05-03-2012, 12:24 PM
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The two-year-old champion colt named Hansen will not be the favorite in the Kentucky Derby on May 5, but most eyes will unavoidably be upon him. You see, in a field of chestnuts and bays, Hansen is a brilliant white. Well, technically he's a gray, but without boring you with equine pigmentation detail, thoroughbred grays, like the great Native Dancer, turn whiter as they grow older, and Hansen is simply prematurely white. To emphasize the alabaster, his owner wanted to dye his tail blue for the Blue Grass Stakes, but the stick-in-the-mud racing officials thought that was tacky.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/wr...z1tpBKbGKQ
![[Image: HANsenHEADshot.jpg]](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7UCLrO3ajGw/T4nG_uG2X6I/AAAAAAAAFi4/Q4gh3dlvCgU/s1600/HANsenHEADshot.jpg)
![[Image: Hansen-Coglianese-500x400.jpg]](http://blogs-images.forbes.com/teresagenaro/files/2012/03/Hansen-Coglianese-500x400.jpg)
The two-year-old champion colt named Hansen will not be the favorite in the Kentucky Derby on May 5, but most eyes will unavoidably be upon him. You see, in a field of chestnuts and bays, Hansen is a brilliant white. Well, technically he's a gray, but without boring you with equine pigmentation detail, thoroughbred grays, like the great Native Dancer, turn whiter as they grow older, and Hansen is simply prematurely white. To emphasize the alabaster, his owner wanted to dye his tail blue for the Blue Grass Stakes, but the stick-in-the-mud racing officials thought that was tacky.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/wr...z1tpBKbGKQ