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Dreaming Of Sanolena

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Dreaming Of Sanolena 2012 gray filly by Sanolena Pep out of CR Smart N Gray (daughter of Smart N Slick) NCHA Futurity Prospect.
 

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Grey dam doesn't guarantee a grey foal. Grey is dominant, but mare may be heterozygous for grey and have passed on a "normal" colour gene.
Im still not sure that filly is grey, looks like a shade of brown
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The greying process can take awhile. My coming 2 year old is just now really starting to get a substantial amount of grey under his winter woolies, if you saw him from a distance he looks bay. Same with my weanling filly. I know they are both grey, dam is homozygous.
 
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Looks like two different horses to me......just saying....just on closer examination.....too bad the photos don't show em standing facing the same direction.....:?
 
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Looks the same now! Thanks! Correct me if I'm wrong!!!
 
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I still don't believe it's the same horse.
The photos of the BAY foal were taken in december 2012 and the photos of the GREYING-out chestnut were taken in august 2012. Why would a foal who is clearly greying out in August become a bay in December?
Also, and I may be entirely wrong here (I realise foals often go through a fugly stage) - so I apologise in advance if so, but the bay foal looks to be not nearly the quality of the greying one.
Wonder if photos somehow got muddled - what with so many foals being born....
 
#21 ·
Don't let the lack of grey in the older photo fool you here Merlot. It is fairly common for grey horses to get darker before they start getting lighter again :)
 
#15 ·
Looks like she's in Texas. The foal would be shedding out its foal coat around August(hence the second picture) and have a winter coat in December(hence the first picture.) The horse is GROWING. It's gonna go through some ugly phases. Its coat is going to change colors. Heck, Henny went from a buttermilk bucksin to a dark brownskin when his winter coat came in. I'm pretty sure I still have the same pony, unless one of my friends came and stole him during the night :wink:
 
#16 ·
The foal in the first pic is a chestnut, just one with darker leg shading.
Foal would need to have black mane and tail to be bay :)

Given that this coat seems to be before the first foal shed and it is adult in colour, it's definitely greying, that is a common sign of a foal greying.
 
#20 ·
I to see a graying foal. Look at the face. Also I agree same foal. One sheading out their babby fuzzies and the other with winter woollies on. Horses really change collors in the winter time.

I have a bay mare who in the winter almost looks black.
 
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