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Friday Inspirations 6
One of the questions that came up in response to the posts on late greying was whether this could explain reports of early greying. More...
Apr 26, 2024


An unusual Clydesdale
A friend recently shared a picture of this Clydesdale mare, Olde Tyme I. M. Nina ("Nina"). Her trainer, Jen Hemphill of Rolling Thunder...
Mar 11, 2024


Bragada, the other sabino
Using bragada for this type of patterning also highlights the fact that while sabinos (of all kinds) have a range of white expression, the width of that range can vary dramatically.Â
Jan 15, 2020


How sabino became so complicated
Sabino1 is different from some of the patterns in the W series in name only... Visually, many of these patterns are indistinguishable from one another.
Jan 6, 2020


Terminology - it's all "white-spotting"
This is not a more specific term than sabino, but rather a generic term for the absence of pigment cells. In genetics, mice are used as a...
Dec 28, 2019


Terminology - Dominant White
Rumors of the demise of this term are misleading. It's still widely used in the research community. The hunter mare pictured above...
Dec 28, 2019


Terminology - the generic sabino
The convention the author of this blog follows is to use "sabino" (lowercase with no number) as the generic term for those patterns...
Dec 27, 2019


An overview of the sabino patterns
This post gives an overview of this complex group of patterns and gives a brief explanation of how they have been named. Perhaps no other...
Dec 25, 2019


Research into blue eyes and KIT mutations
Recent studies in other species show a connection between KIT and blue eyes A tobiano pony with partially blue and partially gold eyes...
Aug 22, 2014
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