Update on Loretta

For all you folks who were wondering whatever happened to Loretta, my silver buckskin aged mare: I have her out on  breeding lease to a friend who has silver bay stallions. He bred Loretta to his homozygous silver stud, Silver Assured, in hopes of getting a homozygous silver filly that will not be homozygous for bay. Here is a photo of the stallion she is bred to, he is the one on the left:

 She is due to foal June 16, and once the foal stands and nurses, Loretta will be considered sold as per our agreement. She will be 24 years old by then. I am really looking forward to seeing her foal. I originally found Loretta on Facebook, a ranch in northern BC had put her up for sale before running her through a sale where she probably would have gone to a meat buyer since she was 23 yrs old and open. They had no idea that she was the rare silver colour. I could see from her photos that she had  high probability of being a silver buckskin, so I took a chance and bought her, paying twice the purchase price to get her shipped down here. Genetic testing confirmed the silver gene and that she was not homozygous for agouti, - double win, as it means she has a chance to eventually produce or be the grandma to a silver black, which is very rare in  quarter horses.
So why did I not just keep her and breed her to Beamer? A couple of reasons- I didn't like her dominant behaviour in my small herd ; I only keep the sweet ones (hence Coulee being sold) and the other reason was that I need to keep my expenses down. 2 breedable mares is plenty, and all I have room for.
 This is Loretta in her new home- lots of room to roam much better than the confined quarters I have here.