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This darker 'palomino' variation may look like a light chestnut, but the 5049 chestnut has darker mane and tail than it's body.
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In the later years of Quarter Horse Mare a Mexico stamp was added. It is said Breyer had plans to start or move production over there, but they never actually got to it.
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It seems to me that in the last years of the first series, the palomino Quarter Horses gradually turned out more yellow-ish.
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The chestnut QHM was only produced in the very first year of the Stablemates, and is therefore very rare. If mane and tail are not darker, but self-coloured or lighter, it's as good as certain to be the much more common 5048, which often looks more like a flaxen, or even self-coloured chestnut, than a palomino.
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