Sports & recreation

a spotted,patchy or palomino thoroughbred racehorse?

Sports & recreation

Posted by: simla

10th Sep 2012 04:09pm

have you ever seen a spotted thoroughbred or a palomino? the thing is, they have always been around, but were never recognized as purebred as they are so rare. there is a bit on the net about spotted thorouhghbreds in argentina where they've been raced, some now in queensland. they appear to go back to a couple of well known sires of yester-year who had a spots[ Bend-or, and Birdcatcher] both profific producers of good racehorses. My old pet thoroughbred Simla also had a white spot where the saddle goes, it was asumed to be a saddle pressure made mark, but now i think otherwise. looking far back into his pedigree, i see that the arabian foundation stallions that were imported, from the photos iv'e seen had that white spot or patch. the palominos are most likely a throw back to an imported sire way back at the beginning, called Darcys Yellow Turk imported [GB]1665. my research has shown that many of todays thoroughbreds have a number of crosses to Yellow Turk,so the recessive gene,carried all this time,by both parents is finally coming out. now with dna testing,there's no room for doubt.


Comments 3

wendel
  • 3rd Jul 2013 11:56am

Must admit would love to see an Appy or Pally racing the usual suspects, that is bays, blacks, greys and chestnuts. I guess it's just in the breeding.

Captured
  • 22nd Oct 2012 05:18pm

That's really interesting. I have never read about that. I know greys are few and far between and when they race i usually have a soft spot for them over chestnuts, bays and black/browns.
Wouldn't it be lovely to see palominos or appys, etc racing.

simla
  • 29th Oct 2012 12:28am
That's really interesting. I have never read about that. I know greys are few and far between and when they race i usually have a soft spot for them over chestnuts, bays and...

Hi Captured, yes it would be great to see, If I was 20 years younger and had thousands of dollars to invest in importing, breeding and racing them, I would!

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