Unheard sires on Palomino pedigrees

[Jorge]

While browsing the pedigrees of several palomino Thoroughbreds I fully realized that palomino TBs, contrary to the case of "cropout" whites Tbs, tend to carry a good number of practically never unheard sires (some even unraced). This angle is quite interesting because it makes me ask to myself, in the first place, for what specific reason these horses were used as sires.

Under no circumstance am I trying to critizice or imply something is wrong with that. What I am trying to learn is what specific phenotypical traits (if that was the case) made some breeders of the past preserve these rare names into the future. Who knows if these names were gloriously related to dressage barrel, halter, jumpers, rodeo talents or just good looks or forms.

Perhaps its just an unfounded perception, or perhaps we are witnessing the preservation of quite valuable hidden treasures of the past. I think this phenomenom occurrs with more prevalence within the palominos than within other coat colors.

Can our palomino breeders and palomino enthusiasts shed more light on this issue and expose these hidden treasures?

Feel free to pose examples.

Thanks in advance for your participation.

[reedhill]

It would be nice to know for what reason Milkie and Glitter Please were bred. I'd have to think they were kept stallions for the same reason we want them - to pass on the different color. Although the owners back then had to have been much braver to keep them and breed them back in the day. I can't imagine the ridicule they must have gone through. I am very happy that the Milkie line stayed around long enough for this color "lover" to continue trying to spread these dilute colors in as many directions as possible. We can't wait to see if Twentyfour Kt Gold aka Shine, graces his first foals with his color, big gaits, and height!

[summerhorse]

I'd say the same reason as today also. To make pretty showhorses!

[belambi]

What olour where the sire and dam of Milkie?..

[HeadlessHorseman]

http://www.pedigreequery.com/milkie

Looks like he was a FLUKE????

Edit to say...his dam was the dilute gene carrier it looks like...read her description..............COOL...................

HH

[summerhorse]

It usually is the dam as a sire would normally have enough foals that 50% dilutes would get noticed. Not so much with a nobody mare though.

[xfactor fan]

Milkie has a long string of brown mares on his bottom line. The top line has some well known horses. So I'm betting that the cream came up from the bottom.

As for what the palominos were bred for, they were not breeding for color, they were breeding to race.