The best grey stallion the world has ever known.

Fair Play · Postby **Fair Play** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:17 pm

Okay, I have a warped request made to make my life easier. I tend to have bad filing systems for documents and pictures until they develop by necessity into something sensible. I have 2 gorgeous rex does (bunnies: one black and white, the other chestnut and white), and a white buck. They have produced their first litter so I have decided to give my brain cells a rest naming them and steal the names of racehorses. I think if I give them real names, I not only don't have to think up my own, but I can just look them up if anything happens to my records. Once I pick a name for the buck from an existing stallion, and two names from appropriately colored mares he bred, I should be home free. Any suggestions other than more sleep?

Sysonby · Postby **Sysonby** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:22 pm

Native Dancer

Fair Play · Postby **Fair Play** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:30 pm

Sysonby wrote:Native Dancer

Genius. Thanks.

I might call the chestnut doe Tempted or Prime Time and the black one Likely Prospect or Beaver Street.

nferro9925 · Postby **nferro9925** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:44 pm

An oldie - The Tetrarach

vineyridge · Postby **vineyridge** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:06 am

Really Oldie--Master Robert

All Gray TBs trace back to him. All the other gray lines died out.

zinn21 · Postby **zinn21** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:08 am

That's a tough one. I would say either Native Dancer or Mahmoud.

nferro9925 · Postby **nferro9925** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:06 pm

I thought greys went back to The Tetrarch?

Really - Master Robert? :?:

nferro9925 · Postby **nferro9925** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:07 pm

Never mind - I just looked and The Tetrarach has Master Roberts way back

Jorge · Postby **Jorge** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:23 pm

Perhaps you may want to examine the names mentioned at this thread:

http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/view ... ter+robert

Fair Play · Postby **Fair Play** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:43 am

Thank you all so much. Who knew naming rabbits could be such fun and so educational. Some of the little blighters look like they have some speed too.

It is also interesting for me as my pet (TB) is a grey.

docjocoy · Postby **docjocoy** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:52 am

So what did you name the little guys?

xfactor fan · Postby **xfactor fan** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:03 pm

Allcock, for the Allcock Grey Arabian, most likely the source of the grey gene in the TB population.

Also a pun for a male rabbit.

Lucy · Postby **Lucy** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:52 pm

That's hilarious!

reenci · Postby **reenci** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:22 pm

zinn21 wrote:That's a tough one. I would say either Native Dancer or Mahmoud.

mahmoud ........cant go wrong

vineyridge · Postby **vineyridge** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:06 am

The gray gene didn't necessarily come through Crab.

Bab, the source of the gray in Master Robert had two gray parents. On top, the gray derives from the Cygnet Mare, who got it from Sister Three to Steady, who got it from Miss Belvoir. Miss Belvoir had two gray parents, neither one of whom trace to Alcock's Arabian. One parent goes to the Brownlow Turk, who was gray; the other goes back to the Old Morocco Mare, who was by the gray Fairfax's Morocco Barb.

So the current living gray gene has three possible sources.