I think alot of us have fallen for horses that on paper are absolutely the wrong/not the right type for us. But they worm their way in and become heart horses.
I've had a little flutter on £2 ew on corach rambler (purely cause I backed him last year)
And £2ew on late night pass (I work nights so seemed fitting)
Also some of the rudd are hatched as plain brown fish, so could of been hiding for awhile. They change colour as they get older.
When I had a pond in the past we stocked it with 6 brown rudd. 1 year later we had 3 brown rudd, 1 brown and orange and 2 orange.