Great spots for Jorge

xfactor fan · Postby **xfactor fan** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:08 pm

http://www.foaltrack.com/FoalDetail.aspx?FoalId=2836

Take a look at this guy covered with Tetrarch spotting.

He doesn't look like he's turning gray, but the spots are great.

Pan Zareta · Postby **Pan Zareta** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:03 pm

Aren't the Chubari spots unique to grays?

accphotography · Postby **accphotography** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:25 pm

Yes they are. The colt is definitely gray (even without the Tetrarchs). He is in an early stage that some people might not recognize, but IMPO he's pretty obviously gray.

xfactor fan · Postby **xfactor fan** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:09 am

Other than the white/gray spots on his body he doesn't have any of the other things I look for in a gray.

His body color is pretty light--I'm not seeing the hyper pigmentation typical of early grays, and there doesn't seem to be any white on his face, no goggles.

On the other hand his dam is gray. I wonder if this is a unique variant of the gray gene?

What does everyone else thing? Gray or not?

accphotography · Postby **accphotography** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:12 am

Goggles rarely last beyond the first shed, if they make it that long. Hyper pigmentation is rarely noticeable at this age due to the fact that the horse is generally expected to have it's adult color by now.

He has ALOT of gray hairs on his head and even more scattered through the rest of his body, enough to make him look diluted.

RiddleMeThis · Postby **RiddleMeThis** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:10 am

He looks like a normal bay who is 100% going gray to me.

That body color, with the TON of roaning, and the tetrarch spots absolutely SCREAM going gray.

Pan Zareta · Postby **Pan Zareta** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:18 am

xfactor fan wrote:On the other hand his dam is gray. I wonder if this is a unique variant of the gray gene?

Or variable expression of the gene. We've had several (QH) grays. All tail to a gray gt-grdtr of The Tetrarch that my father-in-law bred & owned. Just in that small and closely related group there's been considerable difference in the graying-out process. (None had any other source of gray.) Several were completely grayed out by four. Our 29yo wasn't fully grayed out until she was >10 (see photo below, taken when she was 11) and she's one of only two that have displayed Chubari spots during the process.

LB · Postby LB » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:37 am

RiddleMeThis wrote:He looks like a normal bay who is 100% going gray to me.

same here

HeadlessHorseman · Postby **HeadlessHorseman** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:46 pm

He looks like he has COOTIES!!

I wonder if that color scared anyone...

He's COOL looking though.....

HH

Jorge · Postby **Jorge** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:01 pm

Dear Xfactor fan,

Back again!
Thank you very much for this reference in particular.
Looks like a modern photo of The Tetrarch.
Great!

http://www.foaltrack.com/FoalDetail.aspx?FoalId=2836

All the Best,