Your Independent Mary Kay Beauty Consultant Glenndale Grace Farm, Ft Gibson, Oklahoma U.S.A. "Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!" - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Granted, Bid only won the Derby and Preakness...
--- On Wed, 12/31/08, kathy swigart <katswig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: kathy swigart <katswig@xxxxxxx> Subject: [RC] Greys and skin cancer To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 10:20 PM
According to the book _Equine Genetics and Selection Criteria_ in the TB
registry (where they keep pretty good track), grey horses live, on average, two
years less than non-greys. Probably because of the skin cancer thing, but not
necessarily. Personally, I consider "grey" to be a genetic defect,
right up there with a lot of the others that I select away from. And the nice
thing about grey is that, being a dominant trait, it is really easy to select
away from. Don't breed a grey horse, you won't get a grey horse.
Greys also, incidentally, have a much lower percentage of winners from foals
and winners from starters.
Winning TB race horses are disproportionately chestnuts (e.g. 6 of the 11
Triple Crown winners were chestnuts, while only about 25% of all TBs are).
None of them has been a grey. The number of triple crown winners is so small
that the fact that there are not any greys in the bunch may not be statistically
significant; however, they are under represented in the list of leading sires as
well, which is a much bigger list.
kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)
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