What is this Breed?

[mcnaughty]

Just been speaking to a local guy who says he has a blue colt - he called it a durberry or a burberry... never heard of it before.

Would assume from this guy's background that it could be a horse from the gypsy world and would assume when he called it blue that it is a blue roan.

Any ideas? Got me stumped...

 

[EAST KENT]

Blagdon I expect,a "traveller" term for a blue roan and white .

 

[Enfys]

Just been speaking to a local guy who says he has a blue colt - he called it a durberry or a burberry...

Sorry, just have this mental image of a burberry plaid pony in my head now.

As East Kent says, it could be a blagdon, not necessarily a travellers term though, many Clydes and Clyde crosses are blagdons - roans with high whites and belly splashes. Sabino in other words.

Taken from: http://www.seaspiritoftheforest.co.uk/equine/HorseColoursAndMarkings.html#blagdon

Blagdon: Any 'base colour' or roan based on any base colour, with multiple spots and splashes of white, and / or roan, and / or base colour (red on the 'red Blagdons' and black on the 'blue Blagdons'.) The white is often quite extensive around the belly and upper legs, and almost always accompanied by white on the face, often including the chin. One or both eyes may well be blue. Odd white spots may appear within 'whole colour' on the knees. The most spectacularly marked of the Blagdons are probably due to a combination of a number of different 'white marking' genetic codes, and possibly, in some cases, the inclusion of the (appaloosa) leopard complex gene. The Blagdons, as the Blagdon greys, show typical Sabino gene (a local pattern genetic code) patterns. To see the typical Sabino pattern unmodified by other patterns, look at a Clydesdale horse.

 

[tuppence's fortune]

blagdon ...

all these are blagdon (can be red blagdon, blue, black ext) mainly blue or red though, cob types

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