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Misty’s Heart of the Storm is a 2005 great great granddaughter of Misty. Her sire is palomino tobiano Island Wildfire, 2001 Assateague born son of Tornado and Sanddancer. Her dam is palomino Misty’s MayDay Twister who was a daughter of Misty II and had her a Breyer model in the 90’s. Heart is a current member of the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team alongside her full brother Misty’s Sunfire. She is bred and owned by my friend Kendy Allen. I first saw Heart as a tiny week old foal bounding around the ring at the Chincoteague Pony Centre. I can’t believe she turned 20 this year! Her name is Heart of the Storm because she has a heart shaped pinto marking by her right shoulder. Misty’s Heart of the Storm’s test results: a/a, e/e, nd1/nd1, TO/n, EDXW3/n Despite both of her parents being palominos Heart is a chestnut, e/e. Neither parent passed their cream dilution on to her. She also does not carry the bay causing agouti, shown as a/a. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html She has two copies of non-dun1, or nd1, which often causes ponies to have primitive markings like dorsal stripes. It doesn’t appear she has a dorsal stripe but she has so much white it’s hard to tell! https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings... Heart is obviously a tobiano pinto and since only her sire is a tobiano she has one copy, TO/n. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Because she has so much white and such a big blaze I’d always figured she had another pinto pattern in addition to tobiano. Before we knew more I guessed it was splashed white because some of her family seems to have it. It’s not splashed white, but was happy to find out I was right she has something else! Heart has Eden White 3 aka EDXW3 which was discovered in the past year. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html  
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Catwalk Chaos is a chestnut tobiano mare born in 2010. She's one of only two known offspring of the solid bay Yankee Savage, better known as Chaos. Her dam is chestnut tobiano Paint By Number, better known as Paint Butt. Paint Butt was also the dam of the late Carnival Baby and granddam of Good Old Days Bailey's Star. She's had four foals kept for the herd all of whom are still living: Catwalk's Olympic Glory, Judy's Sunshine, Cher's Hope, and CLG Apollo. Catwalk Chaos had the nickname Margarita because the marking on her right side looks like a margarita glass! Catwalk Chaos's likely genetic makeup: e/e, TO/n Catwalk Chaos is a chestnut like her dam. But she also had to receive a copy of chestnut from her sire who would have carried it recessively. She passes one copy of chestnut on to all of her foals. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html We don't have enough information to know if she carries the bay causing agouti. Only one of her foals has been bay, sired by the bay tobiano Ajax. The rest have been palomino or chestnut. Since her sire was bay she might have inherited agouti, or not. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Catwalk Chaos has one copy of tobiano pinto, inherited from her dam. Her two solid non-pinto foals also tell us that. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html She seems to have something that's suppressing the amount of white she has. And she has a couple of big occluding spots. If you look closely at her "margarita glass" and the big "C" on her other side it looks like there's a piece missing out of them. Something kept white from going in those missing pieces and we call those occluding spots. She's not really a minimal pinto but her foals Judy's Sunshine and CLG Apollo could be considered minimal pinto. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/occludingspots.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/minimaltobiano.html   Copper Moose was one of a group of half Arabians born in 1996. His sire is the chestnut registered Arabian Premierre and his dam was the buckskin Sandy's Grey. Copper was born on the Leonard family's farm and his dam is a sister to Misty Dawn, dam of the recently deceased Poco Latte PW. Copper didn't sire a ton of foals but has descendants in the current herd. His two daughters kept for the herd are LZS Mark's Island Liberty and Dakota Sky's Cody 2 Socks. He was almost killed by another stallion in 2010, but recovered and lived almost 5 more years before passing the winter of 2014/2015. I got to watch Copper his whole life; I saw him sold as a buyback and spent some quality time standing with him at the fence at Pony Penning 2014. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/halfarabian.html Copper Moose was a buckskin like his dam and he sired several cream dilute foals. Both of his buyback daughters were bay and didn't inherit his cream. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/buckskin.html Buckskin is bay diluted by cream and he appeared to have one copy of agouti. Agouti causes black to stay on the pony's points with a brown body, which is a bay. One of Copper's assumed foals was a black pinto. If he had two copies of agouti he couldn't have sired a black foal. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Since Copper's sire was a chesnut he carried recessive chestnut. Chestnuts like Premierre always pass one copy of chestnut on to their offspring. Copper sired at least one chestnut offspring. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html   Misty's Storm Chaser is a 2004 daughter of the prolific off island stallion Cezanne. He was a half brother to the well known Shyanne via their dam. Chase's dam was the bay Misty's RainDrop who competed as an eventer. She is owned and was bred by my friend Kendy Allen. She's been part of the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team, has also been a show pony and competed in eventing in her youth. I've known her all her life and is one of the many ponies that now make me feel old. Misty's Storm Chaser's test results: a/a, E/e, nd1/nd2, TO/n Chase is a black, one of the most popular colors in Chincoteague Ponies. Since her sire was chestnut she carries red recessively. This shows up on her test as E/e. The E for black and the e for red. a/a means she doesn't have the bay causing agouti. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/black.html Her dam was solid and her sire was tobiano so she only inherited one copy of tobiano. This showed up on her test as TO/n. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Chase's primitive markings test was nd1/nd2. nd1 can cause primitive markings like dorsal stripes, but she doesn't have any primitive markings. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings... An interesting thing she does have is lacing. It's a bit hard to describe so click on the below link to see it. A genetic link hasn't been found but it can run in families. Her full sister Misty's SnowDrop has lacing too. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/lacing.html Chase also has something suppressing the amount of white tobiano is trying to put on her. Can really see it by the big occluding spot on her face that's covering up part of her blaze. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/occludingspots.html   |
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