's son "Cutter", and though much younger in these photos, he is 8 mos. old as of this writing. He has turned almost solid black.  He looks even blacker, now, when body clipped. Copper's cream test will tell us whether he is a smoky black. If not, he could still be a solid black, depending on whether he shows dun markings next summer, or whether he throws any duns out of non-dun mares when he matures.

Copper's "harem", left.  The mare on the right of the group in the left picture, Shes Too Certifiable, is the sorrel dam of Cutter, and also of the yellow mare, below. The mare in the center, Miss Lena Tari, is believed also to be a sorrel.  I'd like to look into that... though her parents are not believed to be dun.  The one at left of the group, Dinos Description, is a buckskin (not a dun; cream on bay). Another photo of the buckskin, to compare her with dun, is at right.

This mare, Im Not Dun Struttin ("Reba"), is the result of a cross between Copper and the sorrel mare on the right of the group picture, above. Though she is obviously a dun, I have a question as to whether she is a red dun or a yellow dun (dunalino). Copper's cream test will help us answer this question.