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“I sell my horses. Everything here has a price. If somebody wants it more than I do, they can buy it. Our 2009 foal crop was so good that I didn’t think they could get any prettier or more athletic. We have had 10 foals thus far in 2010, however, and I think they are prettier, and just as athletic. All have that name brand marketability, with sires like MHR Nobility, Afires Heir, Baske Afire, SF Specs Shocwave, Afire Bey V, Vegaz, Majesteit and Undulata’s Nutcracker.
Thundering Hooves Arabians Brenda Brown Oral, S.D. Brenda Brown has been drawn to unusual-colored horses since she was a little girl. “Silver, the Lone Ranger’s horse, was white, but not a cremello!” she
says, knowing that her statement is correct. Brown is eminently familiar with coat color genetics. “Cremello is a double dilute coat color, and there are none in the Arabian horse world—probably because of the blue eyes that go along with the color.” (A cremello or pseudoalbino—ccr at the C locus—has pink or grey skin, blue or hazel eyes and an almost white coat. See Equine Genetics and Selection Procedures, from Equine Research Publications, © 1978.) “Half-Arabian registration is available only to horses with one purebred Arabian parent,” she adds. “That is why I am considered a rogue. My two senior stallions are out of true, dilute palomino sisters that are 63/64 linebred Arabian, both registered Half-Arabian. Both Thundering Hooves stallions are registered pinto breeding stock. My senior stallion is by MJD Corona De Oro, and Unforgettable SS is his dam. Allussive Gold SS has two approximately 90 percent cremello Arabian sons. One is out of a 63/64 registered Half-Arabian palomino mare, CW Gold Surprise, that belongs to me, and the other belongs to Wendy Nickerson Gough and Peter Gough, of Portrait Arabians WNG, owners of Behold Ice Gold WNG. “I have partnered with Peter and Wendy Gough, and we will be doing business as Double Dilute Specialists® (DDS). Our goal is to breed high quality, dilute and double dilute part-Arabians, and to raise the standard for quality and elegance of high-percentage Arabian cremello and palomino foals.” Behold Ice Gold WNG, a cremello colt, is by Allusive Gold SS, who also will stand at Thundering Hooves Arabians starting this year.
CW Gold Surprise HAHR 6A347916, a 98.4 percent Arabian palomino, and her 90 percent Arabian cremello filly, Isis DDS
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“Behold Ice Gold WNG is everything we could want in a breeding stallion,” says Brown. “His high percentage of Arabian blood and classic Arabian good