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Horse colours: from bay to cremello; from greying out to the rare true white – and whether your dun is actually a buckskin. ... Roan: white hairs mixed with any base coat colour.

The 2023 Kentucky Derby will feature four gray or roan horses. According to Horse Racing Sense, roan is the mixing of white hair with a horse’s base hair color, which lightens as the horse gets ...

The expression a horse of a different color is believed to have originated – at least in print – with Shakespeare, who used the phrase “a horse of the same colour” in his play Twelfth ...

However, in the 137 Kentucky Derbys, seven gray colts have won, and Winning Colors, a roan with a white face, was a filly who beat the boys in 1988, but no horse so pale an ivory as Hansen has ...

The 2023 Kentucky Derby featured four gray or roan horses: Tapit Trice, Reincarnate, Hit Show and Rocket Can. West Saratoga is the only lighter-colored colt for Derby 150 on Saturday at Churchill ...

Color is as good a reason as any for the casual Derby bettor, and gray horses have long held a special place in the hearts of that group. No gray or roan horse has won the Derby since Giacomo in 2005.

The filly has become a sensation in Japanese horse racing circles because of her color: pure white. White thoroughbred horses are exceedingly rare: As few as one in 100,000 are considered pure white.