BOO!!!! FROM ANNANDALE'S GHOST HORSES

     Do you have a good imagination? Can you see the ancient Ghosts (or white) horses in this photo? We can! We see white horses thundering into the 21st century from their ancient Siberian past? They are every bit as awesome, beautiful, and powerful as this picture conveys, and will produce spotted foals 99.9% of the time.  So far we show a 100% record of colorful foal production from these gorgeous "white" horses.

Since the original Tiger or "Heavenly" Horses from Siberia are extinct, we have no way of knowing what they really looked like (except from the  renderings of ancient artists) but we do know when modern day Tiger Horses inherit 2 copies of the Lp gene (leopard spotting coat patterning gene) and appear to be white horses (we've named them Ghosts), they tend to look amazingly alike.  And here's another phenomena, not only do they share body markings, they share many other similarities. ie, temperament and a very specific type of middle gait.

Without exception all Ghost Horses to-date have preferred to perform the "shuffle" gait which is closer to the jog-trot to look at, than the stronger middle gaits that their full siblings might exhibit.  Other amazing similarities, one to the other, leads us to believe that these rare and beautiful horses, probably closely resemble their ancient forebearers more than any other modern day horse. "As genes take millions of years to evolve or 'dissapear'," it is not unreasonable to believe we have recreated an original horse that closely resembles its forebearers.

 A medley of "white" Ghost Horses (below), is offered for your enjoyment. To see them in more detail, click on each picture of interest.  By the way, they're not really white horses because their skin beneath that white body is quite mottled and not just pink.  White horses have pink skin and Gray horses have black skin. If you have what you think is a Ghost Horse, wet it down and check for the mottled skin that lurks beneath that white body coat.  You may be stabling the find of the century.

Thirteen of these were bred by us at Annandale. Three were produced by members using horses purchased from us. A current list as of April 2008 is supplied below.  

 They are not "white horses" in the true sense of the word because they have mottled skin and base coat colored markings which separates them from mere white horses. True white horses have pink skin and horses that are true grays, have black skin usually maturing from some other colour into "white") Only the Ghosts (our "white horses") are spotted horse producers. This is because they have 2 copies of the Leopard Complex gene (otherwise known as Lp or LP gene) and always pass 1 copy to their foals. Gorgeous spotting patterns can be expected and especially when bred to a solid colored partner as was the  case with the spotted horse in the picture below.

The Tiger Horse Breed Registry TIGRE, shows the following 19 Ghost Horses registered up to and including April 2008
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Reg. #            DNA #        Name:                Gait:            Born:                Breeder:
1)S3-96/R4 *   96-03814         A.Storyteller                  SH                    5/31/93                    D,Culloden
2)S8-97/R5 *   97-08006         A.Ghost Story               SH                    6/09/96                    V.Varley
3)S29-00/R9    00-08100         A.Zeus                            SH+                  6/10/99                    V.Varley
4)M30-00 *     00-08804         A. Winter Fox                SH                    5/29/99                    V.Rizzo
5)M34-01 *     01-01657         A. Butterfly                    FT-Snow         5/03/00                    V.Varley
6)M35-01 *     00-19549         A.Snowbird                    SH -Snow        4/18/00                    M.Crane
7)S40-00 *       00-08728         Wylers Ghost Shado    SH                    ?/?.1999                   I.Wyler
8)S44-00/R22  00-30873         A.Ghost Wind               SH                    7/10/00                    R.Mackey
9)M47-02        02-00830          A.Eagle Feather             SH                    9/09/01                    V.Varley
10)G48-01       01-16033          A.Snow Goose              SP - Snow       7/15/00                    C.Duval
11)M56-03      03-02229          A.Dragon Fly                 SH                    09/03/02                  V.Varley
12)G60-           N/A                  Shado                              SH+                  04/05/95                  K.Tillisch
13)S61-04        04-06223          A.Orient Express           FT                    03/30/04                  V.Varley
14)S67-05        05-06293          VKS Osiris                      SH                   10/31/02                  V.Rizzo
15)M70-02      02-00830          A.Bold Eagle                  FT                    06/02/05                  V.Varley
16)M71-05      05-08928          Mrshfld Firefly               SH                    04/21/05                  A.Kesling
17)S73-05        05-09572         Wyndmoors Skip Jack   SH (Sab?)       06/06/05                  R.Marley
18)S84-06        06-03650          A.Avalanche                  SH+                 03/04/06                  V.Rizzo
19)M101/R19  PENDING       Mrshflds Indy                SP                    04/23/07                   A.Kesling


SH - Shuffle gait (lateral).  SH+ = Shuffle and better
FT = Fox Trot (diagonal)
SP = Stepping Pace (lateral)
RW = Running Walk, the perfect middle gait.

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