Stella's freeze mark is of course white, because its a freeze mark. I took a picture of it, but I know that it doesn't really count as part of her coloring, since that is just the way freeze marks look.
Her star doesn't really count either, but it does show that she has natural white in her system. Her expression in this picture is not that she is annoyed, or even asleep. It is a look of resting after utter pleasure. Raven is much better at scratching her, as he has more mass to put behind the effort, and Stella will lean into you as much as she can when she is really into getting scratched.
This picture is a close-up of Stella's shoulder. It is a bit hard to see, but all through her coat she is getting a peppering of white. It is most pronounced at her shoulders and along her flanks.
This is the cutest bit of white for me. Yes, for a horse pic this might be racy, but its cute! Stella has these two little patches of white that fan out from the rear middle of her belly. My cat Emily has the same thing, and she has a few flecks of white in her black coat as well.
I just wonder if Stella is going to stay a brown horse. She has black patches too, mainly on her rump, and as you can tell from her shoulder picture her brown is not at all uniform. Stella has some Arabian in her lineage as apparent from her physical look and movement (especially her face and her tail when she runs), so a color change would not be out of the question. Sam was a half Desert Arabian half Saddle-bred, and he started brown with a blaze, but turned solid white as he aged. Mo was a Russian Arabian, and when we got him at 3 years old he was solid black, but turned a light grey with a darker mane by the time he passed.
So, I wonder. What color will my little Stella be when she grows up? I love her no matter what color she is, but it is interesting to think that I might just have a color-changing horse.
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