Sodashi's foal

Video here as well.

Translation:
On January 30th, Sodashi gave birth to a healthy baby girl! The father is Equinox.
With still unsteady steps, the baby hopped around around its mother.
Sodashi received many charms from many people. Thank you very much!

※ This report was made on behalf of Kaneko Masato Holdings Co., Ltd.
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I love Sodashi and I’m thrilled to see a live, healthy foal on the floor but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bit disappointed in the colour. Was keeping everything crossed for another little white one.
 
Snowfilly said:
I love Sodashi and I’m thrilled to see a live, healthy foal on the floor but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bit disappointed in the colour. Was keeping everything crossed for another little white one.
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Sodashi is heterozygous for the dominant white mutation, she inherited it from buchiko. This baby girl is the spit of her daddy.
 
Clodagh said:
But you can’t breed white to white or the foal will have the lethal white gene and not survive.
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No, the lethal white is an overo gene. This is not an overo pattern and has no link to it, although it is present in some TB families. And even then LWO needs to be homozygous to be fatal, so you’ve got a 3/4 chance of a live foal if there’s an accidental mating - which shouldn’t happen of course but it does.

There’s loads of white genes, some of which cause patterning and others all over white. Some of the splashed white patterns have a risk of deafness but aside from the overo one, there’s no known health risks to them. They may actually be healthier than greys as the melanoma risk is absent, and they’re dark skinned so you don’t get the sunburn risks of double dilutes like cremellos.
 
Snowfilly said:
No, the lethal white is an overo gene. This is not an overo pattern and has no link to it, although it is present in some TB families. And even then LWO needs to be homozygous to be fatal, so you’ve got a 3/4 chance of a live foal if there’s an accidental mating - which shouldn’t happen of course but it does.

There’s loads of white genes, some of which cause patterning and others all over white. Some of the splashed white patterns have a risk of deafness but aside from the overo one, there’s no known health risks to them. They may actually be healthier than greys as the melanoma risk is absent, and they’re dark skinned so you don’t get the sunburn risks of double dilutes like cremellos.
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Ah! Thank you. Interesting.
 
In fact there was also a white colt born in Ireland, by Revoque who spooked some of the other foals at the sale ring! He was named The White Admiral and was trained by Nicky Henderson.He wasn't anywhere near as good as Russe Blanc, French bred who did well over here. I think his breeding may go back the French lady who ended up by using extreme inbreeding to create a line of white thoroughbreds
 
photo_jo said:
There's a white family in New Zealand- although most have ended up in Japan-they're out of The Opera House


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I want! They’re fairytale horses and nothing will convince me otherwise.

There’s a lot of coloured TBs in America, a couple of dilute and double dilute families around that seem to make nice dressage / eventing horses. There was a roan line in New Zealand but I think they’ve died out now. The whites seem to be mainly spontaneous mutations and pretty dominant when bred.

I know the theory is that the dilutes especially came into the breed fairly recently and when books were opened to non-TBs for breeding up for a bit, but if you look at a lot of the old old records you get names like ‘gold’ and ‘cream’ cropping up in the stud books and I often wonder what colour was in there to start with. Barbs are colourful, and there’s all sorts of odd colours around in the older European breeds, even if it’s mainly hidden by greys nowadays.
 
Snowfilly said:
I want! They’re fairytale horses and nothing will convince me otherwise.

There’s a lot of coloured TBs in America, a couple of dilute and double dilute families around that seem to make nice dressage / eventing horses. There was a roan line in New Zealand but I think they’ve died out now. The whites seem to be mainly spontaneous mutations and pretty dominant when bred.

I know the theory is that the dilutes especially came into the breed fairly recently and when books were opened to non-TBs for breeding up for a bit, but if you look at a lot of the old old records you get names like ‘gold’ and ‘cream’ cropping up in the stud books and I often wonder what colour was in there to start with. Barbs are colourful, and there’s all sorts of odd colours around in the older European breeds, even if it’s mainly hidden by greys nowadays.
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You're thinking of Catch A Bird aren't you?

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