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RED ROAN [2 records]

Record 1 2011-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

A horse with a red and white coat.

CONT

A Red Roan (sometimes called "Strawberry Roan") is a chestnut or sorrel horse with the roan gene. The roan gene gives the horse interspersed white hairs on his body.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
CONT

AUBÈRE : ce cheval a une robe où se mélange le blanc et l'alezan. C'est une robe rare.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

Depending on the other colors mixed with white, roans are described as red roan (mixed with bay).

OBS

Bay roan and red roan are often presented as equivalent. They do not present necessarily a bay pattern as [does] the French word "rouan."

OBS

Colour of horse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
CONT

On appelle Rouan vineux, un cheval rouan, mêlé d'alezan et de bai doré.

OBS

Couleur du cheval.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
CONT

Roano: mezcla de blanco, alazán y negro en proporciones variables, que da las variantes siguientes: roano claro, roano ordinario, roano vinoso y roano oscuro.

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