Girl acts sad to see how her horse will react.
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My big guy is very patient with having his mane cried into.....
I bred duns and buckskins for years. My copper dun stallion had Poco Bueno blood both top and bottom in his lineage. Poco Bueno horses tend to be a bit hard headed and cold backed - and he certainly had both of those characteristics, though he was a great ride and very calm for a stallion.
Here he is:
His son was a dark chocolate grulla who was born much lighter but was a deep coffee color when he grew up:
As a foal:
At two:
I bred that colt to a red dun mare and got a true mouse grulla mare. Here she is with one of her foals:
I still own the grulla mare and one of her fillies. We've never managed to train that filly - she's just too stubborn. Besides, after watching her do airs above the ground out in the pasture, I know I could never had stayed on her, even when I was a young, bold rider!
Only 80% foundation because her grandsire was Zan Par Bar from either Matlock or Carol Rose and he had some TB in him. They bred a lot up here since cutting and ranch horse competition was big here.
I hauled her down South in Kansas a little ways to take her on a Wagon Train trip. My family rode in the wagons and I rode with some others. There was an old guy there, a cowboy poet who entertained us at the campfire before we retired to our tents. I rode with him and the next day spoke to him about how much I admired his buckskin and it turned out he came from the same parentage and the same farm as mine. There were a lot of them around here.
Sadly she had Zan Par Bars temperament. She was very careful with me while I was on her back, never ever threw me or bucked but boy could she be a crab when working around her. I loved the hell out of her and miss her to this day. Her daughter just died a few months back. It about killed me. She loved to roll in her stall, which was open but she loved to be in it. She got a hoof caught up top in the bars. By the time I got to her she had likely had a stroke being on her back held up by a leg. It was a long day and she died the next night after I finally went up to the house for an hour of sleep. 
Anyway, I should erase all that because it is not important to this conversation.....but I wrote it, it is getting late and I need to do barn checks. BYW, that mare that just died was bred from my buckskin to I'm A Peppy San Doc and was hoping for another buckskin and got my beautiful Nova, a gorgeous bay mare. Still....I dearly love the look of a grulla, any color with a preference for the gray. Mmmmmm, those days are over but I can sure admire the look of those horses. Just 3 left, all old. After such a colorful barn I am now down to 2 sorrels and a nice dun. Gotta run, they will be waiting! Thanks for all that and LOVE looking at your photos. Such beauties.
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