The first placed coloured racehorse in the UK

I think you will find that most of the comments suggesting that the horse quit racing and found another job are indeed constructive because it clearly wasn't having any success at it's allocated job!
 
My friends got placed in a similar way to your horse AngroveStud (let's be honest, we all know its you) in a rowing regatta - they came second....out of TWO!

Not something to be proud of - last place. The horse was a dud racer, end of. Hopefully he's gone to a good home, ha his nuts chopped off and is being well looked after now his owner has a younger model to watch racing through rose tinted binoculars ;)
 
joysophia1 said:
Errrmmmmmm you don't know anything about horseracing do you? If the horse came in 999l behind it still got placed:p This is so funny seeing how much people DON'T know about horseracing but make out they do! Ha ha ha ha ha:p I'm so loving this! Ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Is there a point to this or have you just had a drink too many ?
 
Someone really has been on a wee tad too much of the vino and mixed with som jaegar bombs by the looks of it!

Yes ... I know nothing at all about racing ... Please enlighten me!
 
If parentage can be proven to be 7/8ths tb then yes the horse can race. In France they usually mix with Selle Francais to put substance back in for jumping. They alsl have their own races over there, called AQPS races.

Technically you can get any colour racehorse you like if you breed specifically for colour and have a lot of time to spend but generally if you are playing around with colour genetics then you wont want to be using good racehorses or ones with good breeding that are likelt to produce good offspring. The colour is a novelty and as has been shown by the 4 or 5 coloured horses to hit the track they show more of the speed of their gypsy cob distant relatives than their racing family.
 
I did think about posting on this way back when it began.... but when on earth did the bun fight occur - and what has happend to the poster who's quotes i can see loads of, but not the originals..... did all her posts get deleted ??
 
EKW said:
...as has been shown by the 4 or 5 coloured horses to hit the track they show more of the speed of their gypsy cob distant relatives than their racing family.
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When people are breeding coloured finer horses they don't normally use cobs to get the colour, they usually use American breeds such as saddlebreds (which themselves are high % TB). You need several generations and a fair amount of solid coloured 'wastage' in order to get to the magic 15/16ths though - I guess it depends on what your priorities are ;)

Although I'll give you that this particular chap's colour seems to come from a couple of UK/Irish trotter types.
 
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There are many 'colored' (either in the trad UK misuse of the word, or those with mutations and unusual presentations of sabino, cream etc) racehorses in the US, Aus, Japan etc, many of which are much more successful.

Candy Spots won the Preakness, Marumatsu Live had a relatively nice career, with lots of 2nds in hard races. Patchen Prince, in his relatively short career was placed 1st/2nd in 4/7 runs.

What we have here, IMO, is color first, talent later.
 
According to the 1950 register of British Thoroughbred stallions, Cacador, a sire of steeplechasers, is listed as skewbald, on Thoroughbred Pedigree Query as bay.
I have not been able to find a picture of Cacador, but as he was sired by Foxhunter, a chestnut with a lot of white on his head & legs, I presume he was a bay with lots of white rather than a true skewbald. Has anyone a picture?
 
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