Anybody looking for a white TB colt yearling? This one is being offered at the Fasig Tipton yearling auction today. This colt doesn’t have a lot of “racing” pedigree behind him so I doubt he will sell for much money in the grand scheme of TBs being sold for racing. IMO he’ll probably sell for more than he is worth on paper because of his color. Very rare that JC allows a TB to be registered as white.
Someone needs to turn him into a sporthorse. His Storm Cat and Marquetry should make him at least decent. He doesn’t need to be put into race training, to do poorly, and they turn around for re-training.
If anyone remembers, I kicked around the idea of trying to breed my stakes-producing, belly-spotted, now retired chestnut TB broodmare for a splash of color.
Get Stormy was always at the top of my list for her. Several folks told me he wasn’t passing on any of his bling. Then I saw a picture of this guy over the weekend. So much for not passing on his color! :lol:
(I do realize the white came from the bottom of the yearling’s pedigree, just saying…)
It’s a moot point, since pain in the arse didn’t get catch with 3 different stallions. I doubt she would have caught with him either.
Like most TB race breeders I could care less about color for the most part. But there are 2 colors I definitely don’t want to see come out of a mare, white and palomino. One would be hard pressed to name 1 of either that turned out to be a decent, not even a good race horse.
Patchen Wilkes Farm basically a private breeder that has a long and storied past in Lexington and bred the mare Patchen Beauty who has had a number of white foals. They bred and raced the dam’s sire The White Fox who won 1 race and banked $8,000+. The breeder had deep pockets and was not a “commercial” breeder per-say.
I know the buyer, very well respected. I would bet dollars to donuts considering the paper and the purchase price this guy may never see the race track. She might have bought the horse for someone who breeds for color. Or just for her own “account” to have some fun with.
Nice little article about the now deceased The White Fox;
Yukichan is a stakes-winning white mare out of the novel White mutation mare Shirayukihime who is by Sunday Silence, and by a French Deputy son Kurofune who wasn’t too shabby.
It’s different when the white is a result of a novel mutation (happens more often than you’d think), and when it’s used as an excuse to breed for color.
None of the white TBs seem to be very fast. Are the ones kept for color breeding producing sport horses of quality? I see high prices but no performance records on any.
