Colour expert people (sorry no pics)

[Karran]

I was looking through some old photos and remembered a horse I met at a dressage competition when I was younger, I've never seen anything like him before, and I'm sure I took a picture at the time, but this is going back 15 years or so ( ) and I can't seem to find it anywhere, nor a google picture to help but if I can describe it, maybe you can tell me what he'd be?

He was basically a coloured heavyweight cob, pretty evenly marked from what I remember. If he was solidly marked, he would have been a really heavily patterned flea bitten grey. I remember how they seemed really vividly red spots and stood out.

Kinda like the deeper markings on this.

I know its not much to go on, but I've been curious now and can't find any links to discover what it was!

Can offer some left over chicken chow mein and lemon cheesecake!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Probably a grey tobiano, only the grey patches were fleabitten. As the fleabites were chestnut, he would have been a chestnut tobiano when he was a foal, but due to the grey gene - greyed out as he got older.

 

[Thistle]

they could be 'blood' marks

 

[Karran]

Thistle - what are they exactly? I googled a picture and it looks like a splodge of paint on a horse, and these were definately more spotty.

Faracat - would the spots fade away as he aged or would they stay? The two fleabitten horses I knew stayed spotty all their lives so I assume that'd be the same in this case?

Wish I could find the picture! He really was an unusual and stunning horse!

 

[Sparkles]

Red roan and white?

Or a blagdon variation?

 

[Karran]

Red roan and white?

Or a blagdon variation?

Nope def fleabites

I don't really "get" all the blagdon variations but I understood them to be the blue roany and white coloured cobs?

 

[Sparkles]

Blagdon can be any colour, not just blue. Red, pink, champagne, blue etc

 

[Karran]

Blagdon can be any colour, not just blue. Red, pink, champagne, blue etc

*goes off to google*
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Yes!

He looked a lot like this, only more evenly marked.

Thank you I can stop being confused now

 

[Sparkles]

Haha no problem! Had a feeling it would be something along them lines. I've been trailing through cobby pics to try and find one for you, but I shall stop now

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Blagdon is caused by the sabino gene and is only really known as blagdon when it is concerning cobs or heavy horses rather than arabs, Tb's etc...

RE Fleabites. Once a horse starts to be fleabitten, they actually get more spots as they age.

Here's Tractor's lovely cob (sorry I could only find a head shot). Was the cob you saw like this?

 

[Jewkes]

Blimy he's gorgeous!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Blimy he's gorgeous!

Hopefully Tractor will see this and post a full body photo. He/she (the cob) had some very striking, densely fleabitten areas and is possibly close to the OP's description of the mystery horse.

 

[Karran]

The horse I remember looks more like the picture I posted, except it was more clearly defined flea-bite coloured patches. I still can't find the photo sorry.

Tractor's horse looks lovely!

Also while googling I found this lovely boy. If I was a mare I'd want him to be the Daddy of my foals

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Was the horse anything like this colourwise?

Chestnut sabino.

 

[Karran]

no

More like this. Perhaps combined with the blagdon cob earlier?

I'm sorry its so vague!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

 

[Karran]

YES! Just like that!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

He's a chestnut sabino tobiano.

 

[Karran]

Thank you! You must have put a lot of time into googling!