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Unusual color

Postby accphotography » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:55 am

We discussed this guy once before I know, but I can't find the old thread. Anyway, this is a NEW photo of him and now I find him even MORE interesting!! I didn't really believe it before (IIRC), but there is NO WAY I believe he's chestnut now.

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http://www.equinenow.com/horse-ad-245797
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Postby HeadlessHorseman » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:47 pm

He does have a black muzzle....but his front's are super low...tail is a neato color...SUPER light bay then...

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Postby Jorge » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:03 pm

Makes me remember a thread about whether a subject equine was bay or chestnut along with additional rabicano considerations. Yikes, the photo identifies him as a "gelding_stallion". :shock: :| :shock: :|

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Postby accphotography » Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:52 pm

Yeah I caught that too Jorge and chuckled a bit. the ad says gelding (I think he was gelded int he other thread too).

This horse would be classed as wild bay.
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Postby Linda_d » Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:34 am

accphotography wrote:This horse would be classed as wild bay.


That would be my thought, too. It looks like whatever gene/modifier that's suppressing most of the black on his legs is also lightening the black in his mane and tail.
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Postby accphotography » Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:04 pm

Wild bay tends to that, especially coupled with some leftover baby flaxen and maybe gulastra plume.
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Postby reedhill » Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:05 pm

http://www.equinenow.com/horse-ad-313989

She is probably bleached out, but sure could be mistaken for a buckskin TB I think. What do you think?

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Postby accphotography » Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:51 pm

The one that looks buckskin... ummmm. I would actually be surprised if she WASN'T buckskin. That doesn't look like fading to me. I'd love to have some of her hair!

I love the one with the light tail. I can't figure her out.
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Postby Nerd » Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:43 pm

accphotography wrote:The one that looks buckskin... ummmm. I would actually be surprised if she WASN'T buckskin. That doesn't look like fading to me. I'd love to have some of her hair!

Her pedigree: http://www.pedigreequery.com/turko+bella
Interestingly, her two foals are also for sale: Paytheturk, who seems to be a garden-variety bay; and full sister Zoomzoom Bell, who is dilute-looking like her dam.

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Postby TrueColours » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:59 am

What a shame they never registered the Lily filly, so add on another $2000 to her purchase price ... :(

She looks SO much like the bay Arabians at a place I used to board at. Snow white tails just like this until they hit 2-3 years of age and then over the next year they'd turn black

I bet this is exactly what is going to happen here as well
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Postby accphotography » Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:21 pm

Nerd wrote:
accphotography wrote:The one that looks buckskin... ummmm. I would actually be surprised if she WASN'T buckskin. That doesn't look like fading to me. I'd love to have some of her hair!

Her pedigree: http://www.pedigreequery.com/turko+bella
Interestingly, her two foals are also for sale: Paytheturk, who seems to be a garden-variety bay; and full sister Zoomzoom Bell, who is dilute-looking like her dam.


How very, VERY interesting. The filly definitely does NOT look run of the mill bay. Something is going on here me thinks.
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Postby spacely » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:23 pm

TrueColours wrote:What a shame they never registered the Lily filly, so add on another $2000 to her purchase price ... :(

She looks SO much like the bay Arabians at a place I used to board at. Snow white tails just like this until they hit 2-3 years of age and then over the next year they'd turn black

I bet this is exactly what is going to happen here as well


Not if it's done by the end of this year. It will be $525. Not exactly the $200 if it were done when she was a foal, but not $2000 either. :wink:

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Postby reedhill » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:39 pm

That bay filly has to have a silver dilution gene, to have that tail?
I thought that "bay" that looks to have all the shadowing even dappeling
of a buckskin was worth showing. :)

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Postby Linda_d » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:01 pm

reedhill wrote:That bay filly has to have a silver dilution gene, to have that tail?
I thought that "bay" that looks to have all the shadowing even dappeling
of a buckskin was worth showing. :)


I'll chime in that Turkobelle definitely looks buckskin. I bet she was just registered incorrectly.
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