2021 Horse Racing - 2021 Oka Sho(JPN)
A registered white racehorse in Japan has become the first of her colour to win a Group One race.
The undefeated two-year-old filly Sodashi won her fourth consecutive race when she took out the 1600m Hanshin Juvenile Fillies stakes on December 13. She carried 54kg and was against 17 other horses. The win has elevated her to favorite for the title of Japan’s champion two-year-old filly.
Sodashi is by the grey stallion Kurofune and out of the famous “spotted wonder”, Buchiko, who is registered as white, but has dark chestnut “medicine hat” markings on her head, and jagged chestnut dapples or spots on her body, similar to appaloosa markings. Buchiko’s dam is the pure white mare Shirayukihime, by Sunday Silence. Buchiko is by King Kamehameha.
The white colouring of this line is through a specific gene mutation, the KIT gene, which plays an important role in colour during embryonic development, causing an absence of melanocytes in depigmented skin areas.
https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2020/12/18/white-thoroughbred-horse-group-one-win/
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