He is a palomino few spot although the Appaloosa Horse Club registered him as a red roan, we argued this point with them on his full brother who was a palomino leopard, he had large palomino spots and they wouldn't take our word for it because they are so much smarter than the rest of us. After many phone calls and extra pictures we finally got them to change him to a palomino, the only reason that we bothered was because he was so obviously a palomino that his papers just didn't match him saying that he was a red roan.
When Ranger came along and we sent his paperwork in, we marked his color as a palomino and again those superior, intelligent people at the ApHC sent his papers back as a red roan. Since Ranger is mostly white and we were planning on keeping him anyway, we didn't bother to argue.
This past year we had a chestnut leopard filly born, her spots are dark chestnut with no white hair in them, she is out of a chestnut AQHA mare. The ApHC sent her papers back as red roan, we called and argued, they let us know how color blind we are. They have never seen this filly but it is us who do not understand horse colors. Even our Vet agreed that she was a chestnut with no roaning in her spots.
We had a similar problem with the AQHA or American Quarter Horse Association two years ago with a line backed, red dun colt. They sent his papers back to us as a chestnut because it was impossible for a chestnut stallion and a gray mare to produce a red dun foal. We called and talked to the man who takes care of this sort of thing and he looked at the pictures and the bloodlines and said that those bloodlines did produce red duns, so he changed his papers to match the colt. This colt's dam was born a grulla and turned gray as a two year old, so to say that a grullo and a chestnut could not produce a red dun was ridiculous. The AQHA treated us with respect and was reasonable.
You would think that since Ranger's dam has produced many palominos and our leopard filly is out of a chestnut mare that the ApHC would be reasonable too. But the end result is that we have two registered ApHC horses whose papers do not match them.
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And what do you do with horses whose colors don't match their papers? Does it make it harder to sell/breed them? Don't you just love how intelligent those people are? How arrogant of them to assume they know your horses' colors better than you do! That's just ignorant.
With the filly, it won't be much of a problem, red roan and chestnut aren't that different, but with that palomino leopard it was a major problem that had to be corrected. With Ranger we aren't planning on selling him and he doesn't have enough spots to worry about anyway.
I have a question that is a off the subject, but I was wondering if you use any sunscreen on his nose? I have a palomino mare that has white skin on her nose, and every year it sunburns and blisters, I am trying a different sunscreen this year and I was wondering if and what you use?
That is a good question and I will answer it in a blog today.
Hi Spinner, I stumbled upon this blog by chance via google while looking up "Indian Shuffle" Appaloosas. I was amazed to see how much your gelding "Ranger" is identical to a mare that I own (I don't have any papers on her). I was wondering if you could name off some of the names on Ranger's papers for me. I'd love to do some research to see if there are more similarities. Thank you!
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