horses with unique coloring/facial markings

Katewerk · Mon Jun 29, 2015 2:09 pm

You can trace that gene back to Lucky Two Bits (buckskin), but there's no sign of anything earlier... hmmm

Insane Crazy · Mon Jun 29, 2015 3:44 pm

Katewerk wrote:You can trace that gene back to Lucky Two Bits (buckskin), but there's no sign of anything earlier... hmmm

There's not even really any physical evidence that Lucky Two Bits was a buckskin (at least, I've never seen a photo of her) as she was registered a bay. It just is the most sensible possibility. There are a couple theories behind cream dilutes, the most prevalent being that:

(a) the gene existed in the breed since way back when but was eventually "hidden" among obscure horses who were registered as chestnuts, bays, and browns when they actually were ambiguous palominos, buckskins, and smokey brown/blacks.
(b) somewhere much more recently but before DNA testing, there was a non-thoroughbred breeding. Just as a example, it's possible that Lucky Two Bits was somehow sired by a cream dilute quarter horse, but the owner either wasn't aware (e.g., a stallion jumped the fence) or pretended he didn't know otherwise and just scribbled down a TB stud to get the JC registration. Or this could have happened to her sire/dam, grandsire/granddam, etc.

Both are possible but since there's little way to prove it either way, we just accept that Milkie and Glitter Please are enigmas who have contributed a splash of color to the breed.

Sorry for the history lesson if you already knew it -- I love cream dilutes and find the whole thing quite interesting. Some cool photo and information here: http://www.whitehorseproductions.com/cr ... ontbs.html

ThreeMustangs · Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:07 pm

Another photo from FB:

carole · Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:21 am

ThreeMustangs wrote:Another photo from FB:

Gosh! He looks like a Breyer model!

ThreeMustangs · Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:45 pm

Beautiful Devil, a 3yo white granddaughter of Patchen Beauty, won R4 at Belterra today. I can't find a photo of her, though.

Flanders · Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:56 pm

ThreeMustangs wrote:Beautiful Devil, a 3yo white granddaughter of Patchen Beauty, won R4 at Belterra today. I can't find a photo of her, though.

Ugh wish I wouldn't have watched that replay.

BlindLucky · Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:28 pm

Flanders wrote:
ThreeMustangs wrote:Beautiful Devil, a 3yo white granddaughter of Patchen Beauty, won R4 at Belterra today. I can't find a photo of her, though.
Ugh wish I wouldn't have watched that replay.

It was seriously ugly. Shockingly, the one who broke down was vanned off and the two who fell over her walked off on their own.

BlindLucky · Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:36 pm

ThreeMustangs wrote:Beautiful Devil, a 3yo white granddaughter of Patchen Beauty, won R4 at Belterra today. I can't find a photo of her, though.

From today:

From her June 20 debut:

BlindLucky · Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:47 pm

Takemetohollywood is a full brother to Beautiful Devil. Can you guys view these images? If not, I can download and repost--he's really cute:

ThreeMustangs · Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:59 pm

I can view them--thanks for posting.

Flanders · Sat Jul 04, 2015 8:17 pm

Thank you for the pics!

Katewerk · Sat Jul 04, 2015 9:06 pm

thrilledtothemax.jpg

Thrilledtothemax, easy winner of the 1st at Marquis Downs last evening, was not so thrilled about the saddling paddock.

Pedigree is interesting. http://www.pedigreequery.com/thrilledtothemax

Plenilune · Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:33 pm

White Filly Beautiful Devil Carries Tradition

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... -tradition

Flanders · Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:11 pm

Lots of pics of Passionforfashion, a white filly by Old Fashioned out of the very colorful Trust N Luck, at http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... ning-heads

sweettalk · Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:43 pm

Flanders wrote:Lots of pics of Passionforfashion, a white filly by Old Fashioned out of the very colorful Trust N Luck, at http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... ning-heads

she's out of turf club, trust n luck is her damsire

lurkey mclurker · Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:02 pm

She's nicely built, eh?

Flanders · Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:25 am

sweettalk wrote:
Flanders wrote:Lots of pics of Passionforfashion, a white filly by Old Fashioned out of the very colorful Trust N Luck, at http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... ning-heads
she's out of turf club, trust n luck is her damsire

Yep that is what I get for posting on 1 1/2 hours sleep.

sweettalk · Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:38 am

we've all been there, flanders!

as an aside, i remember reading when turf club was born and haven't thought of her in a couple years. cool to see her pop up again.

Rainyday · Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:29 pm

I have the vague memory someone reported here that Turf Club had a white filly by Old Fashioned, back when she was a foal, but these are the first pictures I've seen of her.

She's one of the nicest looking white TBs I've seen, I think. It'd be nice if she could run a bit.

Retrospectiv · Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:06 pm

Wooo, sportin' some white here

https://www.facebook.com/taylormadeadva ... =1&theater