Model Highlight: The Albino

This ol' white stallion has been popping up a lot lately, so I figured I would write about him.

The Albino, gray Mustang stallion

First of all, for those who have read the Flicka series, his name should sound familiar. He was the troublesome Mustang herd stallion who stole the rancher's mare and impregnated her, producing Rocket. Rocket, in turn, was bred to the ranch stallion, Banner, producing the famous Flicka.

When I first got into pedigree assignment, I liked having horses connected somehow to the fictional horses I loved and grew up with. (Which is why I have at least one horse named Shetan ;) ) Luckily, instead of making them descendants of these fictional horses--which would really bug me now!-- I just named them similar.

And so SFC The Albino stole my straight Egyptian Arabian mare, SFC Gypsy, (at least he has taste?) and produced SFC Rocket. SFC Rocket was bred to my Quarter Horse stallion SFC Banner to produce SFC Flicka.

That whole mess left me with a half Arab/half Mustang mare, and a 1/4 Arab 1/2 QH 1/4 Mustang mare. Yikes.

Well, in showing SFC Gypsy in a dam with produce class, it came up that an Arabian had produced a Mustang foal. Judges were like, whaa? So to fix that, we changed SFC Rocket to be a "partbred Arab" instead of a Mustang, in lieu of having to explain the whole tale.

I don't even have a better picture of him than that. Poor guy.