accphotography wrote:Airdrie Apache really should have been given the chance to race, at least in Texas. He was one of the best racing bred colored TBs out there. Naevus was one of the best sires Texas ever saw and the dam side didn't look too shabby for local running. I guess this is where the bias against color really comes in because that horse should definitely have been able to run, but they never even gave him a chance, likely due to his color.
To add on to this, Naevus was pretty royally bred and was G1&2 stakes placed. The bias against white goes back to old wives tales...I can't be the only one to have heard the ditty about white feet which ends with four white feet being undesired?! I find money to be a huge factor here. We have marvelous race sires who can throw color, for instance Kittens Joy, but are owners of a modestly raced mare with wild marking willing to pay the full stud fee if they could get their mare accepted into the book?