Blue eyes

The foal referred to is in the below photo, not the one to the left, which is the answer, not the foal in question.


The bay foal with blue eyes. We look at him, and something doesn't seem to fit the pattern of things we expect to see. We look at him twice, then again.

A white horse, we don't notice if he has blue eyes or not, but on a bay foal, we look twice.

You know what the foal is like? The black guy with blue eyes in Conan the Barbarian.

Blue eyes are something we see all the time. Black people we see all the time. But how often do you see a black person with blue eyes?

If you look long enough, you can see that the foal has white hairs roaned in in a strip of hair between the blaze and his blue eye. I'm guessing that his blaze is really a bald (a fatter blaze, not no hair).

So he really is genetically similar to a bay horse with a fat white blaze which extends to touch his eyes. Thats why his eyes failed to make pigment.

If your looking for something different, here is a photo of a horse with a reverse blaze. Come back again and I'll show you more.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reverse_blaze.jpg