horses with unique coloring/facial markings

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ThreeMustangs wrote:White filly foaled in Australia. She's by High Chaparral out of the white Zabeel mare The Opera House (from the Windsor Park Stud FB page):
Now a yearling:

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Check out the blaze-and-a-half on this Lemon Drop Kid colt. :o
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2015 filly(JPN) - Harbinger(GB) x Luz Abi(JPN)(full to Japanese Derby winner Deep Sky) by Agnes Tachyon(JPN)

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BlindLucky wrote:Takemetohollywood is a full brother to Beautiful Devil.
He broke his maiden today in Belterra R5.

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ThreeMustangs wrote:
BlindLucky wrote:Takemetohollywood is a full brother to Beautiful Devil.
He broke his maiden today in Belterra R5.
I've never seen a white Thoroughbred up close. Do they always look sooooooooo pink?
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A TB has a pretty fine hair coat and, when the hair is white like that, the color of the underlying skin really shows through.
He's a gorgeous horse, but his coloring leaves him vulnerable to sunburn....and skin cancers. :(
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If it's a summer coat or clipped or wet, or even just in certain light, the underlying pink skin can really be noticeable.

ETA: I was writing while BA was posting, it seems. :mrgreen: And yeah, I was going to say "lots of sunscreen in his future..."
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Nathaniel - Silver Sycamore (Exchange Rate) yearling offered at the Arqana sale in France. He sold today for EUR 42,000. I would love to see his other side.

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BaroqueAgain1
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He's a rabicano, right? I wonder if there is an official description for the white mark down his shoulder? IIRC, if the coloring were reversed, it would be called a 'bloody shoulder.'
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BaroqueAgain1 wrote:He's a rabicano, right? I wonder if there is an official description for the white mark down his shoulder? IIRC, if the coloring were reversed, it would be called a 'bloody shoulder.'
Not a rabicano. This looks more like a weird expression of dominant white over a grey coat. Rabicano is characterized by a skunk tail and mottled, stripy white lines on the belly usually. When really extensive it tends to be confused with Roan.

Typical Rabicano
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more moderate rabicano
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Extensive Rabicano
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Max Rabicano
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Dominate White can go from anywhere as being a pure white thoroughbred to the more reduced expressions. Additionally there are about 11 known variations of spontaneous mutations of Dominate White many of which are found in TBs.

Puchilingui
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Sato the palomino thoroughbred who is a son of Puchilingui is often talked about as being Sabino, but he has tested as dominant white.
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Sato's son Simba Twist also has similar vertical markings on top of the usual Sabino 'splashy' expressions.
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Airdrie Appache hasn't been tested but again has that vertical pattern thing going on.
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A filly named Ruffian...

Eine Stute namens Danedream...

Une pouliche se nommant Trêve...

Kincsem nevű kanca...


And a Queen named Beholder
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Thanks for all the cool...and educational...photos, Treve.
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BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Thanks for all the cool...and educational...photos, Treve.
You're welcome, I have a weird fascination with equine colour genetics :D (And genetics in general, particularly equine, canine and human).
It can be tricky identifying patterns because genetically speaking we're only JUST starting to isolate the responsible genes for some of them. Add to the fact that Thoroughbreds and Arabians for example traditionally are very conservative in their registries about colour names (and in arabians for a very long time if a horse had any kind of white on the belly it would be hidden or not noted on the papers) and you end up with a lot of confusion.
A filly named Ruffian...

Eine Stute namens Danedream...

Une pouliche se nommant Trêve...

Kincsem nevű kanca...


And a Queen named Beholder
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Treve wrote:
BaroqueAgain1 wrote:He's a rabicano, right? I wonder if there is an official description for the white mark down his shoulder? IIRC, if the coloring were reversed, it would be called a 'bloody shoulder.'
Not a rabicano. This looks more like a weird expression of dominant white over a grey coat. Rabicano is characterized by a skunk tail and mottled, stripy white lines on the belly usually. When really extensive it tends to be confused with Roan.
It's a little weird for DW though, yeah? I get where you're coming from but it just looks so...strange. Especially since it seems that DW *generally* starts on the legs and face, similar to sabino (though Airdrie Appache sure has some neat things going on down his legs!). Maybe a somatic mutation of some sort? A patch that was "coded" to grey faster than the rest, or something.

I live for this sort of stuff. Thanks for giving me a reason to nerd out on Simba Twist again. ;)
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no, but a race where they sit down right on the horse!
Like to see some stuck-up jockey boy sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil? Well, I should say!
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Insane Crazy wrote:
Treve wrote:
BaroqueAgain1 wrote:He's a rabicano, right? I wonder if there is an official description for the white mark down his shoulder? IIRC, if the coloring were reversed, it would be called a 'bloody shoulder.'
Not a rabicano. This looks more like a weird expression of dominant white over a grey coat. Rabicano is characterized by a skunk tail and mottled, stripy white lines on the belly usually. When really extensive it tends to be confused with Roan.
It's a little weird for DW though, yeah? I get where you're coming from but it just looks so...strange. Especially since it seems that DW *generally* starts on the legs and face, similar to sabino (though Airdrie Appache sure has some neat things going on down his legs!). Maybe a somatic mutation of some sort? A patch that was "coded" to grey faster than the rest, or something.

I live for this sort of stuff. Thanks for giving me a reason to nerd out on Simba Twist again. ;)
Simba Twist is soooo drool worthy. Ugh, what a heartthrob.

Yeah it's not at all that common for DW, which is why I said it looks more like a weird expression of it... But who knows you may be right, perhaps the patch just greyed faster (maybe in utero even?) than the rest! And whoever said the thing about the bleeding shoulder is right, there's a neat legend about bleeding shoulders in Arabians :D
A filly named Ruffian...

Eine Stute namens Danedream...

Une pouliche se nommant Trêve...

Kincsem nevű kanca...


And a Queen named Beholder
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2016 filly(JPN) - Harbinger(GB) x En Ciel Bleu(JPN) by Manhattan Cafe(JPN) (1/16)

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tachyon wrote:2016 filly(JPN) - Harbinger(GB) x En Ciel Bleu(JPN) by Manhattan Cafe(JPN) (1/16)

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at Yano Bokujo (Farm)
Is there a word in Japanese for "Unibrow?" :lol:
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The white filly by High Chaparral out of the white mare The Opera House was sold to Hideo Takadaru for $450,000 at the National Yearling Sale at Karaka,New Zealand.

http://www.theinformant.co.nz/racing/XK ... for-450000
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Sunline wrote:The white filly by High Chaparral out of the white mare The Opera House was sold to Hideo Takadaru for $450,000 at the National Yearling Sale at Karaka,New Zealand.

http://www.theinformant.co.nz/racing/XK ... for-450000
She's striking and has a very nice pedigree. They seem quite excited to get her. I wish them the best.
The High Chaparral filly’s long-term future lies in Japan, but her proud new owner has not yet made a decision on what to do with her in the interim.
“I want her to be a broodmare in Japan and to breed her to Deep Impact,” he said. “I have not decided yet whether she will race here or in Japan.”
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Sunline wrote:The white filly by High Chaparral out of the white mare The Opera House was sold to Hideo Takadaru for $450,000 at the National Yearling Sale at Karaka,New Zealand.

http://www.theinformant.co.nz/racing/XK ... for-450000
Thanks Sunline for the update. :D
Hideo Takadaru has had such grade stakes winners as ;

Skip Jack(JPN) http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000733290/
Dear Yamato(JPN) http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000884983/
Red Agate(JPN) http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000887572/
Dear Geena(JPN) http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000987542/
Dear Domus(JPN) http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001155319/
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This is about as golden bay as you could possibly be without being called buckskin... :lol:
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