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skewbald

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skewbald
a horse coat color of mostly white with some large, irregular patches of any other color than black.


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2hh 12-year-old skewbald gelding Highling Irish Mist (pictured above) clocked up double clear showjumping rounds to win the first of the new season Dengie qualifiers at Todburn Equestrian Centre.
Now word reaches me from Killarney, Co Kerry, where "Jarveys", those legendary carriage-drivers whose piebald and skewbald horses delight tourists, are in revolt on a similar matter.
A wander from one end to the other reveals a wide cross-section of horseflesh; some look as though they're on a day out from a nearby racing stable, others are unmistakably non-pedigree, like the skewbald pony with legs like tree trunks who would have been about 250-1 had there been a bookie present.
 
 
 
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