In this section, we've displayed photos of dun markings on various dun dilute and dun + cream dilute colored adult horses.

Both photos above are ~ Storm Quest (Morgan gelding) - owned by Jackie Wyandt

Left: The leg bars are black or near black, wrapping from the outside of the leg around the back sides of the front legs.

Center: Leg bars on the hind legs are often more visible on the insides of the legs.

Left: Storm Quest (Morgan gelding) - owned by Jackie Wyandt
Black dorsal, and a lot of dun dilute frosting matching the body coloring at the tail head. Also visible ~ dun dilute mane frosting, and light ear tips.

Center: Smokestorm - smoky grulla (Morgan stallion) - Sheila Lomax (email)
Black dorsal, and dun dilute frosting matching the body coloring at the tail head.

Both photos above are ~ Storm Quest (Morgan gelding) - owned by Jackie Wyandt

Left: Cobwebbing on the forehead. Also known as concentric rings.

Center: Light ear tips, which is only seen on dun dilute colored horses. Not all dun dilutes will have light ear tips, though.

Left: Vjostar (Fjord stallion) - Copyright Hypofocus ~ Owned by Anja van den Hoek, Nederland
Barring on the hind legs is often concentrated on the back of the hock. Quite often, barring on the hind legs is most visible on the insides of the legs at the hock joint.

Center: Vjostar (Fjord stallion) - Copyright Hypofocus ~ Owned by Anja van den Hoek, Nederland
Along with a few leg bars on the front legs of this stallion, we also see a red patch on the forearm. This does not seem to be a commonly seen dun marking. Another example of a leg patch appears on this page in the (grulla) foal markings section.

Right: Amberfield's Dun Lovin (Morgan mare) - Brookridge Morgans
This mare's leg bars are all black, and it is clear that her leg points extend quite high on her legs. These are clues, along with other details, that she is possibly a brown dun.

Left: HCTF Lost In A Storm (Morgan mare) - Draconia Keep Morgans
The dorsal stripe on this mare is not clearly red. It appears more of a brown or brown red. This would generally indicate some sootiness or a light counter shading dorsal laying over top of the base (red) color along her spine.

Center: Robbi-Sue's Success Story (Morgan stallion) - R Anchor Morgans
Along with the deep red dorsal stripe on this bay dun, we can see small, red dorsal barbs on either side of the dorsal stripe.

Right: Vjostar (Fjord stallion) - Copyright Hypofocus ~ Owned by Anja van den Hoek, Nederland
This bay dun's dorsal is very obviously a bright red. On either side of the dorsal stripe, just before it enters the tail, we see what appears to be two red vertical marks. This is the first time the author has seen such markings.
Because the head is turned, we can easily see that the head and neck are darker than the body. The head being darker (retaining a bit more of the base color) is fairly common with the dun dilute colors.

Left: Amberfields Jazztime Moro (Morgan mare) - owned by Jackie Wyandt
The dorsal stripe on this mare is quite clearly a rich red in the enlarged version of the photo. This is quite typical for clear coated (non-sooty/non-counter shaded) bay based duns. Although this mare's leg barring is not visible on the hind legs, and only lightly barred on the front legs, she has a very classic bay dun dorsal, dun colored tailhead frosting, and her body color/tone is a very typically yellow-tan of a dun dilute.

Left: Finally Taters Tot (Morgan mare) - Copyright Deb Tompkins ~ Ragtime Morgans
The dorsal stripe on this mare appears black or nearly black. This may indicate that she is either a light to medium shade brown dun, or that she has some sootiness or a counter shading dorsal laying over top of the base (red) color along her spine.

Center: RCK Ragtime Tres Oros (Morgan stallion) - Mirabella Farms
This stallion's dorsal stripe appears to be black or nearly black. Along with other details that have been observed, the dark/black dorsal may indicate that he is a possible brown dun, of perhaps a medium expression of brown. In the photo, you will also see dark, extensive dorsal barbs along his very wide dorsal stripe. This stallion tested to be Crcr (one cream gene), so technically, he is (suspected to be) a "brown dunskin".

Right: Amberfield's Dun Lovin (Morgan mare) - Brookridge Morgans
Along with her dark/black dorsal stripe, the masking on her face appears blackish. On a bay dun, the masking would be red, not blackish. At foal shedding, she appeared more grulla looking than bay dun looking, indicating the strong possiblity that she is brown based, rather than bay based.
In the enlarged version of the above thumbnail photo, you will also see the dun colored mane and tail frosting (closely matching the body shade), and light ear tips.

Left: Finally Tuesday Morn (Morgan mare) - Copyright Deb Tompkins ~ owned by Carol Rehberger
The leg bars of this mare all appear to be black, except for the top two bars (just above the leg point) showing on her right front leg. It is too hard to tell for sure whether those are black or a darkish shade of red without close up photos. Note how the leg bars on the hind leg wrap around the back of the hock.

Center: PBS Starbuck (Quarter Horse stallion) - Preheim Bailey Stud
This young Quarter Horse stallion's leg points are an interesting mixture of red and black. This is probably due to his young age, and as he matures more, the black points may continue to fill with more black hair. You will note in the enlarged version of the photo that the uppermost leg bar on the right leg is not black, but a dark red.

Left: Vjostar (Fjord stallion) - Copyright Hypofocus ~ Owned by Anja van den Hoek, Nederland
The wither patch and neck cape on this stallion are very uncommon in the Fjord breed, from what his owner has told me. The markings are in shadow, so difficult to properly determine the exact shade, but they do appear to be a medium red-brown.

Center: Finally Taters Tot (Morgan mare) - Copyright Deb Tompkins ~ Ragtime Morgans
The wither patch and neck cape on this mare are quite clearly black. On a clear bay dun, these would be some shade of red or red-brown. This mare may be displaying some sootiness, or she may be a light to medium expression of brown dun.

Right: Cushman's Melanie Dun Sue (Morgan mare) - owned by Rhonda Sewell
The wither patch on this mare is red, as expected on a fairly clear coated bay dun dilute.

Left: Robbi-Sue's Success Story (Morgan stallion) - R Anchor Morgans
The wind has conveniently blown the dun diluted tail head hairs so that they are easily seen and can be compared to the body shade. Dun diluted tail head frosting is diluted to a shade very closely matching the body shade.

Center: HCTF Lost In A Storm (Morgan mare) - Draconia Keep Morgans
In the enlarged version of the above photo, you will be able to see the ventral stripe, which runs along the length of this young mare's belly.

Right: (Main Photo) Lineback Doubletake (Morgan stallion) - Daymark Farm
(Inset Photo) Robbi-Sue's Success Story (Morgan stallion) - R Anchor Morgans
The arrow in both the main photo and the inset photo point to markings in the girth area of both stallions. We were quite surprised to see these markings, as we had never before heard of "girth stripes" before. The stallion in the inset photo, Robbi-Sue's Success Story, is the sire of the stallion in the main photo, Lineback Doubletake.

Left: Yandidydle Quatro (Morgan gelding) - owned by Linnea Schultz-Ela
This young gelding may at first appear to be a bay dun because of the dark mane, but he is a red dun. His mane and tail are very dark, but he was born typical red dun foal color and does not have black leg points. His dorsal and extensive barbs are red.

Center: Yandidydle Quatro (Morgan gelding) - owned by Linnea Schultz-Ela
The wither patch and neck cape are both red.

Left: Finally Dun It (Morgan gelding) - copyright Deb Tompkins
Dunalinos will have red dorsals, varying greatly in lightness or darkness, depending upon the shade of the base (chestnut) color. This dunalino gelding's dorsal is fairly vivid, and easily seen. Very pale shade dunalinos may have dorsal stripes that are difficult to see except in certain seasonal coats.

Center: Finally Dun It (Morgan gelding) - copyright Deb Tompkins
The red leg bars on this gelding are not very extensive, nor are they very large/long.

All photos above are ~ Finally's Mr Amos (Morgan stallion) - Royal Gold Morgans

Left: The leg bars of this perlino stallion are quite easily seen. Their color appears to be black-ish, however the photo is shadowed.

Center: More recent photo of the same perlino's leg bars. The owner told me that the photo makes them a bit more rusty red than they really are, however, they are not black. It would seem that the presence of the second cream gene does affect the color of the dun markings. Where they would otherwise have been black, they will the rust-red of the perlino's leg points.

Right: The dorsal on this perlino appears red.

In this section, we will display photos of dun markings on various champagne + dun dilute colors as they become available.

Note: When alone or combined with one cream gene, the dun gene appears to prevent most, if not all, (cream & dun) dilution effects on the primitive markings. However, it is clear in these photos that the dun gene does not seem to be able to prevent the champange gene from diluting the primitive markings to at least some extent.

All three photos are ~ Riskey Streka Diamons (APHA/ICHR mare) - Rising Moon Ranch

Left: Front leg bars, diluted by the champagne gene, though still quite vividly expressed. Typical patterning of dun dilute leg bars on the front legs. Due to the high white markings on this young mare's hind legs, there are no visible hind leg bars.

Center: Dark dorsal, at least somewhat diluted by the champagne gene, as the dorsal is not black, but still very vividly expressed.

Right: Due to this young mare's tobiano gene, the dorsal is interrupted at the tailhead, but appears to "restart" within the tail.

All three photos are ~ Riskey Streka Diamons (APHA/ICHR mare) - Rising Moon Ranch

Left: Cobwebbing on the forehead appears to be at least somewhat diluted by the champagne gene.

Center: Extensive ear lining on the tops of the back side of the ears, which is common on dun dilute colors. The champagne gene has diluted the color.

Right: Dorsal, front leg barring, as well as mane frosting closely matching the diluted body coloring.

All three photos are ~ Riskey Streka Luck (APHA/ICHR stallion) - Rising Moon Ranch

Left: Dorsal, interrupted by white from the Pinto gene(s). At the arrow on the far right, you can see where a spot of color within the white marking shows just a tiny amount of the dorsal trying to continue. The wither barring is also vividly expressed. The arrow in the center of the back is pointing at some dorsal barbs.

Center: Front leg mottling. Due to his leg white, the barring is interrupted, leaving mostly just some dun mottling visible.

Right: Hind leg barring. Even with the extensive leg white, he has just enough color on his hind leg(s) to clearly see the very vivid "marbled" pattern of the leg bars across the back and sides of the hock.

Riskey Streka Luck (APHA/ICHR stallion) - Rising Moon Ranch

Left: Ear barring ~ Although the photo is a bit blurred, and the markings are not as dark as we generally see on other dun dilutes, this young stallion does have barring on his ears.

All three photos are ~ Dreamers Little Lena (AQHA/ICHR mare) - Rising Moon Ranch

Left: Dorsal, and mane and tail frosting.

Center: Front leg mottling. Due to Dreamer's leg points being diluted almost completely by the champagne gene, her leg bars are not as vivid as they would be on an amber dun whose leg points were not so diluted. However, the barring is still distinct enough, and of the typical dun leg bar pattern.

Right: Mane frosting and dorsal are obvious even in the above small version of this photo. Click to enlarge, and you should be able to see the light ear tip on the left ear more easily.

All three photos are ~ Vanzis Time To Rock (AQHA/ICHR mare) - Rising Moon Ranch

Left: Dorsal, and front leg barring.

Center: Front leg bars are rather pale due primarily to the red base color, but are still distinctively "dun" patterned.