Ended Official BYC 2024 Summer Fair—Equine Show

[Ponypoor]

Entry 3

Penny, POA mare and her new born colt Cotton, his first time standing

This was loooong ago when I was a much younger person. Penny lived to be 30 yrs old.

 

[Ponypoor]

Entry 4

Malaka with me up, she had only been ridden a month here, we placed in our 2 dressage tests a 3rd and 4th out of a class of 10 horses - she was such an amazing horse.

I am wanting to say 2004 in this photo.

 

[kikiruru]

y’all horses

 

[Kiki]

Entry 1

Malaka, grey Arabian filly, 2 yrs old here in this photo.

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She was the most lovely quiet horse to ride. Her sister is bonkers though!

Serous question here.
Why do you call this a grey horse when it looks brown?

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Try bluing next time - it works amazing. But don’t leave it in too long or you will end up with a purple pony yup been there oooops!

I did lol, used 2 regular ones and 1 bluing.

Lol I definitely have left it in too long before

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Entry 1

Malaka, grey Arabian filly, 2 yrs old here in this photo.

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She was the most lovely quiet horse to ride. Her sister is bonkers though!

Entry 2

Truly, Arabian mare, she would be 20 in this photo- she had been tearing around like a 2 yr old - she Malaka’s half sister.
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Entry 3

Penny, POA mare and her new born colt Cotton, his first time standing
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This was loooong ago when I was a much younger person. Penny lived to be 30 yrs old.

Entry 4

Malaka with me up, she had only been ridden a month here, we placed in our 2 dressage tests a 3rd and 4th out of a class of 10 horses - she was such an amazing horse.

I am wanting to say 2004 in this photo.
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Lovely entries! You’ve owned some gorgeous horses.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Serous question here.
Why do you call this a grey horse when it looks brown?

Good question.
Grey horses are not born grey. They are born what their base color would be. Bay, black, red, palomino, ect. They are also born hyperpigmented. This means if they are black based, they are born jet black instead of the mousy grey color that a true black is. Most, not all I think though have another tell tale sign, they are born with grey goggles around their eyes. By their first foal shed you will start seeing the lighter grey hairs show up in their coat. Grey is a fascinating gene in truth. Some horses grey extremely fast, by 2 or 3 they are a light grey and white before 10. Some grey slow and stay darker and dappled into their teens. Eventually though they will all end up that iconic flea bitten grey almost white horse if they live long enough.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Good question.
Grey horses are not born grey. They are born what their base color would be. Bay, black, red, palomino, ect. They are also born hyperpigmented. This means if they are black based, they are born jet black instead of the mousy grey color that a true black is. Most, not all I think though have another tell tale sign, they are born with grey goggles around their eyes. By their first foal shed you will start seeing the lighter grey hairs show up in their coat. Grey is a fascinating gene in truth. Some horses grey extremely fast, by 2 or 3 they are a light grey and white before 10. Some grey slow and stay darker and dappled into their teens. Eventually though they will all end up that iconic flea bitten grey almost white horse if they live long enough.

It's always been so fascinating to me, mine was apparently black when she was born, pretty much white by the time I got her at 15 besides a few flea bitten spots. Her baby was born bay

 

[azurbanclucker]

Not an entry:

Dozer, with some nerd on his back.

 

[Ponypoor]

Serous question here.
Why do you call this a grey horse when it looks brown?

Grey horses are born a base colour: chestnut, bay, black, palomino, etc.

The grey gene turns the horse white over the years. Each spring when they shed their winter hair coat the get more white. And it starts at the head around the eyes, and moves down the body.

Malaka was born a Liver Chestnut and went a lovely dark grey. I don’t have her anymore but she is white now.

Malaka as a foal with her mum Dinarah (2002)

Truly her half sister was born a bright chestnut and went grey really fast, by the time she was 7 she was pretty well white.