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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.

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