Whenever
a foal is born to a grey parent one of the first jobs is to check for white
hairs – sometimes there's a few here and there, and other times, well, there's
goggles.
To the uninitiated, just about every grey horse is not born grey, rather they're
a solid colour, anything from jet black to chestnut, with sometimes no more
than a few white hairs which is the tell-tale sign that in time that foal is
going to turn as grey as can be.
For this colt, born at Victoria's Rosemont Stud, his tell-tale signs were a
little more prominent and quite a bit cuter, with Rosemont Stud proprietor
Anthony Mithen tagging him "Goggles”.
He is out of Street Cry mare South Street and one of the first crop of foals
for the charismatic grey Puissance De Lune.
Click here to see more Puissance De Lune foals.
Click here to see more foals born at Rosemont Stud this season.
As for Goggles, it won't be long before his eyewear comes off as he's going
grey as we speak.
To give you a rough idea we've pulled out the progress of a horse called
Moonovermanhattan as he went from foal, to yearling to 3YO Group Two winner of
the AAMI Vase at Moonee Valley.