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Article: horse WHISPERS.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Byline: ROSEMARY DUNNAGE
PARENTS might invest in property, the stock market or perhaps art, to help give their children a flying start in life. But a couple from North Wales are taking a more intriguing approach - prospecting for gold in the hills around their home in Prion near Denbigh.
Their El Dorado is to be found not in the mineral but in horses: palominos, to be precise, whose glorious golden colour was once likened to "a newly minted golden sovereign".
Sue and Peter Salter wanted a solid future business for their son Edward and so 10 years ago set up a Welsh cob and pony stud.
Their idea is to breed palominos consistently from ...