Dapples on a chestnut?

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When I bought Chico he was chestnut and white, however over the year i have had him he has changed colour very subtly.

His chestnut patches have alot of colour variation, darker patches, light specs, dapples etc.

However i've never seen a solid chestnut with dapples.

Here are the best photos i have that show what i mean

Notice the colouration in his rear patch and the dark shading down his front leg
(please ignore my massive rear!)
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Shows his neck markings
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My chestnut mare has dapples, apparently they are a sign of good health :D
excuse the bad pic but she hates having her pic taken and does her best donkey impersonation, but you do see the dapples.
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My father always says that dapples are a sign of being in good heart. It probably is some sort of genetic dilution effect or something tho!
 
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My chestnuts have dapples too. As do my bays and greys.

We have thee most fantastically dappled chestnut horse at work. He is a really rich, deep liver chestnut with stripey dappled legs and has a magnificent set of dapples over the under side of his neck, his shoulders and body! I wish I had a pic of hin in his summer glory!
 
chestnuttymare said:
My chestnut mare has dapples, apparently they are a sign of good health :D
excuse the bad pic but she hates having her pic taken and does her best donkey impersonation, but you do see the dapples.
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your lovely mare looks the same shade of chestnut all over though, Chico has many many different shades all mixed together. Even his forelock has about 5 different colours in it!
 
My bay had dapples in her summer coat and now she's getting her winter coat through, she has a gold honeycomb pattern at either side in the saddle area. It's her first year with us and she had been clipped out last year, so I'm very interested to see what happens next.
 
My girl is chestnut with flaxen mane and tail she goes almost liver chestnut with dapples she also has a dorsal stripe!! I admit I have never seen anything like her colouring!!
 
yep my chestnut has dapples and multi coloured mane/tail, in the right light you can assume he's turning into a leopard with all his 'spots'. i love them though as it makes him look distinguished! :D
 
My chestnut had dapples

And around 4 50p sized bits of black over his rump?

And the odd fleck of White on his flanks

But was true bright chestnut to look at unless you got up really close

Odd though cos he was full tb and got his history right back to 1800s

Most were chestnut, bay and black
 
My YO's chestnut has the black spots as well... she only told me tonight what they were called, one name was Bend-Or spots (after a horse who had them, think that's the American term for them) but I can't remember the other thing she called them, damn my short attention span!
 
EKW said:
One of our Carrol House's had a black splodge on his bum, half way down the buttock by his tail. Must be a family trait :D
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Funnily enough before I found out who he was, my vet asked if he was related to sir ivor as he had the splodges and she has a mare by him with the splodges. Didn't realise it at the time That they were related.
 
my old heinz 57 mare is liver chestnut and has almost black dapples all over her bum in the summer (winter coat is bay!). We have a chestnut irish draught in at the moment who has white hairs all under his belly and splodges on the insides of his hind legs and one side of his body has black patches smeared all along it!
 
Trish C said:
My YO's chestnut has the black spots as well... she only told me tonight what they were called, one name was Bend-Or spots (after a horse who had them, think that's the American term for them) but I can't remember the other thing she called them, damn my short attention span!
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Liver markings :)
 
Dappled ones are the best ones! (of course working with mostly greys I would say that!) Not a chestnut clearly but dappled and not grey ;)
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He's a tested palomino roan, but when you look close up they are dapples not roaning (which is evident elsewhere)
 
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rhino said:
He's lovely, although I am rather partial to a liver chestnut (my boy's not - he's a real 'red' ginger); I found one for sale recently and think he's STUNNING - not seen one with that much of a contrast between coat and mane/tail (click on the pic to see a bigger version). Now I just need to win the lottery...

http://www.belgianhorses.be/en/horses/162-Hermes-vd-Wateringhoeve
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OMG, he's gorgeous, I know what you mean about the mane and tail, I'v never seen that either!
 
Zeus does dapple in winter :)

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I don't think any of my bays or chestnuts (7 or 8 of them) have dapples come to think of it.
 
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