horses with unique coloring/facial markings

[Le Beau Bai]

Very pretty filly I saw on Twitter, photo by @wickhamwicks.

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[Mylute]

Sweet Ride (Deep Field × How Sweet It Is) finished sixth in the ATC Rosebud Stakes.

https://www.breednet.com.au/news/16430/ ... deep-field

[BaroqueAgain1]

Ohana Honor colt out of Spacy Tracy...just a gorgeous boy. I love his face - the blaze starts in the middle of his face, it’s so unique - at least to me. His tail is glorious...
He’s been working really well, but sadly is the AE in the maiden race at the Spa on Saturday, so he’ll probably have to run next week.

The 9 scratched in the 7th at Saratoga, the 6-furlong MSW for 2yos, so it looks like Ohana Honor will be running. Good luck.

[Mylute]

Second picture in the slide is of Hayayakko (by King Kamehameha), who is showing a white mask over his base gray color. You don't normally see this because he wears blinkers. Very pretty.
https://www.instagram.com/p/ChWZ8adPeFP/

Tyrrhenian Sea (by Dark Angel) looks like Stainless Steel but has a striking pale mane.
https://twitter.com/thebreedingshed/sta ... 9833745409
https://twitter.com/GBRacing/status/1560302192531312644

Kazakh-bred mare Aybarsha (by Bremen) is basically palomino. She is at 34:30 and she won the race. She is sired by a US-bred son of Lemon Drop Kid, her dam was bred in Ukraine, and her damsire was bred in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSnur1dqSdQ

[Palace Malice]

Kazakh-bred mare Aybarsha (by Bremen) is basically palomino. She is at 34:30 and she won the race. She is sired by a US-bred son of Lemon Drop Kid, her dam was bred in Ukraine, and her damsire was bred in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSnur1dqSdQ

It's called flaxen chestnut. There are no palomino TBs that are racing horses.

[Le Beau Bai]

Kazakh-bred mare Aybarsha (by Bremen) is basically palomino. She is at 34:30 and she won the race. She is sired by a US-bred son of Lemon Drop Kid, her dam was bred in Ukraine, and her damsire was bred in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSnur1dqSdQ

It's called flaxen chestnut. There are no palomino TBs that are racing horses.

That’s not strictly correct, they are just incredibly rare. Regalo Del Oro is JC registered as palomino.

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[brunanas]

Kazakh-bred mare Aybarsha (by Bremen) is basically palomino. She is at 34:30 and she won the race. She is sired by a US-bred son of Lemon Drop Kid, her dam was bred in Ukraine, and her damsire was bred in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSnur1dqSdQ

It's called flaxen chestnut. There are no palomino TBs that are racing horses.

That’s not strictly correct, they are just incredibly rare. Regalo Del Oro is JC registered as palomino.

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Zillionair and his own sire Issue of Gold are also registered palominos.

[Palace Malice]

It's called flaxen chestnut. There are no palomino TBs that are racing horses.

That’s not strictly correct, they are just incredibly rare. Regalo Del Oro is JC registered as palomino.

25CE47BC-87F7-4646-A140-EBBEC8653405.jpeg

Zillionair and his own sire Issue of Gold are also registered palominos.

They are mostly sport horses though. Almost all of them never raced or were unsuccessful.

[Flanders]

That’s not strictly correct, they are just incredibly rare. Regalo Del Oro is JC registered as palomino.

25CE47BC-87F7-4646-A140-EBBEC8653405.jpeg

Zillionair and his own sire Issue of Gold are also registered palominos.

They are mostly sport horses though. Almost all of them never raced or were unsuccessful.

Calumet bought some palomino mares that they bred to their stallions. I saw one of the resultant foals on the Eclipse Awards.

[brunanas]

That’s not strictly correct, they are just incredibly rare. Regalo Del Oro is JC registered as palomino.

25CE47BC-87F7-4646-A140-EBBEC8653405.jpeg

Zillionair and his own sire Issue of Gold are also registered palominos.

They are mostly sport horses though. Almost all of them never raced or were unsuccessful.

but they were still bred to be racehorses, so they do exist, although they are rare.

[brunanas]

Zillionair and his own sire Issue of Gold are also registered palominos.

They are mostly sport horses though. Almost all of them never raced or were unsuccessful.

Calumet bought some palomino mares that they bred to their stallions. I saw one of the resultant foals on the Eclipse Awards.

Calumet is into color breeding now? that's new.

[Flanders]

They are mostly sport horses though. Almost all of them never raced or were unsuccessful.

Calumet bought some palomino mares that they bred to their stallions. I saw one of the resultant foals on the Eclipse Awards.

Calumet is into color breeding now? that's new.

They were, I don't know if they still do it. They stood Risque Remarque for some time.

[Miss Woodford]

I think I've shared my own opinion on the subject here before so I'll just note that while there have been several successful dominant-white and pinto TBs on the track, not a single palomino/buckskin/cremello/perlino Thoroughbred has so much as finished on the board in an actual horse race, even when they have racing lines mixed into their pedigree. It's almost like the two palomino "Thoroughbred" stallions that magically appeared in the mid-20th century that every dilute TB traces back to weren't actually pure Thoroughbred...

[Palace Malice]

I think I've shared my own opinion on the subject here before so I'll just note that while there have been several successful dominant-white and pinto TBs on the track, not a single palomino/buckskin/cremello/perlino Thoroughbred has so much as finished on the board in an actual horse race, even when they have racing lines mixed into their pedigree. It's almost like the two palomino "Thoroughbred" stallions that magically appeared in the mid-20th century that every dilute TB traces back to weren't actually pure Thoroughbred...

Option1 : Thoroughbreds were mixed with others breds and that's why the colored ones are not good racers. (Like you said)
Option2 : There were indeed colored thoroughbreds back in the days but they were not good racers/breeders so they became rarer and rarer...
Option3: Racing people always preferred the plain chestnuts, bays and browns (apparently some people still believe that chromey horses with socks and blazes aren't as good... this is sad)

[MissNMecke]

I think I've shared my own opinion on the subject here before so I'll just note that while there have been several successful dominant-white and pinto TBs on the track, not a single palomino/buckskin/cremello/perlino Thoroughbred has so much as finished on the board in an actual horse race, even when they have racing lines mixed into their pedigree. It's almost like the two palomino "Thoroughbred" stallions that magically appeared in the mid-20th century that every dilute TB traces back to weren't actually pure Thoroughbred...

Option1 : Thoroughbreds were mixed with others breds and that's why the colored ones are not good racers. (Like you said)
Option2 : There were indeed colored thoroughbreds back in the days but they were not good racers/breeders so they became rarer and rarer...
Option3: Racing people always preferred the plain chestnuts, bays and browns (apparently some people still believe that chromey horses with socks and blazes aren't as good... this is sad)

My guess is that it's a combination of options 2 and 3. Colored thoroughbreds have always been rare. So considering how many of the 'plain' TB's are not successful, it's not that surprising that none of the the 'pretties' have been record-breakers. And if you think about other breeds, it's not all that different. Greys have been nearly eliminated from standardbred lines. As for quarter horses? Duns, palominos, buckskins, and roans are common in the breed, but they've been nearly completely bred out of the racing lines. (Even though at least two palominos were world champions in the not-too-distant past.) In thoroughbreds, grey horses are becoming less common than they were years ago, in spite of Tapit being one of the priciest stallions out there. It seems as if we are likely destined to a future of watching fields full of look-alikes, only distinguishable by silks and saddlecloths, with the rare 'Ohhhh, that one has a blaze!' thrown in.

[Mylute]

2021 c. Half Ours × Sammy Van Ammy (Van Nistelrooy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... =emb_title

He looks like he didn't sleep the night before.

[Mylute]

The above Half Ours colt sold for $350K to Carl Moore.

[Mylute]

Captain Yenner (by Bahamian Squall) has some "rabicano" markings and a unique blaze.
https://archive.ph/FSOce

[Mylute]

The #9 in Kentucky Downs' fourth race Pappy Wolfe (Justify) has a kind of gulastra plume. He managed to not finish last, which I thought he would because he broke very slow and acted like he just wanted to gallop around.

[CoronadosQuest]

Home Cooking's face marking is just so interesting!

https://twitter.com/A_Evers/status/1568 ... 28/photo/4