One white foot - buy him.
Two white feet - try him.
Three white feet - deny him.
Four white feet and a white nose,
Cut off his head and feed him to the crows.
. . . not that I would EVER do that, of course . . . < g >
I used to have a horse with four white feet AND a white star and snip. His feet did seem to be softer.
My mare has just a white coronet on her off hind foot. But if she loses a shoe, it's always on that foot, and if she's a little "off", it's always on that foot. She gets Source and minerals and that seems to help; when we first got her, we couldn't keep a shoe on that foot.
That old saying was said in True Grit:)
Becky
I think that genetic problems in animals are often linked to a color gene also. It seems to happen more often than not that bad feet are white feet. The gene for white causes several problems, the lethal white in horses, in cats, white and blue eyes - deafness, there is a genetic problem in dalmations also, related to the white but I can't remember what it is :)