[keepthelegend]

Remark, the only brindle colored thoroughbred racing, is running in the 3rd race at Belmont today.

[Toadie's mom]

Thanks, this answers one of my questions from your posting on the sport horse breeding. So, do you know how he's registered? Colorwise?

[keepthelegend]

Registered as dark bay or brown. I can't remember if the Jockey Club gives brindle as an option...don't remember seeing it when doing foal registrations.

[caffeinated]

if it's the three year old filly, she is registered as a "dark bay or brown"

and a link to a lovely photo from Barbara Livingston

[animaldoc]

Man, I'd hate to draw the Coggin's picture for her!! Looks pretty neat though.....

[jbonifas]

I didn't think they called that brindle, I thought it was birdcatcher or something like that.

[midnightride]

I didn't think they called that brindle, I thought it was birdcatcher or something like that.

Agreed.... not bridle in my book (having a few brindle dogs)

I have a bay with a white tale and white feathering on legs and another bay with white spots... wonder where they are picking up the coloring genetically?

[tradewind]

I believe she is indeed a brindle as far as color goes in horses. It does not express itself as defined as brindle dogs. It is definitely not birdcatcher which are defined spots. The color experts over in Sporthorse Breeding land can provide you with a really cool color link.

[Lady Counselor]

Isn't that similar or the same as lacing? Or is lacing only across the spinal area?

[foundationmare]

Wow, never seen anything like it! It looks like someone has splattered the print!

I've seen plenty of roaning in otherwise solid colored individuals, but her markings are very unusual.

[TKR]

I certainly don't profess to understand the color genetics. But, I do seem to remember that brindle is not bred on -- so how is it produced or reproduced?
Pennyg

[Rudy]

I know some brindle horses are chimeric...wonder how that would work if this horse was proven to be so??

[poltroon]

The mechanism that has been postulated for a genetic brindle is thought to be associated with the sooty gene, which would be two brown shades. I don't know how common sooty is in Thoroughbreds. In this case, with the other color white, and apparently not a graying white, one wonders if it's something working with sabino or perhaps a totally different mechanism where some cells did not properly pigment.

I have seen, and somewhere have pictures of, a brindle TB that is two shades of brown. I cannot recall the horse's name, unfortunately.

Here is a great article about chimeric brindles:
http://instructor.mstc.edu/instructo...inamillion.pdf

[farmgirl88]

Agreed.... not bridle in my book (having a few brindle dogs)

I have a bay with a white tale and white feathering on legs and another bay with white spots... wonder where they are picking up the coloring genetically?

a bay with a white tail, white roaning, and white markings is sometimes considered a silver dapple

I have a section B welsh mare who is labeled a liver chestnut but in all reality she is very much a silver dapple. She is a gorgeous color but she has a dark dorsal stripe, silver/white roaning throughout her coat, a silver tail with the dorsal stripe continuing all the way through it. her mane is almost black with some white in it. she has a big blaze and 4 white socks. Her belly is silver/white dappled and in the summer time her dapples really show.

[caffeinated]

I didn't think they called that brindle, I thought it was birdcatcher or something like that.

Birdcatcher spots are small, round spots, and usually aren't in any kind of "pattern" like on this horse (where the white spots sort of line up in vertical lines).

http://www.theequinest.com/images/bi...er-spots-1.jpg

Also, people have mentioned brindles with two shades of brown, the Barbara Livingston album that I linked to above has one of those in it too:

Slewcy's Gale

[poltroon]

a bay with a white tail, white roaning, and white markings is sometimes considered a silver dapple

I have a section B welsh mare who is labeled a liver chestnut but in all reality she is very much a silver dapple. She is a gorgeous color but she has a dark dorsal stripe, silver/white roaning throughout her coat, a silver tail with the dorsal stripe continuing all the way through it. her mane is almost black with some white in it. she has a big blaze and 4 white socks. Her belly is silver/white dappled and in the summer time her dapples really show.

"Silver Dapple" doesn't involve any white or roan hairs; it's a dilution on black pigment to chocolate on the body and flaxen on the mane and tail.

http://www.ultimatehorsesite.com/colors/silver.html

[Lady Kafca]

http://www.angelfire.com/on3/TrueCol...oughbreds.html

Check out all the colors of these thoroughbreds!!!

[Freebird!]

http://www.angelfire.com/on3/TrueCol...oughbreds.html

Check out all the colors of these thoroughbreds!!!

Wow - now I'm wondering if my little mini isn't a Silver bay. He has flaxen mane and tale, looks chestnut, with darker, legs, and has silver dark gray on the underside of his mane.


Anyway - sorry to hijack the thread....carry on!

[Muleskick]

Registered as dark bay or brown. I can't remember if the Jockey Club gives brindle as an option...don't remember seeing it when doing foal registrations.

Brindle is not a color option in TB's. I would guess she is registered as a dk bay/brown with scattered white hairs.

[aucowwy]

This is not a typical brindle color but I don't think it would classify as a birdcatcher either.