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Originally Posted by Sightseek
A little on color:
Different color horses that have won the Derby.
Bay - 47
Chestnut - 43
Dark Bay/Brown - 8 Gray - 5
Black - 4
Roan - 2
Gray/Roan - 2
Winning Colors (1988) is the only roan to win the Derby.
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You don't see true roans in the TB these days (mixture of colored and white hairs that does NOT change with age). BUt the Jockey CLub decided to use the term 'roan' to describe horses whose coat base color was reddish (like a bright red bay, or red chestnut). Nearly all the so-called 'roans' in the Stud Book are actually, genetically grays. Just to make things interesting, however, the JC sometimes registers colored horses with minimal random white hair patterns (like rabicano or skunk-tail) as roans, too.