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Color - *Bay Dun*
Discription - Bay duns have a bay color, but they are not bay since
they have the dun characteristic of a dorsal stripe down the middle of their back.
Color - *Black*
Discription - Black horses have pure black coats with no signs
of brown or any other color. Many horse-people mistake dark bays or liver chestnuts for black. If you can see any other color
(with the exception of white markings) on the horse's coat, he is not a true black.
Color - Blue Roan
Discription - A Blue Roan is a black horse with
the roan gene. The roan gene gives the horse interspersed white hairs on his body. The horse to the left is a blue roan.
Chestnut
Color - *Dark Bay*
Discription - Dark brown coat, reddish or black points. Sometimes
people may think that the horse is black... But in the light it will show that it is not black,but dark bay insted...
Color - *Dun*
Discription - Dun horses have a sandy/yellow to reddish/brown coat.
Their legs are usually darker than their body and sometimes have faint "zebra" stripes on them. Dun horses always have a "dorsal"
stripe, which is a dark stripe down the middle of their back. Sometimes the dorsal stripe continues down the horse's dock
and tail, and through the mane. Many dun colored horses also have face masking, which makes the horse's nose and sometimes
the rest of the face a darker color than the horse's body.
Frost - Discription - Small light
sprinkles on a dark base coat.
Color - *Light Chestnut*
Discription - Light reddish-brown. Light chestnuts do not usually
have points that are lighter than their body. The tips of their manes and tails may be lighter, but the base is the same color.
Marble - Discription - Small
dark sprinkles on a light base coat.
Color - *Red Dun*
Discription - Reddish/chestnut highlights. He
has a dorsal stripe down the middle of the back, and the legs a darker color than the body color.
Sorrel
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Color - *Bay*
Discription - Bay
horses always have black points (legs, muzzle, mane and tail, and the tips of their ears are black). Many bay horses have
black legs that are covered by white markings.
Blanket - Discription - White
on hips and loins with or without spots.
Color - Ivory
Champagne
Discription - Champagne colored horses are
born with bright pink skin which remains pink their entire life. What really distinguishes the champagne color from other
colors is that champagne foals are born with bright blue eyes. Their eyes will usually change color as they age, but this
takes a long time - whereas in other colors, the color of the eye changes more rapidly. The eye color will usually change
from light blue to a hazel/green color.
Champagne colored foals are born with a darker coat than their future adult
coat will be, and all Champagne horses have at least 1 Champagne parent.
Color/markings - *Dappled Gray*
Discribtion - Dappled gray is like light gray spots with a darker gray
around the back ground of the horse.
Dark Chestnut
Color - *Flaxen Chestnut*
Discription - Flaxen chestnuts are a chestnut colored body
with a light flaxen (cream/off-white) colored mane and tail. Legs and tip of ears are the same color as the horse's body.
Many people get confused between flaxen chestnut, light chestnut and palomino. This horse is a flaxen chestnut.
Leopard - Discription - Large
spots all over (dark spots on a light base coat).
Color - *Liver Chestnut*
Discription - A liver chestnut is the darkest of the chestnut
colors. Liver chestnuts do not have black points.
Palomino Roan
Color - *Rose Gray*
Discription - A medium gray horse that has a red tint to give it that light
rosey coloring...Rose gray horses often have dark points like a bay horse does...
Snowflake - Discription - Large
spots all over (light spots on a dark base coat).
Color - *Typical Dun*
Discription - A dorsal stripe down
the middle of the back, with the legs a darker color than the body color. On the horse to the left, the dorsal stripe continues
through the horse's tail.
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Color - Bay Roan
Discription - A Bay Roan is a horse with a bay
coat and the roan gene. The roan gene gives the horse interspersed white hairs on his body. The Bay roan sometimes looks very
similar to a red roan or a blue roan.
Spotted Bum - Found on Appaloosas
Color - Buckskin
Discription - Buckskin horses are a light-to-dark
sandy yellow or tan color with all black points. Buckskins are very similar to duns, however, buckskins do not have a dorsal
stripe or other "primitive" markings that are shown in the dun color.
Color - Cremello
Discription - Cremellos are often called Whites or Albinos which
is incorrect. There are no albino horses,Cremellos have pink skin and blue eyes. Their hair coats are not white but are of
a light creme color. Some can be so light they appear to be white but if you compare them to a true white horse you will see
that they are actually creme. Cremellos will have white manes and tails
White
Color - Fleabitten Gray
Discription - This horse is light gray in color with tiny black and/or brown
spots evenly all over the back ground body color of the horse.
Color - *Light Gray*
Discription - This kind of horse is always mistaked to be white, but it is not
white... around his nose, inside his ears, and between the hind legs was black or dark gray... that indacates
that this is a light gray horse.
Color - Palomino
Discription - Palomino horses have gold-colored
coat with a white or light cream colored mane and tail. The Palomino's coat can range from a light off-white shade to a deep
shade of gold.
Color - Perlino
Discription - Perlinos are often called Whites
or Albinos which is incorrect. There are no albino horses.Perlinos have pink skin and blue eyes. Their hair coats are not
white but are of a light creme color. Some can be so light they appear to be white but if you compare them to a true white
horse you will see that they are actually creme. Perlinos will have darker points, as a Buckskin would, but on a Perlino the
points are orangish.
Color - *Steel Gray*
Discription - Steel gray is a horse with the back ground color being black with
lightly white or gray hairs over top.
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