Fire N Ice lives about 1 mile from me, and he is
truly a gorgeous boy....I have never seen a more beautiful Palomino (?looking
horse. I don't know or care much about all the paperwork.) All the
babies I have seen from him, have equally powerful color and blonde/flaxen/white
mane and tail.....He also has an incredibly sweet disposition which he seems to
pass on.
In a message dated 1/5/2006 11:09:29 AM Central
Standard Time, sherman@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
The 4yr old is by Fire n Ice and the girl is disappointed with
him because she thought she'd get a palomino, but he's a chestnut.
Fire N Ice is *not* a palomino...the dilute gene does not
exist in Arabians. Fire N Ice is a chestnut. He simply has an
extremely flaxen mane (whitish), and his body is a golden chestnut
color. I've heard that the people who own Fire N Ice had him certified
(or something like that) with some palomino organization that looks only at
color, not genetics. I've seen pics of him, and he does look a bit like
a palomino. However, he does not have the dilute gene that makes a true
palomino (or buckskin), and therefore, he will never sire a palomino...unless
the mare carries the dilute gene (she'd be a palomino, buckskin, cremello,
perlino, grulla, smoky black, something like that). In which case, she
would NOT be a purebred Arabian.
