Guess the Breed--Horse!

[WIChookchick]

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Not a Morgan...

I'll give you some more clues since it's an action shot.

Short--no more than 14.2, drafty, German origin. Has a brand in the shape of a pine tree.

Thuringen horse!

No it really IS a black forest horse
http://blackforesthorses.ca/history.htm

Horses born in Baden-Württemberg will receive the "famous"
Spruce Tree brand.​

 

[BurdBrain]

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Thuringen horse!

No it really IS a black forest horse
http://blackforesthorses.ca/history.htm

Horses born in Baden-Württemberg will receive the "famous"
Spruce Tree brand.
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Well, I guess that's pretty likely now that I think about it. If I'm not mistaken, the usual presence of the Champagne dilution gene is another thing that makes the Black Forest horse easily distinguishable. As far as the Conifer tree-shaped brand, Thuringens also have that.

 

[Peaches Lee]

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Correct!

It is a Schwarzwaelder Fuchs, meaning Black Forest Chestnut.

 

[Peaches Lee]

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WOW! Strange coloring! I don't know what you call that coloring. While my first guess will be Icelandic?

 

[BurdBrain]

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I believe that is an Icelandic horse. What you might be considering 'strange' is the unique gait of the Icelandic horse, the tölt; a four-beat gait where the front legs take long, gliding strides in an almost circular motion and the hindlegs take swift, abrupt steps.

Something else you might see as strange about the individual pictured is that the withers are noticeably higher than the croup, but I suppose she could just be really relaxed.

 

[Haviris2]

The strange part is that it's a tricolored pinto, red in front, black in back.

 

[WIChookchick]

You are all correct about it being an Icelandic...
Look at the coloring of this horse, it is perhaps a 1 in a lifetime type of genetic anomaly.
The horse is a chimera, the dam was carrying fraternal twins, but the other twins DNA became entwined. This horse has chestnut pinto markings AND black pinto markings..
This is vastly different than a tri color paint or pinto that is a bay or roan.
http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/ecg_basics4.html


Here is another Chimeric Icelandic pony



And here is a paint horse that is Chimeric

 

[BurdBrain]

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I can't believe I didn't notice that.

 

[Haviris2]

A bay or roan is not a true tricolor pinto, 'true' tricolors are quite rare, like this guy. That second pic would also classify as a tricolor. Brindle horses are also generally chimeric.

 

[stephanie1992]

whos turn is it