He does sire a lot of chestnuts with white markings even though chestnut is apparently considered recessive genetically.tachyon wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 10:00 pm Here's another chestnut with a large white!
cot(JPN) - California Chrome(JPN) x Spring Festa(JPN)(1/2 to two-time JRA champion Curren Chan) by Zenno Rob Roy(JPN)
https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001090325/
Chrome has had a bunch of winners lately, a couple of whom look like they could step up into stakes company. They have won on both dirt and turf, in the slop and on fast or firm tracks, with one winner on Tapeta at Golden Gate. There is one bay filly named Striking Chrome who has won on both dirt and turf. She has raced 7 times with 3 wins, 1 place and 1 show. She is out of a mare by Smart Strike. Seems like Japanese breeders knew what they were doing when they brought Chrome over because they believed he could sire turf winners. Chrome has a top-level percentage of winners from runners, but no stakes winners yet. A filly named Decade (trained by Steve Asmussen), Striking Chrome and the three crop-leading 2-year-old colts in Chile might change that, hopefully.
Chrome, himself, didn't develop into a major stakes winner until he turned 3. So far, many of his offspring seem to be developing along that same pattern.
