Your correct on your assumption. Lots of MX motors are 55-65 ish. Most dune porting tends to make motors in the 70-85 hp. Granted these numbers are if the rest of the set up package is there. An MX motor should have a pretty linear curve from bottom through mid and taper off a bit abrupt through 8500-9,000 in my opinion. Maybe with the right tweaks it could fall off less abrupt and more gradual.
A dune motor should be pretty strong from the transition off the bottom end through to the top end with a minimal fall off feeling at the top. Albeit many dune motors now a days with 4mil cranks and porting, compression, and timing are pulling stumps from way down low and charge hard well past 9,000. It really is pretty crazy what guys are getting these things to do compared to 20 years ago.
As for your question about an trail/ MX port vs. Drag port. The MX port will be more suited to coming on and delivering power from what feels like idle through half throttle with somewhat less pull through the rest. The power is much broader and feels much more snappy. Compared to a typical drag set up, they are more suited to half to full wide open throttle. If you were to ride a. Good drag set up you can feel the throttle response is a bit less and it feels like the motor is much more tame in the bottom till the intake exhaust velocity gets up there a bit. Then it starts to really charge till it's redlined.
The thing is, so many builders do things different so one guys aggressive trail port is another guys dune port. Call and talk to a few different guys and see what they say matches what you want. Ask them about what you need and how they think it should be dialed in.