Pretty much what it says - I got into a conversation with a long-time horse person from the southern PA/MD area who said she remembered a palomino stallion from Maryland who won a lot of races. I asked whether it was a QH & she said no - a TB - named Maryland Moon. So I looked up the name on both pedigreequery & equineline & found just one horse by that name:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/maryland+moon
Naturally, he is a chestnut. Then again, per his papers, so is Canadian Kid.
Has anyone else heard of a MD-bred palomino TB racing who raced in the 90s? I'm not seeing names in his pedigree that would show palomino (I'm wondering whether he might have been chestnut with white in his mane/tail or something.)
Anyone ever hear of a 1989 palomino TB named Maryland Moon?
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That was what I thought, except the woman was so sure of both the name & the fact of the horse's color, I needed to ask.
Perhaps the question should have been whether anyone knows of a palomino TB who raced n the MidAtlantic in the 80s or 90s at all - that's what really intrigued me the most, since so few of them get to the track at all (and back then, they didn't seem to start most of them under saddle, much less risk racing them).
Perhaps the question should have been whether anyone knows of a palomino TB who raced n the MidAtlantic in the 80s or 90s at all - that's what really intrigued me the most, since so few of them get to the track at all (and back then, they didn't seem to start most of them under saddle, much less risk racing them).
Very interesting but there is a little "detail". He was a talented runner. In other words too exposed as not to be remembered by many people, which seems not to be the case. Also, his pedigree is not that atypical ---too run-of-the-mill.
I sincerely hope I am wrong but perhaps he was a normal "hair-styling" chestnut.
I sincerely hope I am wrong but perhaps he was a normal "hair-styling" chestnut.
KBEquine wrote:
Perhaps the question should have been whether anyone knows of a palomino TB who raced n the MidAtlantic in the 80s or 90s at all - that's what really intrigued me the most.
The lady who swore she'd seen the horse might have gotten the name wrong. She has been around TBs, etc., in that area a lot longer than I have, so I didn't want to tell her I thought she was wrong -- I was hoping she'd found something that you all knew about, but that I didn't.
Apparently not . . . unless there was one with a different name. (But my best guess is that Jorge or others here would have found it long ago, if it existed!)