Corporate Steeds of Wells Fargo and Anheiser-Busch

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Daniel Roberts, Battle of the Corporate Steeds. Fortune, Nov 18, 2013.
http://features.blogs.fortune.cn ... weiser-wells-fargo/

Note:

(a) Clydesdale horse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydesdale_horse
(a breed of draught horse derived from the farm horses of Clydesdale, Scotland, and named after that region; Often bay in colour, they show significant white markings due to the presence of sabino genetics)
(i) Clydesdale was a district in Scotland (1975-1996).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydesdale
(ii) Clydesdale. Online Etymology Dictionary, undated.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Clydesdale
(iii) Sabino horse
* Brooks SA and Bailey E, Exon skipping in the KIT gene causes a Sabino spotting pattern in horses. Mamm Genome, 16: 893-902 (2005).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16284805
* sabino (n):
"a pinto horse with a white spotted pattern"
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sabino

Wiktionary provides no etymology, but the definition is correct. No other English dictionaries, as far as I can tell, define sabino.
(iv) In fact, white color in horse--be it the entire horse or part of it--so far has been attributed to mutations inactivating the kit gene.
* Haase B et al, Allelic Heterogeneity at the Equine KIT Locus in Dominant White (W) Horses. PLoS Genet, 3: e195 (2007) (full text).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2065884/
* For the kit gene, see CD117
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD117
(on the surface of certain types of hematopoietic (blood) progenitors in the bone marrow; a receptor of tyrosine-protein kinase, whose ligand is stem cell factor (also known as "steel factor" or "c-kit ligand")

(b) "1858 Year the company [Wells Fargo] started using horses"
(i) history of Wells Fargo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wells_Fargo
(Vermont native Henry Wells and New Yorker William G.Fargo watched the California [gold rush] boom economy with keen interest; In 1852, they organized Wells, Fargo & Company)
(ii) The English surname Wells is from "Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream.’"
(iii) The Hungarian surnames Fargo/Vargo/ Varga are from "Hungarian varga ‘cobbler’, ‘shoemaker.’"