What colour are silver brumbies?

[honeybasset]

I found this and thought other people may be interested!

" I actually wrote to Elyne Mitchell in 1982 about this and she wrote a lovely letter back to me - I was 22 and had read the series about ten times since my later primary school years so was a dedicated fan ........
I just wanted to tell her how much pleasure her books had brought me and to ask about the colour of the silver brumbies. They were what we used to call 'creamy' - the very pale palomino with silver mane and tail and lots of irridescence - almost white in winter so they really were 'horses of the snow' that could be lost in forests of white barked trees. NOT the sort of palomino that Pally judges would call perfect coat coloured - FAR too pale, but quite a popular colour with stockmen who still call the pale palominos 'creamies'."

 

[devonlass]

I loved the silver brumby books.

Was it Thowra the main one was called??

I always imagined the colour to be a cream type colour,with the silver mane and tail of course!!

 

[Mehitabel]

i've just got my copies back after lending them and am about to start a reread!

 

[madlady]

Oooh my fave horsey books of all time - I still have mine somewhere - right I'm off to the loft to root them out and have a good read!

 

[Clava]

I loved them too, great books all from the horses view point. Haven't read them since I was about 10yrs old, but would like to (maybe to my daughter in time).

 

[starrynight]

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[jinglejoys]

Are those the ones with Florin in it or is that another Brumbie book,always wanted a horse called Florin? I always thought the were greys.

 

[Aimee-x]

love the books! Yeh the main horse was Thowra, Devonlass
me and my friends shared little welsh mountain pony is 'Cream' but she doesnt have a silver mane and tail darn! aha
shes beautiful .
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