Hi Jorge, thats a good question. I do, however, believe there are more pure black TB's over there then there are here. They have the stallions and most of our mares over there to make a pure black. Sunday Silence came from Halo, who was pure black, and I've noticed in my browsing that somewhere in a pure black TB's pedigree is Halo/Hail to Reason. Of course there are always exceptions, depending on who they are bred to. My mare has alot of Hail to Reason in both upper and lower and she is a blood bay. When I bred her to Devil His Due, a pure black stallion, I got a match of my mare, a blood bay. They are doing more genetic testing for color now more than ever, IMHO. It's confusing too, with all the capital letters and lower case letters.
In the case of the filly by War Emblem, again, IMHO, she is a black filly. You have to look at the nose and the groin area and sometimes under the tail area.
Everyone is saying Zenyatta's little half sister, Eblouisante (sp?) is a pure black, but she's NOT! She is a dark mink brown like Bernardini, but there is Kris S. in there and he was or looked black so she is very dark at her young age. Many of the photos show her looking black but I think its just the camera, there is a great photo of her on her facebook page for the cover photo and it clearly shows she is a dark beautiful mink brown.
I saw a grey horse the other day online that was so dappled he almost looked like an appaloosa and I forgot who he was because I was going to send the photo to you. I believe he's running now, I'd bet you already are aware of him! LOL Thanks Jorge
