OBS yearling colt - Wish there were more fillies like him!

reedhill · Postby **reedhill** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:16 am

http://obssales.com/augpreview/2009/photo.php?hip=4

Nice, Nice color! Someone will be lucky! :wink:

reedhill · Postby **reedhill** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:29 am

http://obssales.com/augpreview/2009/photo.php?hip=110

The sire Rockport Harbor, handsome and thick as he is, looks like a sire to watch for creating excessive white, beautiful guy!

http://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/ ... ort-harbor

HeadlessHorseman · Postby **HeadlessHorseman** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:18 pm

FOR THE LOVE OF POPSICLE STICKS....THAT IS ONE GORGEOUS COLORED HORSE!!!...

Maybe he can go to the Philippines for a "sex change" I hear they are the best place to go.. :wink:

HH

Bondama · Postby **Bondama** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:02 pm

Rockport Harbor looks like a grey.......let's hope those handsome, flashy colts don't grey out!!

reedhill · Postby **reedhill** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:10 pm

I kind of doubt it, they show no signs of it in the photos, and thier dams were solid with solid parents.

ak1 · Postby **ak1** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:34 pm

The colt pictured looks like he is going to stay bay.

Rockport Harbor's dam passed along her white face so it does not surprise me that he is passing it along to his foals.

summerhorse · Postby **summerhorse** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:54 pm

Here's a pretty grey but I'd KILL for that bay!
http://obssales.com/augpreview/2009/photo.php?hip=23

summerhorse · Postby **summerhorse** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:08 pm

OOOOOOOO, this one looks like a real black!

http://obssales.com/augpreview/2009/photo.php?hip=182

Cute roaned sock

HeadlessHorseman · Postby **HeadlessHorseman** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:19 pm

I was HOPING that black one was a girl...THEN I SAW "it"..

on that Grey one...what a waste of CHROME!!! but a lovely horse...

HH

summerhorse · Postby **summerhorse** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:06 pm

HeadlessHorseman wrote:I was HOPING that black one was a girl...THEN I SAW "it"..

on that Grey one...what a waste of CHROME!!! but a lovely horse...

HH

LOL I know I know, on both counts!!!

helen in FL · Postby **helen in FL** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:04 pm

Crystal and I already went through the books last month and picked out our favorites. I'll probably make it down to see them in person. See which ones can sneak on the trailer. Hip #4 will contribute A LOT as a sire, he's one I'll watch for the future.

Jorge · Postby **Jorge** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:39 am

summerhorse wrote:OOOOOOOO, this one looks like a real black!

http://obssales.com/augpreview/2009/photo.php?hip=182

Cute roaned sock

Why this equine was not registered as "black"?

Skipitgirl · Postby **Skipitgirl** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:29 pm

Sold for $25,000.

accphotography · Postby **accphotography** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:59 pm

Jorge: Because big/most racehorse breeders simply don't register black. It is too much of a fight to get The Jockey Club to accept black. That old saying of "if it has just one single brown hair, it's not a true black" still holds with TJC and many breeders. Even if a breeder DID believe one of their foals was black, it's highly unlikely they'd bother to register it that way. Slap a "dark bay or brown" on the papers and be done with it (is how they think).

However, I will give them this, as a foal it can be very difficult to tell a black from a brown so they may have not even known by the time they sent in the paperwork that the foal would shed out this black.

ACC

Langfuhr · Postby **Langfuhr** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:42 pm

helen in FL wrote:Crystal and I already went through the books last month and picked out our favorites. I'll probably make it down to see them in person. See which ones can sneak on the trailer. Hip #4 will contribute A LOT as a sire, he's one I'll watch for the future.

as a sire of what? Color?