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What's your favourite successful Dun? Any famous ones to recall?
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FYI; Just got a new, very talented, 6yo, boy - who is obviously dun. (First PN on Saturday, wish us luck)
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Anyway, that has sparked my interest in them, and I have discovered a new found love!
 
People really don't know what Dun is...
My favourite BUCKSKIN horse has got too be Hollywood Dun It.

Dun is zebra stripes on the top of the black legs and a dominant dorsal stripe.
This is a Silver Blue Dun, Silver gene causes the white mane and tail then thew body is a Dun gene on a black body.

In the UK if it's yellow with a black mane and tail it's Dun...no it's not.
 
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People really don't know what Dun is...
My favourite BUCKSKIN horse has got too be Hollywood Dun It.

Dun is zebra stripes on the top of the black legs and a dominant dorsal stripe.
This is a Silver Blue Dun, Silver gene causes the white mane and tail then thew body is a Dun gene on a black body.

In the UK if it's yellow with a black mane and tail it's Dun...no it's not.

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pops zebra stripes on her legs only tend to appear in winter when her coats a bit darker, i love them wish they'd stay all yr round
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obviously her lovely black dorsal stripe there all the time so i hope i'm right about her colour lol!!!!
 
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People really don't know what Dun is...
My favourite BUCKSKIN horse has got too be Hollywood Dun It.

Dun is zebra stripes on the top of the black legs and a dominant dorsal stripe.
This is a Silver Blue Dun, Silver gene causes the white mane and tail then thew body is a Dun gene on a black body.

In the UK if it's yellow with a black mane and tail it's Dun...no it's not.

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pops zebra stripes on her legs only tend to appear in winter when her coats a bit darker, i love them wish they'd stay all yr round
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obviously her lovely black dorsal stripe there all the time so i hope i'm right about her colour lol!!!!

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aww, yep she's definitely a Dun! It's rare to find a true Dun around anymore your lucky to have one =]
 
Keehl sorry but you are wrong, the typical dun is a sandy yellow with black mane and tale with black points!

Patmcfat - My Buzz is my favorite dun, but he's dun roan really,
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other than him it would have to be Hopscotch Toffeepop a top 138 jumping pony from the 90's First ridden by Amy Shipton nd then by Kristy Wilson.
 
Isn't Ernest the Dun horse that Alice Fox-Pitt is now riding!! There are a few good dun horses on the BE circuit. I like Dun's don't think I have ever known a bad one.
 
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People really don't know what Dun is...
My favourite BUCKSKIN horse has got too be Hollywood Dun It.

Dun is zebra stripes on the top of the black legs and a dominant dorsal stripe.
This is a Silver Blue Dun, Silver gene causes the white mane and tail then thew body is a Dun gene on a black body.

In the UK if it's yellow with a black mane and tail it's Dun...no it's not.

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pops zebra stripes on her legs only tend to appear in winter when her coats a bit darker, i love them wish they'd stay all yr round
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obviously her lovely black dorsal stripe there all the time so i hope i'm right about her colour lol!!!!

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aww, yep she's definitely a Dun! It's rare to find a true Dun around anymore your lucky to have one =]

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woohooo
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still wish her stripe would stay all the time there well cute
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I love duns, my sister had one when she was younger and she was the nicest pony you could ever wish to meet. My mum has a dun highland pony now and she is such a character. Very very sweet but also very sparky too.. Hope you have lots of fun with your new dun PatMcFat, they're very special!!

Here's Islay!!
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Dun, buckskin, grulla, if they do the job why be picky? Unless of course you are a geneticist, a breeder, or are in North America and then you get looked at strangely if you say dun, or chestnut, and as for coloured
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I read that native breeds, shetlands and highlands in particular, are dun rather than buckskin.

If we were picky then half the browns that are described as brown would be something else, blacks would be smokey this, that or the other, and don't get me started on palominos
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OT a bit, sorry, but how the heck does a chocolate palomino have any similarity to the colour standard?

Keehl, by the way, is that your palomino?
 
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Keehl sorry but you are wrong, the typical dun is a sandy yellow with black mane and tale with black points!


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Sorry, but this isn't true.

I breed duns. People often confuse bay dun & buckskin, most people think that buckskins are duns, and wouldn't recognise a dun if they saw it!

There are not believed to be any dun welsh, connies or NFs - they are all buckskins. Both dun & buckskin can be found in shetlands. Highlands are duns. etc etc.

Buckskin is a bay horse with one copy of the cream gene. Much like palomino is a chestnut horse with one copy of the cream gene.

Dun is a gene in it's own right, and comes in every single colour. To be accurate, when talking about dun, you should prefix the base colour before the word dun - i.e. bay dun, chestnut dun, dun comes in all colours - even, to make things really complicated, you can get buckskin duns!

Duns MUST have a dorsal stripe, buckskins MAY have one, but equally may not. The dorsal stripe of a true dun will be crisp & clear, as if drawn with a biro & ruler.

Here are some of my own dun ponies:

This is my stallion, Duke, who is a chestnut dun:
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This is a chestnut dun two year old:
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This is a chestnut dun foal:
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This is a mare I used to own, and her foal, both 'blue' (genetically black) duns:
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This is the foal this year as a yearling:
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This mare is bay dun, the colour which people often confuse with buckskin:
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This is the bay dun stallion I used last year, who also carries pangere I think:
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This is a bay dun foal:
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I have Thankyou very much Keehl considering my horse is hardly a common colour, everyone seems to be an 'Expert' these days, funny really considering the people claiming they knew what they where 'talking about' didnt have a clue when it came to Buzz
 
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Duns MUST have a dorsal stripe, buckskins MAY have one, but equally may not. The dorsal stripe of a true dun will be crisp & clear, as if drawn with a biro & ruler.

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That would make my dapple grey a dun.
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Keehl, by the way, is that your palomino?

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Nope, It's a Comtois picture I found lol.

I have a Silver Dappled Buckskin with a counter shaded Dorsal stripe though lol.
 
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http://www.horsechannel.com/images/tab-images/horse-news/hollywood-dun-it.jpg

That MY type of Dun, what would you call that? You can see the dorsal stripe clearly behind
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Hard to be sure, without seeing all of it, or knowing the colour of the parents, but it looks like a buckskin dun to me - in other words a bay horse which also carries one copy of cream plus dun.
 
Lol, well I like "normal duns"
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Enough of an answer for me :P

He is rather handsome isn't he! I knew to google him as the best example of my dream dun
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So, just to clarify, if a horse has a dorsal stripe it is some variation of dun?

I have an odd coloured horse, she changes colour regularly but always has a dorsal stripe.

Am I confused???
 
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So, just to clarify, if a horse has a dorsal stripe it is some variation of dun?

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No, I'm afraid not.

A dun horse must have a dorsal stripe. No stripe, no dun. But having a dorsal stripe doesn't make a horse a dun. Many non dun horses have dorsals. Their dorsals are called countershading, and are often (tho not always) much more blurred than a true duns.
 
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