This historical mare has become one of my favorites, even though I didn't really notice her much when she was alive. Paint the Wind was born in 1979 and died in 2005. Her identification number was 0. She was sired by the bay pinto half Arabian Gordo and her dam was a black pinto called Laverne. One of her foals may have been kept, but right now she doesn't have any known descendants in her current herd. Given her long life we can't rule that it out.
Paint the Wind was a dark bay or brown. As you can see in Linda's picture she had an obviously brown nose. It's thought that brown is somehow genetically different but the how hasn't been found yet. Brown: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/brown.html Her most defining feature was just how much white she had. Her dam Laverne also had a lot of white. She had tobiano, her looks and her foals tell us that. She also likely had splashed white. Her sire Gordo appears to be the source of splashed white in the Surfer Dude family. We can't rule out she could have had another white pattern also. She's sometimes mistaken for the tobiano splashed white stallion Hot Air Balloon. Mixed Pinto: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mixedpinto.html Paint the Wind had at least two chestnut foals so she carried recessive chestnut. Even though neither of her parents were chestnut. Chestnut: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html Paint the Wind became a favorite because in my photo archival work I always seem to see her. She was born the same year and had the same sire as Surfer Dude's dam Gremlin. The two appeared to stay together, even as their stallion changed, until Gremlin died in 2000. The pair joined the stallion Simon's band as yearlings and stayed with him until he died. Paint the Wind was even considered as a possible dam of Surfer Dude for a while because she was behind him in one of the first foal photos found. I hope one day we can find that she has descendants in the herd.
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