The Jockey Club has incorrectly registered grey Thoroughbreds as roans for a number of years. Their "roan" designation referred to bay or chestnut-based greys, horses that progressively got lighter as they aged (as is the nature of grey).

Jan 12, 2024 · From the common bays and chestnuts to the rarer shades like palomino and roan, thoroughbred horses exhibit a remarkable range of colors. Knowing these colors is crucial, not just for registration purposes but also for appreciating the breed’s heritage and biology.

Roan is a horse coat color pattern characterized by an even mixture of colored and white hairs on the body, while the head and "points"—lower legs, mane, and tail—are mostly solid-colored. Horses with roan coats have white hairs evenly intermingled throughout any other color.

Aug 28, 2020 · Technically Roan DOES exist via the Catch A Bird line. TJC does recognize Roan but for the wrong reason - “roan or gray” is what all the grays get, even before the existend of CAB. TJC is all about the phenotype, and yes, the early-stage grays can look like a Roan. Oxbow is not any testable form of Roan, since neither parent is Roan.

Nov 18, 2024 · Discover the the roan horse: from distinctive shades like Red, Bay, and Grey Roan, to genetics and specialized care tips.

Nov 29, 2022 · The Roan gene is found in a variety of breeds such as Quarter Horse, Paints, Peruvian Paso, Paso Fino, Welsh Pony, Miniature and Belgian, but not in Thoroughbreds or Arabians. Although it has been suggested that Roan is a homozygous lethal, evidence from the Quarter Horse breed indicates otherwise.

The Thoroughbred has a remarkably colorful genetic palette, ranging from ordinary bays to dazzling dominant white pintos. This page will delve into the mechanisms behind the colors as well as dispel some common misunderstandings about Thoroughbred color.

Feb 26, 2024 · Rn is a modifier of other coat genes, so a horse might have a dominant bay gene, modified by the roan gene, resulting in the bay roan. Roan must be present, meaning visible , in the horse for it to be passed on to the next generation.

Thoroughbreds come in a variety of colors, including bay, chestnut, black, gray, roan, palomino, buckskin, dun, perlino, and cremello. Common markings on Thoroughbreds include blazes, stars, stripes, snips, bald faces, socks, stockings, coronets, ermine spots, and white markings.

Until 1992, the roan gene did not exist in the Thoroughbred gene pool (see the Catch A Bird section below for details). Any Thoroughbreds not descended from Catch A Bird that are registered as roan are actually grey and will lighten with age.