Indigo Sierra
This Morgan mare is believed to be "only" a brown buckskin.
She has not been tested for the dun markers.
It has been said that she has none of the known dun carriers in
the Morgan breed in her pedigree.
She has a (deceased) stripy smoky black sire, who has been used
on another web site as an example of "false dun" (see his very
black-looking, early pictures, below), who has a cremello dam, who
has two palomino parents. We will look for dun there, first.
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all of these are Sierra
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Comparison of her dorsal stripe with that of stablemate Skye:
Which is dun? Which is "obviously buckskin"?
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Sierra's sire, "Smoke", deceased:
as a foal with his cremello dam, photo courtesy of Marilyn
Vander Wekken, his breeder
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as a long yearling, photo courtesy of his owner,
Wenda Gassner
Smoke tested E/e a/a Cr/n
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He looks SO solid black in his yearling picture, above right,
that we probably should just stop there. But, since he's been
used as an example of "false dun", he must have some striping, so
let's look a bit farther...
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Parents of the cremello mare, above:
Sire: Pal-A-Mor's Golden Sun
Dam: Kodiak Gold Model Walker
This "niche" yielded a few Palomino and at least one chestnut
offspring,
some of
which can be seen here. |
Speedking is one of Sierra's cremello granddam's grandsires
(Kodiak Gold's sire)
Speedking is a dark palomino whose upper legs look dark enough
to be caused by or hiding dun, in my opinion. One of his
sons is Triple S Goldust Correll who is also sooty and could have
marked forelegs (in my opinion).
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