19/01/2024
Fashion's Touch (USA), *2015
Gray thoroughbred mare bred by Woodford Thoroughbreds, sired by a G2 winner Old Fashioned out of K. O.'s Touch. Trained by Eric Heitzmann, she raced on flat dirt between the years 2017 and 2020.
Fashion's Touch is now enjoying her second career of an eventer.
Picture posted with kind permission of the photographer.
https://barbaradlivingston.photoshelter.com/
Other credits to: Four Footed Fotos, Patrycja Szpyra
🏆 15: 2-3-1
🧬 https://www.pedigreequery.com/fashions+touch
🖌 Gray with a somatic mutation markings
💬 Somatic mutations tend to present themselves as irregular patches of colour in unexpected places. Sometimes the phenotype can be confused with chimerism and it can be very difficult to tell which is responsible without a genetic test. However, somatic mutations are typically less regular in their distribution. In some cases a somatic mutation will be a small spot of white discolouration where pigment cells did not proliferate to the region fairly late in development. In other cases, a big patch of another colour will be the outcome. In effect, a somatic mutation is not heritable. It is localised and typically present from birth.
