Colors
Bay-The coat is a light reddish or tan shade of color with black points (legs, muzzle, mane, tail and the tips of their ears. Many bays have black legs that are covered by white markings.
Standard Bay-The coat is deep red, with black points (legs, muzzle, mane and tail and the tips of their ears).
Light Bay-The coat is a bay with a much lighter coat color with (legs, muzzle, mane and tail and the tips of their ears).
Copper Bay-This color tends to be more bright, like a copper penny. The coat has a rich, orange-red body color with black points (legs, muzzle, mane and tail and the tips of their ears).
Wild Bay-The coat color is a deep red with black points, in wild bay the leg points only extend up to the pastern or fetlock and this is often associated with animals that carry the pangare gene. Wild bay is a true bay.
Mahogany Bay-The coat is a deep brown red with black points (legs, muzzle, mane and tail and the tips of their ears).
Blood Bay-The coat is a deep blood-red color with black points (legs, muzzle, mane and tail and the tips of their ears).
Dark Bay-The coat is the darkest of all bays and often mistaken for seal bay. The body is a deep brown red color which can almost look black or deep brown. They have dark color mostly black ear tips, mane and tail, muzzle.
Seal Bay-The coat is a very dark brown that appears black, except around the muzzle and sometimes the belly.
Brindle-The coat color is similar seen on dogs and cats, it is a striped look, with darker hair striping along the horse. Bays have stripes with different coat textures, but not different colors since there are not darker colors in the horses coat. Most brindles have a different coat texture at there stripes, that causes the stripes to stand out of the coat.
Chocolate-The coat is a silver dapple to a dark chocolate shade of the Hershey's kiss, with a white or flaxen mane and tail.
Brown-The coat is a shade of brown with no hint of red. Light areas are found on the muzzle, eyes, flank, belly and inside the upper legs. The mane and tail are brown/black.
Black-True black coats are rare, the body color is full black with no other color visible including the mane and tail.
Chestnut-The body coat and mane and tail are a dark red or reddish brown color.
Sorrel Chestnut-The body coat ranges from bold red to more toned down copper color, the mane and tail are a lighter color.
Sandy Chestnut-The body coat is a very pale red or strawberry blonde color, mane and tail range from dark to light in color.
Liver Chestnut-The body coat is a very dark chestnut color with lots of black hair but keeps the red color, same with the mane and tail.
Flaxen Liver Chestnut-The body coat is a very dark chestnut color, the mane and tail however is a flaxen/blonde color.
Buckskin-The buckskin is a color light-dark sandy yellow or tan color. The mane and tail are black or dark brown and on the lower legs of the horse. A buckskin does not have a dorsal stripe.
Sooty Buckskin-A sooty buckskin is a buckskin color with darker shading making them look dusty and black/dark brown legs. They do not have a dorsal stripe but they can have something similar.
Dun-The dun is a sandy/yellow to reddish/brown coat. There mane, tail and legs are a black/dark brown color, the legs sometimes have faint zebra stripes on them. A dun always has a dorsal stripe, which is a dark stripe down the middle of their back and sometimes can continue down the horses dock and tail and though the mane. Many dun colored horses have face masking, which makes the horse's nose and sometimes the face a darker color then the horse's face.
Dunalino-The coat color has a palomino base with the dun gene over the palomino. They have a dark brown shading coloring on there dorsal stripe, legs, muzzle and face.
Red Dun-The coat is a reddish tan without the range of shades in other dun colors. Points and dun factor points are a reddish brown and must show contrast with the body coat. Dorsal stripe must be there.
Bay Dun-The coat is a bay with a dune gene. They have a black/dark brown dorsal stripe, muzzle, eyes, legs and ears on the tips, they also have very faint zebra stripes on there legs.
Palomino-The coat is a shade of yellow/gold color, the mane and tail is a white color. They do not have dorsal stripes.
Isabella-The coat is a cream color with the mane and tail being white. This is the lightest shade of palomino. They do not have dorsal stripes.
Chocolate Palomino-The coat is a chocolate color with the mane and tail being a palomino/white color.This is the darkest color of palomino.
Smutty Palomino-The coat is a palomino color with dark shading over the body, as though it has been rolling in soot. They often have dapple makings on there coat. They do not have a dorsal stripe.
Creamllo-The coat is a essentially a white horse with some darker color shading on the knees and fetlocks with the mane and tail being a white color. They always have blue eyes. This is the result of a cross between a homozygous cream and a chestnut.
Pearlino-The coat is a basically a white horse with some darker color shading on the knees and fetlocks with the mane and tail being a darker color then there coat color. They always have blue or glass colored eyes. This is the result of a cross between homozygous cream and a bay.
Champagne-The coat is a dilute, like the ones that create palomino and dun, there is different colors depending on the color that is being acted on such as, gold champagnes (champagne on a chestnut/sorrel), sable champagne, amber champagne (champagne on a bay) and the classic champagne color (champagne on black). The foals are born a normal color, which lightens when the foal sheds their foal coat rather ten darker like other dilutes. They are born with bright blue eyes that darken to a green or hazel with sometimes blue specks in them. They are born with pink skin which tends to fain color as they age, this affects both black and red pigment that turns black to buff or brown and red to gold. They often have a stain or metallic sheen to their coats. A cross between a champagne and non-champagne has a 50% chance of producing a champagne.
Classic Champagne-This coat is a champagne on black color with the mane and tail being a brown/darker color. The classic champagne also has purplish-grey freckles on the pink skin. The classic champagne is the rarest of all champagne colors.
Gold Champagne-This coat is a champagne on chestnut/sorrel with the mane and tail being the same color or lighter color. They have freckles on the pink skin.
Amber Champagne-This coat is a one or two champagne genes on a bay with the mane and tail being darker color and the ends being a lighter color. They have brown points and the legs are normally lighter then the mane and tail. The foal coat is darker then the adults but the coat becomes lighter with age and freckles will start showing up.
Sable Champagne-This coat is a champagne on a seal brown/brown with the mane and tail being a darker color with the tips being lighter in color. They get freckles on the pink skin as they age. Sable and classic champagne are hard to tell apart.
Roan-The coat is a mixture of white and with any other color hairs while the mane, tail, head, legs, points are mostly a solid color. The roan is dominantly-inherited. True roans are always present at birth, though it may be hard to see until the foal coat sheds. The coat may lighten or darken from winter to summer just like grullo. If the skin is damaged even by a minor scrape, cut or brand, the coat grows back as a solid color, these are called corn spots or corn marks, they can even appear even without the horse have a visible injury.
Bay Roan-The coat is a roan that is bay with white hairs mix in which gives the mane and tail a dark color. Depending on the kind of bay there are different shades of coat. The bay roan has dark solid color on mane, tail, legs, face and points.
Red Roan-The coat is roan that is chestnut with white hairs mixed in which gives the mane and tail a red, black or flaxen color. Depending on the kind of chestnut there are different shades of coat like, strawberry roan is a light chestnut or sorrel with white hairs, then there is the lilac roan which is a dark chestnut with white hairs, and then there is honey roan which is the lightest sorrels or palominos with white hairs. The red roan has darker solid color on the mane, tail, legs, face and points.
Blue Roan-The coat is roan that is black with white hairs mix in which gives the mane and tail a black color. The blue roan has black solid color on the mane, tail, legs, face and points.
Grullo-The coat color is a dun gene acting as a dilution gene over the black gene for all shades of grullo , grullo is part of dun family, the basic coat color stays the same for all it's life but the shading does sometimes change each season, most grullos have a dark color mostly black ear tips, face, mane, tail, dorsal stripe, legs, zebra stripes on there legs sometimes and sometimes shading on the body coat. If a grullo also carries the gray gene, it will be born a mouse tan-gray shade, but will lighten up and develop white hair coat with age. The grullo has many shades of grullo like black grullo, silver grullo, slate grullo, lobo grullo, the grullo though is just called a (gray dun).
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Gray-The coat color is a mixture of white and gray colors and the mane and tail are white with sometimes gray. The gray always has a gray muzzle. A gray is born solid shade of gray or almost solid gray color and gets lighter with age. Graying normally starts when the foal sheds its foal coat to 12+ years after that it is pretty impossible to tell what it main color coat was. Many people think gray is white which it is not.
Dapple Gray-The coat color is a mixture of white and gray colors with gray dapples with the mane and tail being white and gray. They start a darker color and go lighter with age. They have a gray muzzle.
Fleabitten Gray-The coat color is a mixture of white and gray colors with gray, black, brown color specks on there coat, there mane and tail is a mixture of white, gray, brown, black colors. They have a gray muzzle.
Mouse Gray-The coat color is a solid smoky gray color with the mane and tail being a black color. They have a darker color muzzle and legs.
Rose Gray-The coat color is a bay or chestnut that has gray over it and the red hair still shows with the mane and tail being the same colors. They have a gray muzzle and sometimes the legs.
Mulberry Gray-The coat color is a predominantly white with darker color shading on the legs sometimes dappley with the mane and tail being dark red and the tips yellow.
White/Albino-The coat color is a white with pink skin with the mane and tail being white. The eye color can be brown, blue or amber. They are very rare color and most do not survive for long due to sensitivity to light and health issues.
There is no such thing as albino.
There is no such thing as albino.
Pinto/Paint-The coat color is a white with a pinto marking on top which can be any color with the mane and tail being same or different color from the body. There is no such thing as a paint color it is just pinto though there is a paint horse which have the pinto color/markings. Any breed can have the pinto color/marking.
Piebald-The coat color is a black base coat color with one of three basic spotting patterns overlaying the base color. It is similar to skewbald.
Skewbald-The coat color is a bay and white with the mane and tail being the same of tri-colored. They usually have pink skin under the white markings and dark skin under the non-white areas. It is similar to piebald.
Tri-Colored-The coat color is a three different coat colored pinto spotting pattern of large white and dark colored patches, usually bay, black and white same with the mane.
Tobiano-The coat color is a spotted color pattern commonly seen in the pinto color/marking which is produced by a dominant gene. The tobiano gene produces white hair, pink skin patches on the base coat color, also white legs from hocks or knees down, white crossing the back between the withers and the dock of the tail, white is in a vertical pattern, facial markings are similar to those of a traditionally solid-colored horse/pony like star, snipe or blaze, extreme white facial markings suggest the presence of additional color pattern genes beyond tobiano, White patches are usually rounded or oval in shape instead of jagged like overo and dark color extending down the neck giving the appearance of a shield. You can see the color from birth and does no change throughout the horse/pony lifetime, unless the horse carries the gray gene.
Overo-The coat color is a solid color with white markings over it same with the mane and tail. White does not usually cross the back of the horse/pony between the withers and tail. All four legs or at least one must be a darker color. Face markings are usually bald-faced, apron-faced or bonnet-faced. The white color throughout the overo's body is generally irregular or sometimes jagged instead of rounded or oval markings like the tobiano.
Tovero-The coat color is a mix of tobiano and overo and same with the mane. The coat can be patches and spots.
There are also several other pattern types.
Piebald-The coat color is a black base coat color with one of three basic spotting patterns overlaying the base color. It is similar to skewbald.
Skewbald-The coat color is a bay and white with the mane and tail being the same of tri-colored. They usually have pink skin under the white markings and dark skin under the non-white areas. It is similar to piebald.
Tri-Colored-The coat color is a three different coat colored pinto spotting pattern of large white and dark colored patches, usually bay, black and white same with the mane.
Tobiano-The coat color is a spotted color pattern commonly seen in the pinto color/marking which is produced by a dominant gene. The tobiano gene produces white hair, pink skin patches on the base coat color, also white legs from hocks or knees down, white crossing the back between the withers and the dock of the tail, white is in a vertical pattern, facial markings are similar to those of a traditionally solid-colored horse/pony like star, snipe or blaze, extreme white facial markings suggest the presence of additional color pattern genes beyond tobiano, White patches are usually rounded or oval in shape instead of jagged like overo and dark color extending down the neck giving the appearance of a shield. You can see the color from birth and does no change throughout the horse/pony lifetime, unless the horse carries the gray gene.
Overo-The coat color is a solid color with white markings over it same with the mane and tail. White does not usually cross the back of the horse/pony between the withers and tail. All four legs or at least one must be a darker color. Face markings are usually bald-faced, apron-faced or bonnet-faced. The white color throughout the overo's body is generally irregular or sometimes jagged instead of rounded or oval markings like the tobiano.
Tovero-The coat color is a mix of tobiano and overo and same with the mane. The coat can be patches and spots.
There are also several other pattern types.