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FOXTON FROSTY DAWN
2002 dark
(Foxton Society Beau X Foxton Smokey Dawn)
dark bay/brown silver mare,
13.2
On lease to
Edgefield Morgans,
Goshen, IN
I
have always loved the silver dapple coloring. Throughout the 1990's I had
done much research into Morgans of the past which I strongly suspected were silver dapple. In February 2002, it was
confirmed that silver still existed in the Morgan breed. You can imagine my delight! So, Frosty is the culmination of a
dream for me. Thank you so much Thom and Nancy Harris of
Foxton Morgans
in
Foxton CO for Frosty!
She will hopefully be
the dam of many lovely silver dapple Morgans! Her first, by our palomino stallion
Gone Gold, was
a bay silver colt born on February 17, 2006. The
second, a smoky black silver filly, was foaled on June 14, 2007. So far,
Frosty is two for two in the silver production department!
Frosty possesses a highly developed sense of self confidence. She greets visitors with a nicker and loves
attention and scritchies. Like my gelding Patented, she has a love of water, and the two of them will often "volunteer"
for showers on a hot day, turning themselves this way and that so that every part of their bodies can be thoroughly
soaked. Without a willing human servant to cool her off, Frosty will play in the water trough!
Frosty's pedigree not only contains the well-known, beautiful-headed show stallion Troutbrook Playboy,
but numerous lines to fabulous and hard to find old Western Working Family horses such as Julio (Delbert X Katelina),
multiple lines to Silver Ranger (Querido X Angelina), Romanesque (Red Oak X Mariah K), Chocolate (Linsley X Lady Spar)
and Dan (Headlight Morgan X Kate B)- the source of silver dapple in our breed. She has Lippitt breeding through Lippitt
Ethan Ash, John A Darling, Lippitt Polly Moro, and Lippitt Kate Moro, and several lines to old Brunk horses such as Juzan,
King de Jarnette, Grenadier, Ken Carmen and Rarette (all by Jubilee King) as well as Stetson (Flyhawk X Sentola) and Kings
Haven Senator (Senator Graham X Choquita). The rest of her pedigree is comprised of mostly old government breeding.
Frosty has been Red Factor DNA tested by UC Davis (click
here
to see her test results) and is homozygous for black (EE), which not
only proves she is not a chestnut, as she might appear with her light
mane and tail, it also indicates that she will never produce a chestnut
based foal no matter what color stallion she is bred to.
Frosty and her 2006 silver dapple colt
Unconventional
provided hair samples and photographs for the
2006 Uppsala University
(Sweden)
study of the silver dapple gene. This study resulted in the
silver dapple test which is now offered by UC Davis and other testing
facilities. A copy of the study
may be downloaded here.
|
Foxton Society Beau |
Society Statusmaster |
Troutbrook Playboy |
| Hi-Winds Amy D |
| Dores Day |
Windmill Jubylee |
| Dores Fey |
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Foxton Smokey Dawn |
Topside Midnight |
Kings Haven Senator |
| Topside April Fancy |
| Foxton Felicia |
Pegasus Persuader |
| SH Crescent |
You can view Frosty's complete pedigree
here.
It includes pictures of many of her ancestors.
To learn more about the very rare silver dapple gene in the Morgan breed,
and to see pictures of many of Frosty's ancestors and relatives, please visit:
You can also read the article on silver dapple Morgans
in the April 2003 issue of THE MORGAN HORSE magazine.
More photos of Frosty
(click on a thumbnail to enlarge)
To see Frosty's pictures from birth to two years, go
here.
She's two months in foal here, May 2005.
July 2005. Yes, Frosty loooooves water. Here she
is begging for a shower while I was
filling up the water tub in the pasture. I call her my hippopotamus ;-)
A few days after I took the above picture, I was getting ready to go to the gym one evening
and had left the water on in the tub in Frosty's and Roadie's pasture, so it could fill while I changed into my gym clothes. When I came out to turn the water off,
I discovered this scene. Frosty had pulled the sprayer out of the tub and it had lodged up against
the fence, where it was spraying into the field. Of course Frosty could not let all that water go to waste, now could she? So first she turned one way...
...and then she turned the other. She seemed a bit put out
that with the water in this position, only her bottom half was getting wet (athough it did provide an interesting way
to get her belly scratched!). I'm sure had I left her to her own devices, she'd have figured something out!
August 2005. The happy couple one summer evening at dusk. Frosty, by the way, wears the pants in the family!
Another August 2005 shot of Roadie and Frosty.
I was awake one morning at dawn and it was very foggy. I thought it might make for
some interesting pictures of the horses. Here's one I got of Frosty. September 2005.
I was trying to get pictures of Roadie's head in his new bridle, and Frosty kept following us wherever we went.
She was pressed right up behind me
most of the time, so I didn't get any full body shots of her pendulous belly. Here is one of the few shots I was able to get.
She seemed to be pretty disgusted that Roadie was getting all the attention,
as you can tell by her expression. November 2005.
January 2006. Frosty has gotten pretty sedentary in her late pregnancy. She has a very contented
look these days, more than usual.
I hope that the next time I update this website, it will be to add a page for the little critter inside its
mama's belly here. Frosty is officially due February 8. Stay tuned! January 2006 photo.
Here is Frosty on February 19, 2006 with her three day old silver dapple colt,
Unconventional.
I cannot believe this mare just foaled three days ago!
She put on quite a show! I wish things had been a little greener and that Frosty
wasn't at such a patchy stage of shedding, but I just love this picture of her!
On the left is a picture of Frosty and Connor, March 2006.
Artist Linda McSweeny saw
this picture on Wikipedia, and created the stunning painting
shown on the right in February 2007.
The original sold on ebay, where Linda regularly markets her incredible artwork,
featuring horses, dogs and other animals. Thank you Linda for allowing us to use this image on our website!
March 2006. Spring has sprung in Georgia- I love the
Bradford Pears in the left hand background of this picture.
A windy March day. Frosty had caught sight of the cows across the road.
A few minutes later she did a spook and snort at them and struck a
beautiful, classic Morgan pose, but I was not quick enough with the camera
:-(
Frosty and her beau, Roadie on a warm late October day (2006).
Frosty a week before she foaled her 2007 silver filly, Positively Charmed, June 2007.
At the tender age of 5, Frosty is now the matriarch of her own little family of
silver dapple Morgans. I was hoping to get a really good picture
of the three silvers together before Connor left for his new home in Canada.
Well, all you can see of Charli is her big butt, Frosty just
HAD to be chewing some hay and Connor's head is cut off, but here is my best shot
of the three. July 2007.
10/7/07- This picture of Frosty and her 2007
smoky black silver filly Positively Charmed under the rainbow was taken by fellow artist Lesli Kathman
at Saturday's 20th Annual Southern Model Horse Convention held here at the farm.
SouthCon began in 1988 as a unique way to promote the Morgan Horse
amongst model horse hobbyists, and it has helped make many
converts to the breed since. Visit Lesli's blog
to read about her experience at this year's show (when you get there,
just scroll down
to see the entry about the show),
and visit the SouthCon
website for pictures and more information.
 
October 2007- Frosty at Greg and Charlene Cook's Edgefield Morgans, Goshen IN where she will be bred to the buckskin Sunup Neptune son, Edgefield Sun Gold, in 2008.
On the right she is meeting HCTF Catch the Storm, Char's grulla mare. Photos
courtesy of Mary Kay Longacre.
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