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!
My mustang Liberty. Photo by Jessica Farren.
Fall dapples on my mare. Photo by Jenna Stauder.
My pretty dappled bay girl. Photo by Victoria Magliaro.
My mare Puiwa. Photo by Ashley Moniz.
When clipping your pony you never know what you might uncover!!! Photo by Melanie Helmd.
Photo by Linda Hamrock
Photo by Rachel Serverinsen
My girl Lyric at 2. She’s now as white as snow at 8 years old. Photo by Rachael Rosenthal.
Photo by ES Equine Photography
Photo by Renee Scucci
Photo by Christy Castle
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!
