Face Markings
Masks, cobwebbing, and eye markings
Masks
Duns sometimes, but certainly not always, have LOWER
dark face masks.
Sometimes a grulla (dun on pure black) will have a
completely dark head :
If you see darkness (masking) on the UPPER face
only, such as on the forehead, this is often "shading", and not a dun
characteristic.
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Click picture to see full size. A grullo stallion,
Mainly Merlin.
http://www.grullablue.com/stallions/merlin.htm
from Todd and Toni Perdew
Cedar Ridge Quarter Horses and Beagles
www.grullablue.com
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She is Ee Aa Crcr -- "Dunskin"
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From a folder on this web called "colt_face"
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from Todd and Toni Perdew
Cedar Ridge Quarter Horses and Beagles
www.grullablue.com
http://www.grullablue.com/foals/foals07/07alaskafoal.htm
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Diane Pinney's Sulphur stallion, Sulphur's
Khanketsuba. Click the pic to see his striking
cobwebbing!
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EYE MARKINGS
Treating the eye as part of the face
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Here is another variation of dun eye markings. There are
several types! This AQHA filly is Rick to a Tee, owned
by Mary Haas of Haas
QH's, on one of her first days wearing a saddle.
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Mary should really keep her fillies out of her
makeup! This buckskin seems to have overdone her
"eyebrows"... this is Cowboys Shining
209, also of
Haas QH's. Note: THIS IS NOT A DUN. Not all eye markings
indicate that the horse is dun.
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