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Doc
"That we should exist to the praise
of His glory..." Ephesians 1:12
[ Doc's Pedigree ]
Doc"That we should exist to the praise
of His glory..." Ephesians 1:12
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NEW DOC PICS!!!These pics of Doc and Barb were taken by Joe on April 30, 2007Doc's almost 10 here. Barb's older than that. Doc's
about 1050 lbs. and just shy of 15 H.
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Docs Dewin Time
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Earlier yet: September 1999; at only age 2
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He was new to us here, and only 2 years and 3
months old.
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Doc is a great-great grandson of two famous horses: Doc Bar and Impressive (twice) (he's HYPP N/N); also has Blondy's Dude, King, Skipper W., Dial Adair, Plaudit and, of course, Three Bars in his pedigree.
Doc's sire, AQHA reg. Slippin Thru the Dew, 1993, #3244684, Palomino. His body (but not his head) is wet. He now lives NE of Cincinnati, OH, at the H bar J ranch. Doc's dam, AQHA Miss Doc Gage, is registered as a red dun. We haven't seen her or a picture of her yet. She now lives in SW PA.
March 2000 - age 2 3/4 - fuzzy season |
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Doc grazing, late spring or early summer of 2000. |
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This cocked-hip picture does not show off his conformation very well, but it DOES show the darker top line (see explanation below.) |
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Doc's summer coat was coming in pale beige. I hope you can see it here. He still has some "winter white" hair on his belly, etc. (The pink skin on his nose is due to his large blaze.) |
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"Let's get his face this time" ... OK, Doc's downhill, and I'm using a telephoto lens ... he's not THAT small. |
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Another attempt at posing Doc. Doc would prefer to eat the grass. |
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Joe points to Doc's rump and he turns on the forehand. He knew nothing about this stuff when we got him, and used to try to cow kick if asked to turn. What a horse trainer! Note dorsal shading. His tail is just dirty; it's purest white, as is his mane, when cleaned up. |
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The row above are some pictures we took in May 2000 just to see if Joe looked too big for Doc. He did, back then. He's not quite sure what the bit is for -- we're working on that; but he sure does know what GRASS is for!!! :-) That's why he's "fighting" Joe.He wasn't even 3 years old in these pictures. He's big enough for Joe, now ... he's grown a full hand - 4 inches - and 200+ pounds since Joe bought him! |
Left is Doc's rump in May 2000 before the sun faded his counter- shading away;
right is the dun line
left after being exposed to 24 hr. turnout for a little over a month (end of
June). It extends crisp and unbroken, though light grey, from his mane to
his tail. He also has some tan roots growing down the center of his
nearly-white mane, and also in his tail, but the "guard hairs" are
white root to tip, a pattern slightly similar to these
wild duns. 
He
also has a lot of horizontal color on his knees, another typically dun trait
(dark lower legs), though it's cut off by his high pointy socks/stockings.
His ears are outlined in tan, and he has the striped hair growth patterns on his
neck and chest that Hardy
Oelke says trace back to the wild Iberian dun horse roots of the Mustang.|
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If you look with an unprejudiced eye you can see faint barring on the backs of his upper forelegs, especially when in the shade. Unfortunately, it's more noticeable in person. August 1999 it was also visible on his hind legs. (As of 2005 it was all invisible permanently.)All photos at left taken in June 2000 |
<= In this picture from March 2000 you can see a little bit how in his winter
coat his face was darker than his body, though he has a big blaze that obscures
the center of it and any cobwebbing; also ear tips and slight ear barring are
visible. (Click to enlarge.)
<= Four months later, in July 2000, his darker summer coat was already so
sun-bleached that he looked almost white again (left).
To
the left (excuse the rudeness of the photo, but this is one important place to
look for pink, freckled skin to determine whether a horse carries the champagne gene).
The sun was not angled quite right, casting the base of the tail into shadow;
however, you can still see that the skin is a rosy color with darker grey or
purplish mottling. You can't see it in the thumbnail here, click it to see it
full size. It's all even lighter in person than it looks here. June
2000.
Here
is a flashlight-lit picture of his sheath, which is colored the same way, from
around August 2000.
He
has a few other odd color traits, too. The skin on his chest and the
underside of his neck is lighter pink with small purple blotches (click on thumbnail
at left to see BIG photo taken in summer of 2000.) In some places, like
his lower legs, it's more purple with pink blotches (this may correspond to the
darker hair there = dun coloring). In some places I can't get him wet
enough to see it! His hair seems to repel water.
Now
for his eyes and the skin around them. The skin around his eyes is solidly dark.
It almost looks like "eyeliner", compared to the rest of his skin.
His eyes are brown, not as dark as they appear in these
photos.
Here
are pictures of the streak of partly-pink-skinned white on his
pale tan belly. He also has the sabino "roan" coloring,
which is one reason why he is so light and has mottled skin. This is not a
true roan, but an expression of the sabino or perhaps the cream gene, in which white hairs are
evenly mixed in with the colored ones all over the horse's head, body and legs.
His much-darker-Palomino sire has this "roaning" as well.
Thanks to my beloved son for all the photo scanning!
This is me leading Jeremiah
Edwards on Amir. Jeremiah had ONE lesson to
prepare for this class. He lost out because we didn't know he would have
to back the horse. It's a shame, because "back" is Amir's 2nd
favorite move, right after "eat"!
November 2000.
Me, back in the summer of 2000
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