For the colour crowd

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For the ‘white horse’ crowd -

Video replay: Chief White Fox at Mountaineer, July 1, breaking maiden

The 3-year-old son of The White Fox bested the runner-up by 5 ¼ lengths in the one-mile race under jockey Marco Ccamaque. He covered the distance in 1:42.92 over a track rated fast as the favorite.

Chief White Fox is one of only a small handful of Thoroughbreds to be registered as “white” by The Jockey Club.

White is the rarest color in the Thoroughbred registry, a genetic mutation that is dominantly inherited. Diamonds and Lace, Chief White Fox’s dam, is a dark bay or brown Shirttail Flying mare with no white horses in her pedigree. Chief White Fox, her first white foal, is her third winner from as many offspring to race.

However, late sire The White Fox comes from a long line of registered white horses in the Patchen Wilkes Farm breeding program. Seven of the 10 foals by the deceased son of Pioneering are registered as white. Three have raced, with two winners; led by gray or roan gelding Patchen Fox, who has won four of 10 starts for earnings of $54,811.

Chief White Fox is the first white foal by The White Fox to win a race. The colt was born and raised at Brown’s Elmhurst Farm in Lexington, Ky.

“I condition him at Keeneland’s Thoroughbred Training Center on Paris Pike,” Brown said. “There have been a lot of show horse people who want to breed to him. But I’m going to keep racing him – at least for the time being.”

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The Youtube has gone ‘pouf’.

BTW, the OP is not an instigator and has for years provided interesting and knowledgeable posts that I always look forward to for their content.

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Now this is a cool color runner in Europe - Germany, actually - with the name Silvery Moon (2-yr)! You think he’d be a lead pony at Santa Anita at first glance

Video (youtube): June 2013 - Silvery Moon training

Paulick Report July 9, 2013: “Horse of a Different Color Turning Heads in Europe”

The colt, a rare overo Thoroughbred, has made two starts, most recently finishing second by a neck in a maiden race in Germany. Silvery Moon was purchased by his owner, Stall Paint Horse, from the 2012 Arqana Autumn sale in November for €12,000. Stall Paint Horse even had silks made to match those of Silvery Moon’s markings.

Yep - those are some neat silks! Never would get registered in NY or Kentucky but still neat.

I believe there is ‘another’ so-named Silvery Moon (IRE) actively racing but not on the continent rather instead Britain.

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Video (youtube): Silvery Moon making his 2nd start

It’s in German. Looks to have lost by a long neck.

The site with additional updates:
http://www.koeln-galopp.de/de-startseite.html

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hmm, we know a German horse who speaks the language and is pinto and is 1/2 TB. Maybe that pinto racing in Germany needs some DNA testing? He has a pretty big WB looking head there. :lol: We’ll take the good old well bred Kentucky TB bays and chestnuts. But it is interesting to see some coloured horses win sometimes. Everyone gets so excited over greys in racing.

They need to tattoo that boy’s left eye. Too much pink.

A horse farm in Ky now has all those 20 or so white TB broodmares who used to be at a farm in the PNW, so there will be more registered white TBs showing up everywhere. Including one of the Silvers in Johnny Depp’s Long Ranger movie. The article is over on bloodhorse.com.