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He’s cute, but he’s very pushy on the ground. Also he chomped 2 of my fingers when I pulled a crosstie out of his mouth. I think he was curious about one of my rings. 🙄 Next rainy day we’ll do some groundwork. I’m not sure if he’s just forgotten manners, or wasn’t really taught in the first place. He needs work with backing up, too. He gets away with a lot due to his size.

@reallydangerouscowboy probably not. He does have his hind right fetlock a little dropped, but it's been like that for over a decade and hasn't gotten progressively worse, and he receives no treatment or special shoeing for it. Titan was previously a rescue so his exact history is unknown, but it is most likely from a birth defect or old injury. I'd personally lean towards old injury because he has a way of lurching into a walk and trot from a standstill that is consistent with draft horses that do pulling competitions with very heavy weights, and a fetlock injury would not be surprising with that type of high strain activity.

When I first started riding him and asked if he had any limitations, the barn owner said none. In fact, she used to do hunter paces with him. I was quite surprised to hear that but they're apparently his favorite activity! He's not much of ring horse but he's happy to trot and canter while hacking, and has showed no soundness issues. I have some videos of him under saddle and you can see that he does not have the hip wobbling or stickiness usually seen in DSLD.

Princess Marie of Orléans (Princess Waldemar of Denmark (1865–1909)) riding sidesaddle on her pet bull around 1905.

(Prince Waldemar was her husband, not one of her other names. Her full name was Marie Amélie Françoise Hélène d'Orléans)

Russian Dons

This is either an amazing example of a wild bay or a chestnut with an unnaturally dark mane n' tail. I'm not sure if the wild gene appears in Russian dons.

I tagged this horse as a chestnut, but perhaps it could also be a red dun if there’s a dorsal stripe the picture is hiding. I believe a wild bay would still have a dash of black on the tips of the ears and patterns/fetlocks. Chestnut seems to be the most common color of Russians Dons though, so I wouldn’t rule it out. The breed often has interesting sheens and tones to their coat due to the Akhal-Teke ancestry.

I believe true dun doesn't exist in Russian dons (tho my knowledge of the breeds is low, so anyone more in the know feel free to correct me), and even for a dun that would be extremely dark.

Their connection to Akhal-teke could make wild bay possible, as the gene is found in that breed (tho again I don't know if that has passed onto this one).

The wild gene does minimize black points, and in some cases can almost disappear completely with the help of pangaré (and that's another gene I'm unsure if it's carried by the breed or not).

They do come in red dun, but it is the rarest color.