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Reader Photo Challenge: Dazzling Dapples
Here are 13 horses with beautiful dapples.
One of my favorite nursery rhymes as a child went like this:
I had a little pony,
His name was Dapple Grey;
I lent him to a lady,
To ride a mile away
She whipped him and she slashed him,
And she rode him through the mire;
I would not lend my pony now,
For all the lady’s hire.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have loved it because, well, the entire second verse. However, as a small child, I just loved the idea of a dapple grey pony (and, to be fair, it did teach a valuable lesson — don’t lend out your pony!).
That dapple grey pony helped inspire this week’s reader photo challenge, which asked our readers to show us their ponies’ dapples. And, boy, did they deliver!
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My mustang Liberty. Photo by Jessica Farren.
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Fall dapples on my mare. Photo by Jenna Stauder.
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My pretty dappled bay girl. Photo by Victoria Magliaro.
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My mare Puiwa. Photo by Ashley Moniz.
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When clipping your pony you never know what you might uncover!!! Photo by Melanie Helmd.
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Photo by Linda Hamrock
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Photo by Rachel Serverinsen
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My girl Lyric at 2. She’s now as white as snow at 8 years old. Photo by Rachael Rosenthal.
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Photo by ES Equine Photography
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Photo by Renee Scucci
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Photo by Christy Castle
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Photo by Miki Przybylski
Keep an eye out for next week’s 24-hour photo challenge! We announce challenge subjects on Monday around the end of the day on both Instagram and Facebook.
Go riding!