Pedigree Query

This 2yo filly, Tap for Luck, recently won at Saratoga for Todd Pletcher. She not only sports the bloody shoulder, but she has some additional red splotches on her barrel. She's a lovely daughter of Tapit.

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Wow, gorgeous. Love the bloody shoulder, it is so unusual.

Very neat. And such gorgeous photos!

I bet she'd produce great color later!

Not to sound like a wet blanket, but she is likely a chestnut-going-gray. The markings will probably be gone next year and by the time she is 9 or 10 she will be just another flea bitten gray - a white horse with tiny red specks.

Dapple grays are perhaps the ultimate vanity color horse, since the true dappled phase typically only lasts four to six years.

madelyn wrote:Not to sound like a wet blanket, but she is likely a chestnut-going-gray. The markings will probably be gone next year and by the time she is 9 or 10 she will be just another flea bitten gray - a white horse with tiny red specks.

Dapple grays are perhaps the ultimate vanity color horse, since the true dappled phase typically only lasts four to six years.

I couldn't disagree more. That is a true bloodmark if I've ever seen one.

accphotography wrote:

madelyn wrote:Not to sound like a wet blanket, but she is likely a chestnut-going-gray. The markings will probably be gone next year and by the time she is 9 or 10 she will be just another flea bitten gray - a white horse with tiny red specks.

Dapple grays are perhaps the ultimate vanity color horse, since the true dappled phase typically only lasts four to six years.

I couldn't disagree more. That is a true bloodmark if I've ever seen one.

Ditto ACC

A quick glance! This case is carrying at least 7 doses from Hyperion's dam, Selene. Perhaps there are more inconspicuous doses from her. Always keep in mind that Hyperion is the "one-man-gang" of coat color oddities.

Thanks to Stay Out Front for posting this case.

All the Best,

TAP FOR LUCK (gray filly 2008)

http://www.pedigreequery.com/tap+for+luck

Wow, Tapit again!

madelyn wrote:Not to sound like a wet blanket, but she is likely a chestnut-going-gray. The markings will probably be gone next year and by the time she is 9 or 10 she will be just another flea bitten gray - a white horse with tiny red specks.

Dapple grays are perhaps the ultimate vanity color horse, since the true dappled phase typically only lasts four to six years.

I think I'm with madelyn on this. Tapit's a gray. His daughter is a gray who looks to be graying somewhat unevenly.

The horse has maintained the same chestnut color since they've had her, while her grey coat has lightened considerably. So, for now, I'll go with the blood mark theory.

I just never understand why people can't appreciate things, instead of always feeling the need to say, "You're so wrong! That's nothing."

Linda_d wrote:I think I'm with madelyn on this. Tapit's a gray. His daughter is a gray who looks to be graying somewhat unevenly.

Do you understand the concept of a blood mark? No one is saying the horse is not gray. Blood marks only occur on gray. Gray is not uneven and gray does not leave color... unless there is a blood mark. That mare will keep that mark to the day she dies, just like every other horse with a blood mark. Haven't you seen Charmander or do you think she's just "uneven" too?



That marking is NOT going anywhere.

CHARMANDER:

(Two photos of her are posted under her pedigree)

http://www.pedigreequery.com/charmander

I'm guessing that Expressive Dance was actually a gray that was registered as a chestnut. Gray being dominant one of her parents would have to be gray, and I've seen Dehere, he was bay.

ElPrado wrote:I'm guessing that Expressive Dance was actually a gray that was registered as a chestnut. Gray being dominant one of her parents would have to be gray, and I've seen Dehere, he was bay.

She's registered 'roan', per equineline - which of course, means she was grey. This was before the 'gr/ro' designation.