I follow the Equine Color Genetics group on Facebook (which... I hate FB so very, very much, so consider the word 'follow' to be a generous description). Some days, it's great, and you can see some really cool colors and discussions.
Other days... well, I've said to my BOs before that it's a good thing I only check FB every few days. I have a high level of sarcasm in my bones and a short fuse for repeated questions with blindingly obvious answers.
Anyway!
One of the discussions I saw recently was about the sabino-1 and splash-2/splash-3 lines in stock horses.
I had mentioned in the classic paint post that SB2 seemed to come from a single Quarter Horse mare, and was related to the Gunner line of Paints. If what they were saying in the FB group was correct, that mare is Katie Gun, the dam of the stallion Colonels Smokingun (otherwise known as Gunner).
SW3 looks like it's coming from a Paint stallion named TD Kid.
Sabino-1 in stock horses seems to come from Real Luck and Gold Mount in Quarter Horses, and Nylon/Jetalito/Scenic Jetalito in Paint horses (again, per FB discussion). Although I have... questions... after looking at Scenic Jetalito's pedigree - the way it was phrased in the FB group was as though Nylon were an ancestor of Jetalito, which does not seem to be the case. Instead, Jetalito is Scenic Jetalito's sire, and Nylon is in Scenic's damsire lines. Real Luck was a 1970s stallion (born 1968), and Gold Mount would have been 1940s (born 1940).
It's not really ground-breaking information or anything, but it's fun to have names that you can look up to see what a pattern or color looks like. :)
i know like.... zip zero about color genetics, except that it's a surprisingly interesting field! there's an author on the subject (who actually got into genetics from a background in art and painting, go figure - she wanted to better understand the patterns she sought to replicate) who was blogging for a long time at "equine tapestry" but she's been quiet for a while now. it's still an awesome blog to go back and read tho if you're interested in the field
ReplyDeleteYup, I've read her blog. I have one of her books, too - I keep meaning to get the other, just haven't gotten around to it.
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