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A gray horse (or grey horse) has a coat color characterized by progressive depigmentation of the colored hairs of the coat. Most gray horses have black skin and dark eyes; unlike some equine dilution genes and some other genes that lead to depigmentation, gray does not affect skin or eye color. [ 1 ]
Similarly, horses with a bay base coat and the cream gene will be buckskin or perlino. A black base coat with the cream gene becomes the not-always-recognized smoky black or a smoky cream. Cream horses, even those with blue eyes, are not white horses. Dilution coloring is also not related to any of the white spotting patterns.
Steel Grey/Iron Grey: A grey horse with intermingled black and white hairs. This color occurs in a horse born black, or in some cases, dark bay, and slowly lightens as the horse ages. Rose Grey: A grey horse with a reddish or pinkish tinge to its coat. This color occurs in a horse born bay or chestnut and slowly lightens as the horse ages ...
Grey Swallow was a grey horse bred in Ireland by Marguerite Weld, the mother of the trainer Dermot Weld. He is probably the best horse sired by the multiple Group One winner Daylami, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] from whom he inherited his colour.
Horses with a gray gene can be born any color and their hair coat will lighten and change with age. Most wild equids are dun, as were many horses and asses before domestication of the horse . Some were non-dun with primitive markings , and non-dun 1 is one of the oldest coat color mutations, and has been found in remains from 42,700 years ago ...
The 2023 Kentucky Derby featured four gray or roan horses: Tapit Trice, Reincarnate, Hit Show and Rocket Can.. West Saratoga is the only lighter-colored colt for Derby 150 on Saturday at Churchill ...
Foundation stock or foundation bloodstock refers to animals that are the progenitors, or foundation, of a breed or of a given bloodline within such. Many modern breeds can be traced to specific, named foundation animals, but a group of animals may be referred to collectively as foundation bloodstock when one distinct population (including both landrace breeds or a group of animals linked to a ...
Seize the Grey is hopeful to make the Kentucky Derby off a seventh-place finish in the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes on April 6 at Keeneland. He currently ranks 22nd on the Kentucky Derby points ...