"Coloured" thoroughbreds

[Breeder]

An interesting thread from Thoroughbred Village showing images of very different coloured horse bred in Japan

http://forum.thoroughbredvillage.com.au/novellist-x-yukichan-filly_topic60236.html?SID=2401-44d393zad3cd77e4181f9376273148

[Phar Lap Fan]

More intrigued how Shirayukihime is grey. How is that possible when there are no grey genes in 3 preceding generations? Skewbald colouring of foal is probably due to a mutated gene. Wasn't there a chestnut horse racing in 1990s-2000s, possibly trained at Foxton, that had a large white patch?

[claude55]

My mare is spotted. Never ever seen a spotted thoroughbred anywhere. Has anyone

[Lloyd Vivian]

On 6/11/2017 at 9:12 AM, Phar Lap Fan said:

More intrigued how Shirayukihime is grey. How is that possible when there are no grey genes in 3 preceding generations? Skewbald colouring of foal is probably due to a mutated gene. Wasn't there a chestnut horse racing in 1990s-2000s, possibly trained at Foxton, that had a large white patch?

Also interested in that - I suspect that it is an error in recording correct colours of foals at birth. [ or the unthinkable in our day and age, that perhaps the recorded parentage is not correct; this could all be checked relatively easily and I imagine they have the DNA microchipping system that we have??] Certainly warrants some checking!!

[Tapu]

We have bred two.  My Hallucination, now a super eventer, & Smokem Wilson.  Have multiple lines of The Tetrach.  Wilson is currently spelling