Sounds good to me. But I do know if the boss sent you out to get the
sorrel and you came back with the chestnut it wouldn't matter what your
genetics were, you'd still be a greenhorn. Did I mention that both
sorrels and chestnuts come in five or more different colors? Reminds me
of an old friend I knew who could never tell his pair apart until he
measured them and found the black one to be an inch taller than the
white one.
L.M. Tembreull wrote:
Shade is subjective, breed centric, and regional. One person's sorrel is another's chestnut. The standard nomenclature today is that the two are interchangeable and synonymous. Where I live - no matter the shade if it is a red Quarter Horse it is a sorrel. If it is a red Arabian it is a chestnut. If it is a Belgian it is a blonde sorrel. Phenotype and genotype could be identical on all three but because of the breed they are described differently. And that is why the equine genetics world has gone to the standard nomenclature it has. :o)_________________________________________________________
Lewella
----- Original Message ----- From: Candis Hankins To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:44 PM
Subject: [drivingpairs] Re: sorrel and Chestnut
Genetics are very cool, but cowboys go by what they see and therefore named the colors so you could tell one horse from another. If you had a pair of horses, the chestnut was the one with color that did not fade on the legs. The sorrel was the one with lighter color points. (excluding white markings of course) You know, phenotype and genotype?
L.M. Tembreull wrote:
>Extremely outdated book that predates genetic testing. We now know they are genetically the same no matter what shade they are. Much better reading would be Dr. Sponenberg's Equine Color Genetics or the website EquineColor.com.
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>Lewella
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Candis Hankins > To: driving pairs > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:00 PM
> Subject: [drivingpairs] sorrel and Chestnut
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> I used to drive a pair of horses that were the same shade of red, but > one was a sorrel and one was a chestnut. Read Ben Green's book titled > 'The Color of Horses' and the differences will be obvious. Both come in > several shades, but a sorrel will fade out on the legs and may have a > lighter tail and mane. A chestnut carries the same color down to the > foot (not counting white markings.) Very different!
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