What color is this filly?
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What color is this filly?
She's listed as a bay...but to me she looks like a smutty buckskin. Am I wrong? She's a Gold Case filly.
Last edited by Camish on Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:56 am, edited 1 time in total.
She looks like a sooty buckskin to me, here's another example.
http://www.equinecolor.com/modifiers.html#sooty
http://www.equinecolor.com/modifiers.html#sooty
Last edited by Nessa on Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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madelyn wrote:She would be registered by the Jockey Club as a bay regardless.....
I understand that, but was just wondering if I was correct in thinking she was a buckskin.
Last edited by Camish on Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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I'd say it's unlikely that this filly is dilute.
She doesn't have any of the known bloodlines for dilute and the most likely candidate for finding another dilute line in TBs would be in an obscure line of homozygous bays (any dilute chestnut would be an obvious palomino and would likely get some notice, but buckskins are a bit more subtle)
In this case:
- the sire's a known chestnut so could NOT have passed a dilute gene.
- the dam is a bay, but the dam's dam is a chestnut and the dam's sire had a fair # of offspring, many of whom were chestnut. Doesn't make it impossible for him to have had a dilute gene, but it seems highly unlikely.
The only way to rule it out absolutely would be a DNA test, but it wouldn't seem worth the effort. It's probably just pretty dapples on a light-ish bay.
She doesn't have any of the known bloodlines for dilute and the most likely candidate for finding another dilute line in TBs would be in an obscure line of homozygous bays (any dilute chestnut would be an obvious palomino and would likely get some notice, but buckskins are a bit more subtle)
In this case:
- the sire's a known chestnut so could NOT have passed a dilute gene.
- the dam is a bay, but the dam's dam is a chestnut and the dam's sire had a fair # of offspring, many of whom were chestnut. Doesn't make it impossible for him to have had a dilute gene, but it seems highly unlikely.
The only way to rule it out absolutely would be a DNA test, but it wouldn't seem worth the effort. It's probably just pretty dapples on a light-ish bay.
I wonder if timing plays a role here. She appears to be showing the effects of sun exposure as well. My dark brown mare looked dark purple when I bought her after being kept out of the sun for sale prep as a yearling, and later looked either blotchy brown in the summer like your filly or dark brown/black in the winter.
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