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I  love  grays.  Half  of the horses  we  had starts on this year  (3 
0f  6)  where grays and all  gaited mfts or twhs. Grays  come
in all sizes and breeds obviously.    Here is a pair with the jr we 
sponsor post ride;
http://www.shawneesunrisefarm.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=105

Do your gray arabians have a propensity for slow growing skin cancer?  
It is an issue in our world.
Keith
http://shawneesunrisefarm.net/


Richard ALLEN wrote:
> Over here in France we bought a 'gris truite' - spotted like a trout - 
> and were told the old saying was 'if you find one, buy him. If he's 
> not for sale, steal him'.
>
> Might not the predominance of grey arabs in endurance be a 
> self-fulfilling statistical cluster blip thing (technical term)?  The 
> more greys there are in the sport the more likely the successful 
> horses are to be grey. So more people compete on greys. etc.
> Richard
>
>
>
> On 29 Dec 2008, at 17:19, Kristi Schaaf wrote:
>
> Angie wrote:
> The swiftest of horses is the chestnut;
> The most enduring the bay;
> The most spirited the black;
> The most blessed is he that has a white forehead.
> ______________________________
>
> What I find so interesting is that while it seems the majority of 
> modern endurance riders ride grey (ie white) Arabs, they don't hardly 
> get a mention in the old sayings, or if they do it's a negative one. 
> And it hurt my heavily roaned (flea-bitten) grey Arab's feelings to 
> hear that he's deemed a "sea of blood". : - P
>
> Kristi
>
>
>
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