Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter was the product of unintentional line breeding. His sire is our El Cacahuatito and his dam is Miss Lightening. His is the same shade of dun with the same black points as both parents, no white markings at all. He is now an 8 yo Galiceno gelding. We are working to socialize him and he is doing well. He was started under saddle last spring.

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Albums: Horses of Thunder Hills Galicenos
Location: Decatur, TX

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Comment by Kate Green on December 2, 2011 at 8:01pm: I will. We concentrate on natural horsemanship and believe in gentle methods. http://galiceno.org/photo-gallery-and-lineages.html Follow this link and scroll down to the colt named Dusty from the Hardcastle Ranch. He is the little Grullo I told you about. Thunder Hills Ranch is the name I have given our place and you can see Pepper, Peanut Butters little sister. They also many other Galicenos with interesting color.

Comment by Shirley on December 2, 2011 at 2:23pm: I have also heard of the Grulla being referred to as "Dirty or Smutty Brown" My thinking on the colors seems to follow yours but I am not placeing any bets or trying to explain it to anyone else. A nice Grulla is soooo awesome to me but you rarely see a really nice one.

Keep training happy horses!

Comment by Kate Green on December 2, 2011 at 12:59am: Yes the "cross" is a reference to the dark area across his shoulders. He is a dun, or buckskin respectively. grulla falls under dun factor, but may not qualify as a buckskin. As far as I understand, buckskin refers to variations of the color above, from butter milk to just a bit darker than this boy. Red dun carries the same patterns in shades of red and grulla in grey or dark brown. A friend of mine at Galicenos of Suwannee picked up a Grulla stud colt this fall and his dam who is a bay. Same pattern of marking but a grey/brown color.

Comment by Shirley on December 1, 2011 at 3:50pm: By 'cross' do you mean the darkening over the shoulders? Cash was registered QH and Buckskin. The barn where I used to board had several varieties that seem to fall in the buckskin category and I still get all the colors mixed up. We had a champion Red Dun, I think that's what they called his color. Is especially like some of silver guruella which were also shown at the buckskin shows. I'm still not clear if they are actually considered a Buckskin to register etc. There just isn't enough time to research everything that I find interesting and would like to know more about. Just think of all that time wasted as a teen when I was bored. hehe. To have that time back to use wisely.

Comment by Kate Green on November 29, 2011 at 1:05am: His sire and dam had some of the best bloodlines around. He is a reare double Top Star bred gelding. Makes it a shame that he and Flash(full brothers) were gelded. His sire is El Cacahuatito (sp. for Peanut). He has a little full sister at Galicenos of Suwannee. She looks just like him. He has no markings at all, just like his sire. This photo also shows his dun factor stripe and cross. He also displays the striping on the legs.