Appaloosa's and Their Spots - One Year On! PICS (Hopefully)

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OH took some pics of Vardi today and we were stunned at the change in him.

Taken last May 2008 3.5 years

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Taken Today April 2009 4.5 Years







Fingers crossed I have overcome my Technical Numptyness!
 
OMG what a change, his coats being taken over by grey lol... still very pretty though, appaloosas and roans are my all time favourites
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and hes like a bit of both
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LOL yep my passport is pretty much out of date luckily they had the sense to name his white coronet band which is the about the only thing to remain constant!

His first time on the double lunge today......boy did good!....trainer says he has a big ego! which is great as it means he is very confident and takes most things in his stride....we just want to ensure that his ego remains slightly smaller than mine.
 
He's gorgeous! My girl did the same, started off as a chestnut foal and every year she lightens and gets more spots, but her spots are quite dainty and a variety of colours! I think its called varnishing, they will always keep their coloured points and spots so will never be a true grey. x
 
Here is a old link to some pics ot my Appy girl jumping, aged 4: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2285404/an/0/page/0/gonew/1#UNREAD

Not got any more recent ones uploadable but she is also greying out, I have seen pics of her as a foal and she is actually solid-coloured! It's all part of the magic that is Appy ownership!
Is yours a bit of a laugh too? Tangle has me in stitches, she thinks she is the boss of everyone and will grab my other horse's leadrope and take charge of him!
 
He's lovely, just my type of horse. I have a little man who started the same colour as yours - he's only eleven months but starting to show some grey at the front end. I wasn't too chuffed about the prospect of him colouring out, but after seeing yours, maybe it won't be so bad afterall.
 
Mine too. He's coming up 10 months and where his winter coat is shedding, he's looking roany in with the chestnut, especially his face!

Will be interesting to see what he does next. He was bright chestnut to start with and liver chestnut through winter. His white blanket does look like its spreading too!
 
i have an appy x new forest he was born liver chestnut with one tiny white spot now he his chestnut and a totaaly covered spotty bum and frecklecs coming all over his back!
 
He certainly has personality! we have had to put double locks on his stable door as he not only let himself out but everyone else in the vacinity as well....you can't leave anything within reach as it is picked up chewed, played with then spat at you (beleive me when a broom gets thrown at you it is not funny) he pulled my OH's jacket through the bars of his stable then proceeded to pull the sleeve off and traumatised my Jack Russel by throwing a horse ball at her then grabbing her lead and taking her for a drag!
 
I knew an Appy that was very much like yours. Bay with a spottie blanket. He is now completely white with lots of brown spots... lovely. I have an App x tb who is just coming up for a yearling, was born bay but apperars to be going Dun!!!
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I had a very striking blanket spot who had a very white blanket with big chocolate spots which did stay constant, but the rest of him was quite dark bay in the winter and very strawberry roan with spots in the summer, plus spotty socks - cute!
 
My daughters pony started off chestnut with a spotty blanket at 3 when we bought him and when we sold him at 6 he was a loud leopard spot! I now have a appy x filly who was black and we are waiting to see what colour she will end up as she has started to get the odd white hair in her summer coat.
 
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Yey!
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What a change - still gorgeous though!!
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The passport for my boy says he is steel grey with a steel grey mane and tail with four black hooves - the only thing that is the same is his hooves!!
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Fleabitten grey, grey mane and tail with dappled legs now.......
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Ditto that - Paddy's passport says steel grey but he is just very lightly dappled.
 
I once saw a part-bred gelding at the Nothern Ap Show whose owner had bought him as a solid bay aged 11, not knowing anything of his breeding. The owner was very surprised when he developed spots, to the extent that he showed enough characteristics to be registered.
 
I am on the second Appy now, you would think I would have learnt from the first one!
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She used to pick me up by my plait, if I was foolish enough to stand wit hmy back to her. She whirled things round her head (and mine) if anything was left in reach, she was a loud leopard spot by the end. (She was always loud!) The current Appy is much more subdued in colour, but not in personality, anything left in the stable for up to five minutes is fair game for playing with, and both perfected the art of carrying water in the mouth, to deposit on an unsuspecting person. The joys of Appy ownership
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