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Very cool transformation! I love pangare+, mushroom, and DP together.

He's gorgeous, and his first crop of foals are lovely. Thanks so much for recording and sharing his transformation in the GMT lab. It was fun to follow the changes.

@Humboldt, Thanks! Me too, that combo very quickly became my favorite, maybe even more so than DP sooty+ brown buckskins. ND1 makes a big difference too. I love it when I can get a horse really dark on the topline and really light underneath with a nice dapply gradient in between.

@MiaMoo, Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the transformation. Yeah, Cherry Drops make wonderful GMT projects. I pretty much always want hom DP anyway and a Cherry Drop gives you a great head start.

@SandyCreekAcres, So glad you enjoyed following the transformation. :) At first I was just saving the pictures for myself, but then I thought they could make a really nice "debut" post. I really love this first crop of foals too, and I'm kinda kicking myself for altering and auctioning all the c/yellow papered ones. I should have kept them for some pretty show ponies, but I've never really gotten around to starting a proper show string. I've only haphazardly kept a few speldings and sometimes remember to show them. Those other foals were pretty enough I might have remembered to go look at them and show them more often.

@Forestshadow, I'm curious, if you don't like wild bays, why do you like Cherry Drops, but not as GMT projects? What would you do with them except GMT them? I don't care for wild bay either, it might actually be my least favorite gene in the game (though I recently found I don't hate it when it's with Onyx, especially if it's a really rich red), but Cherry Drops were the only hom DP foundations I had when the GMT lab sale was on. At first I was looking for a Freaky Friday, but then I figured getting rid of the wild bay wasn't so expensive, no worse than getting rid of the hom frame on a Freaky Friday. Actually, even though the wild bay wouldn't show on Morel, I gave him hom brown anyway so I can cross him with my true breeding blacks/silver blacks for some nice dark het browns. :)

Now that I've really started GMTing, I'm so excited for this next breeding season! I might actually pull some straws to use so I can get more than 50 breedings out of him. I've pretty much exclusively done pasture breeding in the past, except when I've been gifted straws. Now, maybe I'll even get a premium upgrade so I can flush my best hom DP mares for even more of those crosses...? ;)