You plant people know you're the only ones who have the slightest clue, right? The rest of us just go "flower!"
Having just checked myself following Wikipedia links, I find that there's at least one painting depicting a horse with blanket-Appaloosa markings in 1727 in Austria (even though the breed itself didn't exist at the time). There were leopard-spotted horses all over the world since forever, but I thought the Nez Perce tribe created the blanket pattern. So, I was wrong. And - you don't care. Never mind. Just wanted to set the record straight. Carry on. Movies, is it?
Until I saw a picture of the whole horse. D'oh. That thing could eat a palamino and have room for dessert.
Palomino's actually a color. A dilute! [link] In theory, one could breed a heavy draft for palomino color, but I don't think there's a huge market for it.
You know I adore you both, right? Don't you dare shut up about the meaningless horse blah blah.
Everyone whose ever had hayfever and blamed it on Goldenrod (instead of Ragweed) should know that those yellow flowers come out in late summer! There's no need to be a hortifuckingculturist to figure that one out.
/plantgeek
Yeah, yeah, but they'd gone to such lengths to cast the horses playing the main part, to get the look right... and then to just toss it away with the younger version???
Doesn't this indicate they couldn't find the right foal, then?
Didn't they spraypaint the horse for Hidalgo?
Surely it couldn't be that hard to find a chestnut foal.
Having just checked myself following Wikipedia links, I find that there's at least one painting depicting a horse with blanket-Appaloosa markings in 1727 in Austria (even though the breed itself didn't exist at the time). There were leopard-spotted horses all over the world since forever, but I thought the Nez Perce tribe created the blanket pattern. So, I was wrong. And - you don't care. Never mind. Just wanted to set the record straight. Carry on. Movies, is it?
The Knabstrup! [link]
Yes, the Appy's not the only spotted horse (and not all Appys are spotted): [link]
To tie it back to the movie, First Secretary, Secretariat's first foal from a test breed, was an Appy. His name cropped up a lot in the Appy Sport Horses.
Yeah, chestnut's not rare or exotic.
Until I saw a picture of the whole horse. D'oh. That thing could eat a palamino and have room for dessert.
Palomino's actually a color.
No kidding? I didn't know that (obviously).
All right, that's the New Thing I learned today!
