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Livia (2013)
img courtesy LRE facebook

Show Name: LRE Livia
Barn Name: Liv
Sex: filly
Color: Palomino
Markings: none
DNA: ee-aa-Ff-CR/n-Z/n
Eyes: brown
Breed: Trakenher
Registry: TBD
Registration:
Registry: CPHS
Registration: C0087
Registry: KSMH
Registration: AKM0002A
Owner: Circle F Farms
Breeder: Lucy Ryan Equestrian, November 2013
Sire: GP Laestrygones, Black, Trakehner
Dam: LRE Frei, Palomino, Trakehner
Exchange able: no
Status: In Quarantine (foal)
Recorded Offspring: 0

LRE Livia

Palomino

CPHS/AKMH		 GP Laestrygones
Black
Trak		    
 
   
 
LRE Frei
Palomino
Trak/CPHS		    
 
   
 
Pedigree generated by PedigreeQuery.com

Traits: Friendly, Neat, Genius
LTR:


Training

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Jumps Attempted: x
Poor Jumps: x
Perfect Jumps: x

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Meters Galloped: x
Hours Training: x



Other:

Frei is one of my favorite horses over at LRE; not just for her Cream gene, but also for her unusual markings. After an excessive aunt of drool on her doorstep (generally over Liv's half-sister, Akaterinna, but also over their dam), Lucy surprised Tina with a golden Christmas present.

Liv is the first of this cross; she is a purebred Trakehner and is bred to Event. We couldn't be happier with (or more grateful to Lucy for) this lovely filly.


Liv was one of the last foals bred by Lucy as an independent (LRE). Not long after Liv's crop was weaned Lucy rebranded as Castleton Park (brand: CN).
Needless to say, the Circle F family wishes her and hers all possible success in their new venture.


Genetic Notes

The Cream gene, while fairly uncommon in most breeds, is gaining in prominence on Warmbloods in general (mainly due to cross-breeding with Cream Thoroughbreds and Anglo-Arabians). The Silver Gene, on the other hand, is a beast of a different color.

The Historic roots of the Trakehner breed include, like most modern breeds, multiple influences.

"Old Prussians and other Baltic people such as the Lithuanians were noted for their hardy horses and cavalry during the early Middle Ages. During their conquest of Old Prussians in the 13th Century Prussian crusade, the conquering Teutonic Knights named the Old Prussian horse a Schwaikenpferd, a small primitive horse. Beginning in the 14th century, knights used it to breed their military horses, and descendants of the Schwaikenpferd were later used by Masovian and Ostsiedlung farmers for light utility work. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the people of Ducal Prussia, Brandenburg, and Royal Prussia used a wide variety of horses from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Crimean Tatars, Ottoman Turkey, Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, Holy Roman Empire for their cavalry and stud horses, crossed on local animals.

In 1732 King Frederick William I of Prussia used these horses and other imports to establish the Trakehnen Stud at the East Prussian town Trakehnen (now Yasnaya Polyana, Russia). Soldiers cleared the forest at the River Pissa between Stallupönen and Gumbinnen. In 1739 the king gave it to crown prince Frederick II of Prussia, who often sold stallions to make money. After his death in 1786 it became state property, named Königlich Preußisches Hauptgestüt Trakehnen." (Trakehner, english Wikipedia)

Since 1945 the Trakehnen Verband has only permitted Tested and Approved Thoroughbred, Arabian, Shagya Arabian, and Anglo-Arabian horses to be used in cross to registered Trakehners. These breeds are limited to Red, Bay, Brown, Black, Grey, Cream, Splash, Roan, Frame, and (in a very limited sense) Tobiano. The historical root breeds, however, included such color mutations as Dun and Silver and, possibly, Pearl. While most of the historical mutations seem to have been bred out of the modern Trakehner (more by chance than design), it is not impossible that one or more of the less visibly obvious mutations may have remained hidden within the breed.

Owing to the facts that:

Frame and Splash can be so minimally expressed as to leave zero white on a given animal

DW White can imitate more traditional pinto patterns (including Splash and Frame)

Light Bay, Bay Dun, Buckskin, and Smoky Black can be phenotypically identical

Smoky Black and Black can be phenotypically identical

Silver Brown and Silver Black may be misidentified as Flaxen Chestnut.

Silver Buckskin (brown or wild bay based) and Palomino can be phentoypically identical

Grey is a masking gene; hiding all other colors.

It is not unreasonable to suppose that Silver, which can be difficult - if not impossible - to detect on some base colors, may have survived from the historical root breeds into the modern era of the Trakehner. That said: Silver in the modern Trakehner, like Frame and Roan and Tobiano in the modern Thoroughbred, is likely limited to only a handful of family lineages (maybe as few as only 1 or 2 lines).

LRE Frei was originally built to contain such a "hidden" Silver gene. The Registry at ES voiced concerns and all reference to Silver was then removed from her profile. The IRL Trakehner-Verbrand, on the other hand, accepts all colors on horses otherwise acceptable (by pedigree) to the Registry.

LRE Livia, like her dam, has a hidden Silver gene; independent of other color genes, her foals each bear a 50% chance to inherit Silver from her.
As such, she is ineligible to be registered at ES, regardless of what the IRL registry considers acceptable.



Conformation:

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**Note: we have her .sim file; due to winter hiatus and the move of our game files she has not yet been imported to our game.


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