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Alcock's Arabian (foaled about 1700, died about 1733), also known as Pelham Grey Arabian and less certainly as Bloody Buttocks and Ancaster Turk, among other names, is the ancestor of all grey-coloured Thoroughbred horses, [1] as well as grey sport and riding horses descended from Thoroughbred lines.
The Arabian or Arab horse ... One of George Washington's primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War was a gray half-Arabian horse named Blueskin, ...
All of these breeds have common ancestry in the Arabian horse. In particular, all gray Thoroughbreds descend from a horse named Alcock's Arabian, a gray born in 1700. [3] The gray coat color makes up about 3% of Thoroughbreds. [4] Gray also affects spotting patterns of pintos and leopard complex horses such as Appaloosas. Its effects wash out ...
Blueskin was a gray horse ridden by George Washington. He was one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War . The horse was a half-Arabian , sired by the stallion "Ranger", also known as "Lindsay's Arabian ", said to have been obtained from the Sultan of Morocco .
Horse breeds that are generally solid-colored and do not allow most pinto coloring in their breed registries, but who may have representatives with sabino-style patterns (such as the Arabian, Thoroughbred, and Clydesdale) have at times classified sabino horses as roan or even gray.
The horse and groom are the subject of a similar painting by Agasse, The Wellesley Arabian, held by a Groom in a Landscape, painted the same year. [28] The painting Portrait of the Grey Wellesley Arabian with his Owner and Groom in a stable was copied by Charles Turner in a fine engraving published in London by Newman on 19 August 1810.
The Darley Arabian (c. 1700 –1730) was one of three dominant foundation sires of modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock. The other two founders were the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk. This bay Arabian horse was bought in Aleppo, Syria, by Thomas Darley in 1704 and shipped to Aldby Park in England, as a present for his brother. [1]
The Godolphin Arabian (c. 1724 –1753), also known as the Godolphin Barb, was an Arabian horse who was one of three stallions that founded the modern Thoroughbred (the others were the Darley Arabian and the Byerley Turk). He was named after his best-known owner, Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin.