This is Annandale's Eagle Feather one of the Ghost Horse (FewSpot) mares I sold last year. The Ghosts and Few Spots have never done anything more than a shuffle. She is either galloping or doing a 4pt canter in this shot. Below is her full sister Annandale's Bold Eagle a true Snowcap Ghost whose neck has already started roaning in this weanling photo.

(below) The week Eagle Feather was born. The Few Spots and Snowcaps do not develop nasal stripes. They merely develop further roaning on head neck and extremities. Their manes and tails sometimes change to pure white and especially the Fewspots do that.  Keep scrolling down for more homozygous individuals. These mares heads are not the perfect Tiger Head. Their dam was an itsy bitsy Appaloosa mare with a very short but broad head.  The sire could only do so much.

Here's another photo you could monkey around with ??(below left) Annandale's Avalanche.  He is my future stallion. This is  6 month old weanling shot which you can crop at the shoulder to show his lovely Iberian head already developed and will just get better as he matures.  (yes he has been lying in poop but this photo wasn't intended for publication.  He is walking down a slope but is also starting a growth spurt so his rump is a little higher than the withers in this shot. Plus with the cloning tool in photoshop or adobe, you can get rid of those unwanted marks. If you want me to rework any of these photos just let me know and I'll clean them up for you and email them.

 This is an interesting shot showing what his gait is likely to be although he is short stepping here you can easily see that if he were just standing up a little straighter with that placed fore, his raised fore would still be "ahead of that vertical." So we know from this he is lateral but then, all Fewspots are lateral to-date ie Shufflers, so there were no surprizes here.

(top left) Three Ghost Horse mares. The lead horse is a Fewspot (Ghost Horse) and the two in the rear are both Snowcap Ghosts.The two in the rear looked like twins in this shot but the one on the right developed a whiter face. They are related. Notice how the two in the rear's foot placements are identical. Talk about a Kodak moment. They are both "ahead of the vertical."  The mare in the front is not. She would be behind the vertical if she were straitened up so...(diagonal!! either trot or foxtrot)

     This is why photos are too difficult for accurate ID of gait. In the case of the lateral gaiters, usually not a problem, but with the diagonal ones, you need to know whether they are trotting or fox trotting and only the video can show you that.  Neat photo huh!! 
     Now (below left) is a true Varnish Roan. She is a first generation Tiger mare named Redman's Summer Breeze and evolved from being a liver chestnut with frosted rump, (just like her bay foal Annandale's Gray Wolf beside her), into a Varnish Roan.  Note the nasal bone stripes and palm sized hip patches.  Her markings differ from those of the Ghosts, ie, Annandale's Eagle Feather (below right) If two mature horses were brought before you for registration, one might think perhaps both were Fewspots? but as soon as you see those hip patches and nasal bone stripes,  you can be sure they are not. Both types keep their dark ear markings.

(below left) This is Annandale's Pegasus again. He is a red leopard with Sabino and strong middle gait. Because his raised fore is ahead of the vertical, he is slightly ahead of the vertical moving to imperfect gait. When the shift is this mild there is very little difference in the comfort of the ride of the running walk but because it is lateral and not square, we name this lateral gait "stepping pace." There might still be a slight head nod and tail bob in this gait because it is almost perfect. Sorry the trainer didn't clean him up for this shot. He was though in school. Training was more important to pay for than grooming. Pegasus was my orphaned foal. He and Heavenly are half siblings sharing the sire "Dillon."

(above right) Annandale's Heavenly.  The perfect Tiger Horse mare and my niece from Australia Vanessa Evans up. This mare clocked at 17mph in gait and had much more to give. (below) a cute photo of Pegasus when he was just a foal standing in the garage with me as a friend arrives for a visit. What a beautiful arse he has. I felt really sad when I let him go to the breeders in Indiana for endurance riding. I don't think he has ever forgiven me because the next time I saw him, he would have nothing to do with me. I mean he gave me a very dirty look and turned away from me. Most unlike him.

The strawberry roan (top right) is actually a red varnish in the making. She is a 1st generation Tiger from a wonderful MFT registered mare and our foundation stallion Annandale's Storyteller. Her gait is the perfect running walk (not the foxtrot like her dam's breed would suggest). She's the one who has just produced the stud colt of the century sired by Annandale's Zeus that I'm flying out to inspect at the end of this month in Indiana. The photo shows the mares at around 18 months to 2 years. That was our farm in Arkansas. "Chinook" is a compact 14.3hand mare. Her dam and the dam of my personal riding horse Annandale's Carbon Copy, were full sisters and Fox Trotters. C.Copy is totally different in body type and closer to the perfect Tiger. Their sires were different. C.Copy is the daughter of Love Story. "Chinook" the daughter of "Dillon" developed into a white horse with the typical nasal bone stripes and hip patches. The white one though, Annandale's Winter Fox, is phenotypically perfect including Iberian head. They produced the first magnificent Tigers.

(below left) Hard to believe this young stud colt Annandale's Avalanche, (my future herd sire), is only 6 months old in this shot. Shown at the hayfeeder soon after arriving from a breeder in Texas, with Annandale's Fairy Tale just before she foaled Annandale's True Brave.

(above) A red leopard and her red Snowcap daughter.  The dam is half Arabian and a 1st generation Tiger shuffler. Her daughter is a second generation Snowcap Ghost  and foxtrots. She was the result of breeding 2 shufflers (half sister to half brother). Annandale's Storyteller (one of our three foundation stallions) was the siblings sire.
(below left) This is TS WindWalker AKA "Dillon." He is one of the 3 foundation stallions. Notice with diagonal pairs, he is going to place the raised fore on the ground ahead of the raised rear.  So he is doing a fox trot here. A diagonal gait. This is Karen Shed the member who double registered elsewhere. Dillon is a gelding now. He sired 5 foals for me. I still have his daughter Heavenly an extremely correct Tiger mare and way better than either of her parents. Although Dillon was one of the 3 foundation stallions, he is registered as Tiger Horse Number 12 because Storyteller's foals were registered before Dillon arrived on the scene. The two stud colts below (left) are my two foundation boys. Annandale's Storyteller Tigre#3 whose blood runs through almost every Annandale horse and Annandale's Pepper Stepper Tigre #1who stands at stud near Dallas Texas. Ask me about these details if you're interested

Black and White professional photo by Lynn Pomeranz. This is Annandale's Love Story and I gave Lynn permission to use him for a studio exhibit she was having to publicize her photographer business.  I also have the right to use this photo anytime I like provided we give Lynn credit for taking the photo. This was the cover shot for the final Gaited Horse Magazine publication.
(below) Annandale's Ghost Story a full  (elder) brother to Love Story. He is at stud in North Carolina.

(left) Heavenly and Winter Fox as very young mares. A bay roan and a bay Ghost.

(below right) Annandale's Pegasus was an orphan (one of the 5 foals I got by breeding my mares to "Dillon") Shown here as a 3 year old with my grand daughter Maddy up.  Pegasus foot placement shows him to be very square. This is the walk. If he were doing the running walk, his head would be held higher and so would his raised fore. He is an endurance rider now for the people in Indiana who have Zeus, Tiger Lilly, Heavenly, Dragon Fly, FireFly, Miss Independance and the latest stud colt.

(below) Aahh, a perfect shot of the Varnish roan and her spotted roan stud colt Annandale's Gray Wolf.  When she was born she had even less white markings on her than he does and was a dark chestnut.

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