What would your colours be?

[peter .h]

If you, on your own, owned a race horse; what would you have your silk colours be?

Mine would be:

Describe yours and if it’s feasible; i’ll post a pic of what it’d look like, like mine above. It’s fun!

[Tuffers]

If you, on your own, owned a race horse; what would you have your silk colours be?

Mine would be:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p63/PepsiBoy1/id191702-071602-071617.png

Describe yours and if it’s feasible; i’ll post a pic of what it’d look like, like mine above. It’s fun!

That looks great – how did you do it?

[hoofhearted]

Tuffers, play around with ideas and design your own at:

http://www.horsehats.com/jockey-silks.html

[peter .h]

If you, on your own, owned a race horse; what would you have your silk colours be?

Mine would be:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p63/PepsiBoy1/id191702-071602-071617.png

Describe yours and if it’s feasible; i’ll post a pic of what it’d look like, like mine above. It’s fun!

That looks great – how did you do it?

There’s a code that you put together and put it into the URL and it comes up. It’s really fun to play with!

Copy this:

http://media.gg.com/silks/?id=AABBCC-AA … =%23FFFFFF

The first AABBCC is for the body, the second one is for the cap and third is for the sleeves. Replace the AA with the style number you want, replace BB with the background colour you want and the CC is for the colour of the pattern. Here are the numbers needed…

Body style:
01 – plain
02 – plain, line down middle
03 – chevrons
04 – plain, thick line down middle
05 – plain, two lines
06 – plain, 4 thick lines
07 – horizontal thick line
08 – 3 horizontal thick lines
09 – half and half vertical
10 – quarters (harlequin)
11 – slash
12 – cross
13 – V
14 – 3 chevrons
15 – croatian football shirt type, lots of squares
16 – diamonds
17 – polka dots
18 – stars
19 – cross of lorraine
20 – one diamond
21 – one star
22 – circle
23 – triangle
24 – 4 triangles? Looks awful
25 – 3 dot slash
26 – 3 diamond horizontal
27 – square

Cap style:
01 Plain
02 Horizontal stripes
03 Vertical stripes
04 Squares
05 Dots
06 Two colours
07 One Star
08 One Diamond
09 Stars
10 Diamonds

Sleeve style:
01 Plain
02 Horizontal stripe
03 Horizontal stripes
04 Two lines (vertical)
05 Chevrons
06 Outline
07 Stars
08 Spots
09 Half and half (vertical)
10 Half and half (horizontal)
11 Diamonds
12 Squares

Colours:
01 Beige/Off White
02 Black
03 Brown
04 Black
05 Dark Green
06 Green
07 Grey
08 Light Blue
09 Green
10 Royal Red
11 Mauve
12 Orange
13 Pink
14 Royal Blue/Purple
15 Red
16 Blue
17 White
18 Yellow

It’s really simple knce you get into it.

[Goldikova]

http://i43.tinypic.com/15rcexd.gif

[dprp]

http://www.allertons.com & http://www.treehouseonline.co.uk have (easier?) tools to do this too.

[peter .h]

http://www.allertons.com & http://www.treehouseonline.co.uk have (easier?) tools to do this too.

Yeah it’s easier, but i just like mine cos they look like the type you get in the center pages on Grand National day.

[graysonscolumn]

Beat me to it, David! Allertons is my weapon of choice, although it would handy if they acknowledged such a thing as navy blue exists.

gc

Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

[Nathan Hughes]

Beat me to it, David! Allertons is my weapon of choice, although it would handy if they acknowledged such a thing as navy blue exists.

gc

Dear Grayson, we all know your colours of choice would be all black, seeing as you are from the dark side.

Charles Darwin to conquer the World

[graysonscolumn]

gc

Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

[MDeering]

From a July ’08 thread.

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/340/mycoloursol0.png

[MDeering]

PS. Peter, your code/URL combo doesn’t work.

[peter .h]

Sorry, the URL has changed. Here’s the valid one:

http://www.gg.com/media/silks/?id=XXYYZ … =%23FFFFFF

Body style:
01 – plain
02 – plain, line down middle
03 – chevrons
04 – plain, thick line down middle
05 – plain, two lines
06 – plain, 4 thick lines
07 – horizontal thick line
08 – 3 horizontal thick lines
09 – half and half vertical
10 – quarters (harlequin)
11 – slash
12 – cross
13 – V
14 – 3 chevrons
15 – croatian football shirt type, lots of squares
16 – diamonds
17 – polka dots
18 – stars
19 – cross of lorraine
20 – one diamond
21 – one star
22 – circle
23 – triangle
24 – 4 triangles? Looks awful
25 – 3 dot slash
26 – 3 diamond horizontal
27 – square

Sleeve style:
01 Plain
02 Horizontal stripe
03 Horizontal stripes
04 Two lines (vertical)
05 Chevrons
06 Outline
07 Stars
08 Spots
09 Half and half (vertical)
10 Half and half (horizontal)
11 Diamonds
12 Squares

Cap style:
01 Plain
02 Horizontal stripes
03 Vertical stripes
04 Squares
05 Dots
06 Two colours
07 One Star
08 One Diamond
09 Stars
10 Diamonds

Colours:
01 Beige/Off White
02 Black
03 Brown
04 Black
05 Dark Green
06 Green
07 Grey
08 Light Blue
09 Green
10 Royal Red
11 Mauve
12 Orange
13 Pink
14 Royal Blue/Purple
15 Red
16 Blue
17 White
18 Yellow

XXYYZZ is for body

AABBCC is for sleaves

DDEEFF is for cap

Here are ones for the ones aleady posted:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p63/PepsiBoy1/id071215-041215-071215.png

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p63/PepsiBoy1/id080617-030617-020617.png

[Ugly Mare]

…that still doesn’t work Peter…I want to do one

[peter .h]

…that still doesn’t work Peter…I want to do one

If it doesn’t work by copy and pasting the URL into the… URL at the top; get a photobucket account and upload via URL and paste it into there… should work then, surely?

[Ugly Mare]

I shall try peter…thank you

[Anonymous]

http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt147/Fist2k8/racingcolours.jpg

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