For Jorge: Russe Blanc

erins isle · Postby **erins isle** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:20 am

http://www.racingpost.com/news/bloodsto ... 08671/top/

This is a story I would like you to read.

angrovestud · Postby **angrovestud** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:18 am

Took me a while but have some photos for you enjoy they are not brill

xfactor fan · Postby **xfactor fan** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:53 am

Sure looks like another case of Dominant White.

Jorge · Postby **Jorge** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 11:25 pm

Erins Isle,

Thank you so much for the great watch on
RUSSE BLANC
http://www.pedigreequery.com/russe+blanc
Glad to know that Mont Blanc's white lineage is still alive in France.
Will search more on him and write an additional comment soon.
Thanks again. Thanks also to Angrovestud.
Regards,

Jorge · Postby **Jorge** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:59 am

According to every official record, RUSSE BLANC (whose French name translates "WHITE RUSSIAN") is a "white" gelding, foaled in France, on May 1, 2007. He won his first start!

(p.s. Came across this reference:
http://www.irishracing.com/cards/v5card ... 151555.htm )

Jorge · Postby **Jorge** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:34 am

RUSSE BLANC's dam, Fleur de Mad (1990) is a very good example of a (wrongly so called) "roan" or "gray" Thoroughbred coming from a pair of non-gray parents. In theory a gray ("G" gene) equine cannot come from a cross without a gray parent but since this "stained white" looks like a "gray" equine anyone not knowing how the "gray" gene behaves may think this is a "gray". Wrong, this is a "stained white".

summerhorse · Postby **summerhorse** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:38 pm

The dam is a good color producer. We talked about this guy when he was just a baby!! How time flies. Glad he's a winner.

Beluga · Postby **Beluga** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:09 am

I had some emails with the breeder of the horse when he was a few months old, he sent me pictures, I posted some with his authorization on the TBC forum under the username of “francegalop”, and two of them have been used on the pedigree query website to illustrate his page and the page of his dam Fleur de Mad. A friend of mine was at Deauville the day Russe Blanc was sold and she proposed me to buy him but that was not the time for me, so he went to GB.

Some time later the breeder of Russe Blanc let me know of the birth of his little brother. This one was named Far Far Away and is currently in training in France.

I was lucky to see him race last september and in his barn a day I visited a horse I "co-bred". There is a picture of Far Far Away on the bottom of this page of my website : http://zoom.hippique.free.fr/reportages2010/index.html (please do not use this photo without asking me)

Mischi · Postby **Mischi** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:42 am

I saw one of Far Far Away's races last year (on TV), because he raced with one of our horses! Unfortunately, both were unplaced... But Far Far Away was definitely an eyecatcher