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Ali-Zeus (now deceased)
Purebred Arabian; DNA tested Ee, aa; never looked black anywhere,
according to his owner, who is:
Tamara Woodcock
Aelfleah Farm
Scurry, Texas
BLUE STAR Arabians and
Arabian-influenced Sportponies
www.aelfleahfarm.com
tamara@aelfleahfarm.com
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Our most recent picture of Ali-Zeus, above, was received April 5, 2007. Tamara said
of it: "This was taken this past weekend. He was body clipped on February 20th, so is
in short summer coat now." And in a later email about the same picture:
"Thanks! The gold you see is the winter undercoat exposed by clipping. In
about 2 more weeks, the gold won't show thorough anymore after it sheds,
just leaving the brown. But still no black! Sadly, his first foal shows no
signs of dilution except blue-ish eyes (more blue than normal, but not as
obvious as ZEUS's gold eyes)."
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| Webmaster's note: usually blue eyes are a sign of a
dilution (or paint) gene. However, these eyes look much darker than
what are usually called "blue eyes" ---> |
... of this picture of Ali-Zeus' "blue-eyed" purebred Arabian son, Tamara
says: "Photo was taken with a flash, so that's why the fur is so bright.
This is a bay colt by ALI-ZEUS and out of ASF WITNESS. His eye, I
think, will darken some more, but will always have a blue tint. Or then
again, he could follow along with a related filly, and his eyes change from
blue to honey has he ages. Just have to wait. " -Tamara
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In December of 2005, Tamara wrote:
"... saw his sister (same sire out of full sibling dam) this weekend. The
filly looks exactly like him in build as should be expected from such close
relations, but she also matched color-wise. All of her black points (mane,
tail, legs) are the exact same shade of "black", which is actually brown, as
Zeus." ... "Same gold eyes also. Zeus isn't homozygous" (for black, so
he's Ee) "but he is non-agouti." (aa) "The filly hasn't been tested but she is
bay based (agouti)." (A_) "I haven't looked at further testing. UC Davis
did the test this summer." (2005)
Caution: if you scroll down farther, you will see a shot of the skin etc.
under Ali-Zeus' tail. This is very interesting, as it does look like the
skin of some sort of a dilute, since the underside of the tail itself has light
skin. The "white" is just sunlight.
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