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Champagne Freckles or Appaloosa Mottling?
Sometimes, because of their pink skin with freckles, Champagne
horses are mistaken for Appaloosas without spots. This page is meant
simply to help in the identification of these two kinds of skin
colorations. Neither one is more or less desirable or attractive.
Champagne skin is pink with
darker spots on it, like human freckles. Many are small and round, but you will
often see bigger, irregularly shaped ones, also. The spots tend to be
somewhat purplish. Sometimes there are so many that they overlap until the
pink skin underneath is hardly visible, and sometimes even the pink skin will
tan, in strong sunlight, until the freckles fade into it in places.
The actual comparison photos I used needed to be large enough to show the
differences, but to make this page more manageable, I used clickable thumbnail
size photos in the chart. Please click each photo to get a good look at
it, full size. Some of these champagnes have less freckles than
usual, but there are still enough to see the essential difference from Appaloosa
mottling. The Appaloosa pony in this chart is a very unusual light
base color (silver buckskin?), so *most* of her skin is light, unlike most
Appaloosas. See also THIS page for a few
more good comparison photos.
Description
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Champagne
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Appaloosa
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Head
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Eye
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Muzzle
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Under-tail
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Udder
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Page created 12/10/01
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