Another Colt Last Night

[BeckyG]

Congratulations, Jan!!!

He is such a beautiful little fellow!!!

(Has a lot of "presence" about him)

 

[REO]

He's wonderful Jan! Congratulations!!!

 

[sedeh]

Very nice colt!!

Congratulations!!

:yeah

 

[Miniequine]

oh/// very nice! Congrats!!!

~Sandy

 

[mizbeth]

Jan!

Well DOUBLE WOW then! He is GORGEOUS..................

Congrats on that beauty........

B

 

[ThreeCFarm]

He's gorgeous, Jan!! Congratulations!!!

 

[Dona]

Beth, he is a Mime grandson.

The color thing is always interesting. Dam is a true gray, when we showed her as a young mare we always got compliments on the lovely "blue roan". Her dam also is gray (Blue Boy breeding), and bred to a bay, did produce one colt born a bright cherry sorrel who shed out gray. Jan

He's gorgeous!

Unless a bay horse is "homozygous" for black, it will carry one red gene and one black gene.

"Gray" isn't a color...but a "pattern of white hairs". A "true gray" horse is actually born some "color" that has faded.

So, the gray horse could be a black based horse that carries red, or a red horse. But going from what you said about the gray horse being called a "blue roan" when younger...I would say it is a black horse. Regardless....both sire & dam must carry the red gene & pass it to the foal, to result in a red foal.

 

[Tab]

SWEET!