'Medicine Hat'
Dark Spotted Jack
DOB 10/29/03 11:15pm
Birth Height: 22¼"
Sire: Circle
C Highlite, 32" Brown/Gray/White Spot
Grand Sire: Desperado
of Circle C, 29" Light Brown
Grand Dam: RVB
Carrie, 33" Gray/White
Spot
Dam:
Windcrest
Mallory, 32½" Dark Brown
Grand Sire: L.L. Zeus,
31½" Brown
Grand Dam: Windcrest Sara Fina, 32"
Dark Brown
Doc
has a 'medicine hat' spot pattern that
is very striking. He looks like he has
a little hat on his head from the dark
spot on the top of his head including
his dark colored ears. Indian horses
so-marked were highly-prized by Native
American cultures. These horses marked
with 'war bonnets' were believed to possess
certain powers that would render their
riders invincible in battle. Several
Native American tribes, including the
Sioux, Comanches, Blackfeet, Kiowa and
Utes, regarded Paints as being the most
desirable type of horse to possess and
breed and while most tribes practiced
some sort of selective breeding, and
routinely gelded inferior stallions,
few, if any, 'Medicine Hats' were ever
altered. The marking itself continues
to be universally seen as a positive
symbol. A symbol with mystical roots,
of late its appeal has been more genetic-based.
It has been established that Native Americans
reserved their deepest reverence for
the most-white Medicine Hats. Could one
of the reasons for the high esteem have
been the fact that those Paints produced
the highest percentage of color? Whether
you agree or not, it does make for an
interesting twist to the "white is right"
Paint breeding theory that many of today's
most successful breeders believe to be
true. We think this same theory could
apply to donkeys as well.
Doc is very stocky and wide between his
legs with an unusually pretty head with
a perfect bite. His spots are dark brown
with a few gray spots on his legs. His
'medicine hat' marking even looks like
it ties under his throat latch. Click
here for another photo of this baby's
sire, Circle
C Hilite who he very much
so resembles.