{"id":4149,"date":"2010-10-23T04:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T21:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2010-10-23T04:29:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T21:29:29","slug":"study-finds-gray-horses-are-prone-to-skin-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/study-finds-gray-horses-are-prone-to-skin-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds gray horses are prone to skin cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Recent studies have revealed something that has mystified the horse world since man first domesticated his equine friends some 5,000 plus years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Occasionally, a new born foal that has normal coloured markings such as black, or bay, or brown, may start to turn grey at an early age and then eventually turn almost white.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This process resembles how peoples&#8217; hair turns grey as they become older, but can happen relatively quickly in the grey horse and usually by the time they are only six to eight years of age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In history, early societies thought this strange phenomenon was a sign of purity or divine intervention and the animal was worshiped or revered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">White horses became the favourites of royalty and great leaders, as evidenced by the many portraits and paintings down through the ages which depict them under saddle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now scientists from Uppsala University have determined that these peculiar horses all share a common gene that is thought to have mutated from a single horse way in the distant past. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebarrieexaminer.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2805556\" target=\"_blank\">Read more..<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent studies have revealed something that has mystified the horse world since man first domesticated his equine friends some 5,000 plus years ago. Occasionally, a new born foal that has normal coloured markings such as black, or bay, or brown, may start to turn grey at an early age and then eventually turn almost white. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}