DFE's Cutter - Red Dun Missouri Foxtrotter

Cutter was foaled 6/10/07. These pictures were taken when he was 5 months old. He is the only dun colt out of
Future, and a Golden Emperor/Eliminator's Rising Sun mare. This means he comes from the very rare Gem Lady Dawn
line of duns. He is not related to Playboy's Country Boy so he is very special in that he can be bred back to duns from
that line for dun to dun crossing. He has his sire's beautiful head and his dam's stocky build. We are very happy with
his developing conformation - nice hip and chest. He has a very animated foxtrotting gait that he prefers to use in the
pasture. He is gentle and easy to handle. Cutter is out of our breeding program.

His dun markings are extraordinary for a red dun. He has two huge sets of shoulder bars and nice leg striping. He also
has a nice face mask and dark points on his legs. We suspect we will find transverse striping off his dorsal when he
sheds out this Spring. The only white on him is his small star.

We are still evaluating this colt for stallion potential and unfortunately he is a half brother to Desi so we can not use
him as a second stallion to cross back to Desi's fillies. However we can use him to breed to our dun mares for dun to
dun crosses. At this time we are trying to determine the best course of action for our program.

A word about dun breeding:

The dun gene pool is still extremely small in the foxtrotter breed. It is important that responsible breeders continue to
work carefully to increase the numbers using quality breeding stock only. There are still just 2 known dun lines - the
3G and the Gem Lady Dawn. There are more 3G duns due to Playboy's Country Boy, but there are still just a handful of
Gem Lady Dawn horses available to cross to the 3G line. These numbers are also increasing, but at a much slower rate
because, until recently, there were no breeding age stallions out of that line.

We are often asked about grullo foals. We understand the desire for this color as we appreciate it as well. But at this
time, our primary focus is to increase the numbers of quality duns in the foxtrotter breed, instead of focusing on the
color of dun.

We intend to do this by crossing duns to duns to eventually have homozygous duns in the foxtrotter breed. Of course
this will take time, but once we have breeding age homozygous duns in our breed, the various dun colors will come by
careful selection of mares. UC Davis recently announced a dun zygosity test available to the public, so this will help us
identify the homozygous duns in the future. We believe Cutter carries the quality we strive to find and expect him to
make many wonderful contributions to the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse breed.