What Colour is my horse? pink?

We got him when he was 9, he's now 21 and id say he's still the same pinkness, he goes abit darker in winter, but still very pink all year round!
 
Flyermc said:
We got him when he was 9, he's now 21 and id say he's still the same pinkness, he goes abit darker in winter, but still very pink all year round!
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OK, he looks like a Chestnut Sabino then. Quite a roany one, but not a true Roan (he doesn't look like he has the Roan gene).
 
Thank you, i did wonder about him being a strawberry roan as he doesnt have a solid coloured mane/tail. I think he'll probably always get called pink! : )
 
I should add that Blagdon is another name for a particular form of Sabino. So you can call him Chestnut Blagdon or Chestnut Sabino - they are both correct for your horse. :)
 
It's a British term for a roany Sabino, often used when the horse is a gypsy cob or Clydesdale. I've never heard it used for sabino arabs, for example, which can also be roany sabinos.

Sabinos can be minimal sabinos with only a tiny white star or sock, or they can be maximum sabinos, where the whole horse is white. You can get pretty much everything in between too. Sabino can cause white flecks in the coat (roaning). It causes white markings with jagged edges.
 
So would my horse be sabino ? He is cheshunt ..with white flecks ? Flaxen mane white legs with splashes ( posted photos of him yesterday in the pony thread in picture gallery ) :)
 
L - He's definitely got sabino, look at the jagged edges to his stockings and the way the edge of the blaze wiggles about. :)

Sabino is very common, but maximum sabinos are rare.

I think that people forget that something has to cause the white makings on the legs and face. Without genes such as sabino, splash white etc... no horse would have any white markings.
 
I had a pink pony <3 In his case he wasnt even chesnut based, he was bay based, but so much sabino and roaning he looked pink. There was 2 tiny tufts of his mane and tail where you could see the black base.

He was entire for a few years when he was younger and unusually for his colour he stamped his stock with variations of the same colour. One of his sons is pretty much white apart from a tiny patch of roaning.

Round here he would be known as a blagdon. I dont think I've ever heard anyone say the word sabino out loud apart from myself :P Hes not from the North East is he?
 
We used to have 2 ares that we called 'The Pink Pair' one was a chestnut-based leopard-spotted Appaloosa and the other was a bay roan, her coat. turned almost silver in Autumn every year.
 
Round here he would be known as a blagdon. I dont think I've ever heard anyone say the word sabino out loud apart from myself :P Hes not from the North East is he?[/QUOTE]

From what we can trace, he was originally bought from holmfirth market as a job lot of babies. He was broken in and then sold to the peeps we got him from. I dont think he's moved out of the northwest.
 
Holmfirth classes as the NE for me, lol. That and York are the 2 big sales round here and Holmfirth was favoured by a particular type of breeder. and my boy was considered well bred in those circles. It certainly wouldnt be unusual for a job lot of babies to head that way, or its possible that my boys colour came from the NW originally, in a job lot of babies heading this way! I'd lay money on him being related to mine in some way or the other, as its unusual for that colour to be passed on so uniformly :) I called my boy "The Pink Pony" as well :D Beautiful horse either way, I miss mine every day!
 
Thanks Frankiecob, he is a truly amazing horse : ) ive never known such a forward going, sharp but with amazing brakes horse before. My dad is incredibly luckily to have him, we have have had so many years of fun. Unfortunately he's now well and truly broken, but he still looks fab in the field and we certainly wouldnt be without him.

Where did you get your boy from? The reason i ask is because we went to Holmofirth market afew years later (must have been about 10/11 years ago) and saw a 2 year old who looked just like ours!!! we was so tempted to buy him, but it was just the wrong time. The horse didnt sell in the ring (didnt meet his reserve) to this day i still wonder what happened to him.

Do you have any pic's of your boy?
 
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