Post by aquiladorado on Mar 2, 2012 6:56:43 GMT
Name: Hanya
Species: Horse
Breed: Brumby x Quarter Horse
Gender: Mare
Age: 2
Height: 13.2hh (should mature to 14.2 or 14.3)
Appearance: Short and stocky, yet beautiful due to the deep alluring color of her coat - Dark Amber Champagne. She has no markings. Despite the fact that she could be mistaken for a Red Dun, the champagne gene which she inherited from her dam is noticed by the pink skin on her muzzle and around her eyes (complete with mottling). Hanya also shows the typical dun traits - dark points, a dorsal stripe on her back and barring on her legs. She is built very compact, but has amazing bone and a great hindquarter all in that smaller package. Her eyes are kind and gentle, with a distinct dark hazel color.
Personality: Like most fillies, Hanya is both playful and very inquisitive. Hanya asks a lot of detailed questions that usually get ignored because their answers are not known to others. The rest of her time she spends keenly observing humans. Her interest was spiked in the activities of man from her foreign connection to a domesticated life. Hanya is very easy going around others and attracts attention from her amber coat and friendly personality, although she is not one to be pushed around and could fight just as well as any stallion if absolutely necessary. She is very passionate about family and would enjoy returning to that sort of life at anytime - although not with a stallion who would be overly controlling about her slight obsession with humans. This little Amber Champagne filly is perfectly capable of taking care of herself. She hasn't been caught yet, and she doesn't plan on it.
History: Hanya was given a rough start to life. Shortly after her birth it was assumed that she was too weak to survive and was bound to die within the next 24 hours. Proving her strength not only to the other Brumbies but to herself, the little filly made it through that night and many more.
To obtain her color and the Quarter Horse part of her lineage, it is no surprise that one of her parents was domesticated. In this case it was her dam. The gold champagne mare was a sturdy mount for a man who participated in the Brumby drives, and during the selected time of the drives, a bay dun stallion and his small herd would watch the scene from afar. Always careful to keep their distance in fear of being caught, the dun stallion would watch the beautiful champagne mare who worked so easily under the man. He left his herd one night and followed the mare and her rider back to their territory, where it came as a shock to see the affection the mare showed toward the scruffy human. Despite the bond that might have existed between horse and rider it was plain to see that the mare was otherwise alone. The stallion plucked up his courage to approach her one night, and something about that dun Brumby and his friendly nature attracted the champagne Quarter Horse and she agreed to find a way to leave with him.
It was an odd decision considering she was a purebred and registered Quarter Horse and this other creature could be considered as nothing more than a mutt. Either way the stallion and his herd swept away the mare in a stampede when the man had let down his guard by a river. The gold champagne horse stood out among the Brumbies, and she was nervous in their wild presence, but the attention she earned from the bay dun stallion was well received.
Unfortunately the man considered his champagne Quarter Horse mare too much of a prize to give up, so he pursued her on his return to the HIgh Country the following year. The mare had begun to relax in to her new surroundings and the protection of the stallion and his herd, and it was that same year that her man returned that happened to be the first time she was in-foal. The bay dun stallion was over-joyed at the prospect of this new colored foal, yet feared for his mate and vowed to stay with her until she had to leave on her own to birth their child.
When that time came and the gold champagne mare ventured off by herself, she ran in to complications. Her foal came premature while the mare was not in the most ideal location, and her newborn filly could barely gather enough energy to stand. The abnormally small creature lay helplessly, crumpled in a heap, while her mother practically had a panic attack as she called for help. Her mate managed to find her and the filly, considering the had not managed to get too far, but as he tried to force the weak foal to stand, the loud cracking of a whip startled the pair.
The man had come back for his mare, racing through the bush on another steed while his cattle dog barked shrilly alongside. The mare was terrified, both for her foal and the dun stallion, so she gave herself up to prevent the man from finding her loved ones. The stallion grieved, standing over the filly that he knew was bound to die, and he stayed there for one whole day. As evening approached, the small filly started to struggle. The stallion watched in amazement as she managed to gather her legs underneath her fragile body and spring upwards to stand on them. He could not believe his eyes, but his foal seemed perfectly normal (if not a little small, and very hungry). He brought the filly, whose coat was an incredible mixture of his and the wondrous gold champagne color of her mother, back to the herd where she was able to be weaned from another Brumby mare who had recently had a foal. The filly, who was named Hanya for the amber color of her coat, matured in to a muscular and healthy mare with a keen knowledge of survival and an iron will to live.
Genes: Ee/AA/DD/Chch
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