horses with unique coloring/facial markings

RuffiantoRags · Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:29 pm

Retrospectiv wrote:Wooo, sportin' some white here

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

Yeah, I saw her in the ring, beautiful, but I thought she would bring more than what she did.

sweettalk · Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:32 pm

something about the way her body flows going towards her rump just looks off. maybe it's her actual hind end itself?

or maybe she's standing funny or going through a growth stage. she just looks funky.

RuffiantoRags · Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:31 pm

sweettalk wrote:something about the way her body flows going towards her rump just looks off. maybe it's her actual hind end itself?

or maybe she's standing funny or going through a growth stage. she just looks funky.

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I agree, I actually don't like her hind end, usually the hind end is higher at this age.

Macaroni · Mon Jul 20, 2015 11:40 am

This isn't a racehorse, but saw this online just now and thought it was very cool/worth sharing:

"This Foal Was Born with His Own Perfect White Shadow"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l-facebook

Insane Crazy · Mon Jul 20, 2015 11:47 am

RuffiantoRags wrote:
sweettalk wrote:something about the way her body flows going towards her rump just looks off. maybe it's her actual hind end itself?

or maybe she's standing funny or going through a growth stage. she just looks funky.
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I agree, I actually don't like her hind end, usually the hind end is higher at this age.

She almost looks like she has a roach back. Very peculiar.

Flanders · Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:25 pm

All Included, 4yo colt (Include - Eximius(GB), by Atticus) Eximius is a daughter of G1SW Gorgeous

BaroqueAgain1 · Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:27 pm

Wow. That takes flaxen mane and tail to a whole 'nother level.

Flanders · Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:44 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Wow. That takes flaxen mane and tail to a whole 'nother level.

Yeah, I'm wondering if he is a rabiciano.

Treve · Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:50 pm

Could be gulastra plume maybe? (I can't remember if it only shows up over the Extension gene or if shows up on chestnuts too).

More pictures could betray the rabi if we can find any white hairs.

Macaroni · Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:37 am

This may have been posted already (sorry if it was), but this is 2YO filly Painting The Sky, by Yankee Gentleman o/o Lone Star Quest, currently in training:

BaroqueAgain1 · Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:24 pm

What is Painting the Sky's official Jockey Club color? White?

Macaroni · Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:45 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:What is Painting the Sky's official Jockey Club color? White?

Pedigreequery and Equibase both list her as chestnut, surprisingly...

(past that I know nothing)

BaroqueAgain1 · Mon Jul 27, 2015 2:52 pm

Chestnut?

That just makes me imagine that whoever got the filly's papers...and her photos...metaphorically threw up their hands, hauled out the Jockey Club Color Wheel Dartboard, and tossed a dart at it. Wherever the dart landed, that was going to be her 'official' registration color.

lurkey mclurker · Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:43 pm

For a chestnut with dominant white, that's a very black-looking eartip. I would've thought bay, based on that pic. Huh.

Macaroni · Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:37 pm

lurkey mclurker wrote:For a chestnut with dominant white, that's a very black-looking eartip. I would've thought bay, based on that pic. Huh.

Also what I would've thought. Very strange.

lurkey mclurker · Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:45 pm

The pic on Pedigree Query shows a different angle & just makes me keep thinking bay. But maybe the base coat was more suspect when she was registered...

http://www.pedigreequery.com/painting+the+sky

Macaroni · Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:18 am

Another filly. The person who took the picture said her name is Pied and True, but nothing comes up when I search for her on Equibase:

Insane Crazy · Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:24 am

lurkey mclurker wrote:The pic on Pedigree Query shows a different angle & just makes me keep thinking bay. But maybe the base coat was more suspect when she was registered...

http://www.pedigreequery.com/painting+the+sky

Yeah, that mane sure looks black to me. With both of her parents being bay or whatever the Jockey Club feels inspired to call brown (damside's first chestnut is back four generations!), the cocktail of extension and agouti genes genes swirling around in there just seem too numerous to create a plain ol' chestnut under all that white.

Someone on PedigreeQuery is equally puzzled, as her dam's profile has a note "Dam of 2013 bay (?could be chestnut) dominant White (pinto) filly." Unless that was one of you guys.

ETA: Pied and True, wow! Very neat. Looks like a reverse bloody shoulder....so is it a somatic mutation turning "on" the grey gene? Or did someone spill the bleach?

luvthesales · Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:36 pm

Macaroni wrote:Another filly. The person who took the picture said her name is Pied and True, but nothing comes up when I search for her on Equibase:

Pied N True

Macaroni · Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:21 pm

Thaaat'll do it, I'll let the lady who posted it know. Thanks!