JAMES' ROAN LADY Registered with AQHA as a roan however her parents are chestnut & sorrel and two non-roans cannot produce a roan. It may be that one of her parents were registered with their birth color although they had the roan gene passing it on to her. (Roans were often registered with their birth color and never changed as they roaned out.) Or, perhaps she was a roany sabino or rabicano.