Gingerwitch
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Genuine question, i dont think i have ever seen a coloured tb - is this to do with the breeding line ie the gene never introduced or is it something else ?
thanks
GW
thanks
GW
You sort of can, but not entirely; You can breed a coloured with a tb and after 6 (I think) generations of cross breeding with tbs the offspring will be accepted as a TB, so there are coloured tbs, as there are pallys, etc, but they are the result of crossbreeding.
I LOVE the brindle horse! Fabulous.
I am all for coloured horses, and I think, although may take some getting used to, that we will see many coloured racehorses in the years to come. It may not be everyones cup of tea, but it WILL attract the public eyes. Surely that is a good thing for the sport?
Glad you like my brindle - although when we bought her she was just a plain chesnut with a big white splodge on her side (hence the stable name "Splodge"). As the years have gone on (she's now 9 years old), the splodge gets a brighter white during the summer months and from March onwards (through to another couple of weeks time), she is covered in what we describe as tiger stripes. (You should have seen her about 6 weeks ago - it was very weird!) During the summer they are at their strongest in colour. Come November time, the stripes start to fade although don't disappear completely, and the following year, back they all come - and more and more each year. Apparently we're told this is normal with brindles as indeed is the fact that as she gets older, she's got more.
We always thought she was just a "weird" colour as indeed did our vets and the TB studs we've visited (Darley, Cheveley Park, National Stud etc) and these studs have sometimes given her a strange look when she's arrived for her walk-in covering.
She's had four foals so far - the oldest is 3 years old - (born chesnut) is in race training at present and this year has started getting white patches on both her sides. The two year old is in training in France and was born bay and we haven't seen a recent photo of her to know what colouring she is now. The yearling colt is at home - he was born bay - and apart from being the image of his sire - also has white in his tail and has white flecks in his hind quarters. And then this years filly foal already has white hair over one side of her face which she wasn't born with and already seeing some white hairs over her body appearing.
This mare is totally a full Thoroughbred - no crosses in her at all. She does have American blood in her (so maybe this is where the colouring comes from,), but Splodge's TB ancestry can be traced all the way back from the very start.
Glad you like the colour.
Give me a good bay, grey or chestnut anyday!
I LOVE the brindle horse! Fabulous.
I am all for coloured horses, and I think, although may take some getting used to, that we will see many coloured racehorses in the years to come. It may not be everyones cup of tea, but it WILL attract the public eyes. Surely that is a good thing for the sport?
SusannaF no she is not a Chimera we went to a breeder of Brindle who has confrmed she is a Brindle
While I totaly respect you personal opinion EKW I wonder how many top showing people said that 30+ years ago when myself and others set out to promote the coloured horse in GB for my sins I worked hard to get the very first class's for coloured horses at the Cheshire show and Wow there was an extra 10k people at the gate because I got TV crews radio to do PR before the Event, this was just one show look at them now it make's me so proud to have gven my help, I hope I have enough energy to do the same one more time I will die trying.
Joeanne & Sibbystar thank you if you like ! then it will happen ........................
SusannaF no she is not a Chimera we went to a breeder of Brindle who has confrmed she is a Brindle