Coat Colors
 
Click To Enlarge Black
entire coat, including muzzle, flanks and legs, are black; color may fade when exposed to the sun; could have rusty tinge during certain times of the year; early foals may be an overall mousy gray, then shed to black.
Click To Enlarge Brown
body color brown or black, with light areas at muzzle, eyes, flank and inside upper legs; mane and tail usually black.
Click To Enlarge Bay
body color reddish brown, with variations ranging from dark blood bay to light bay and usually distinguished by black mane and tail, ear tips, lower legs.
Click To EnlargeBay Roan
the overall intermingling of white hairs with bay body color; head, lower legs, mane and tail are usually solid or darker; does not get progressively whiter with age.
Click To EnlargeBlue Roan
the overall intermingling of white hairs with a black body color, head, lower legs, mane and tail are usually solid or darker; does not get progressively whiter with age.
 
Click To EnlargeBuckskin
body color yellowish or gold, mane and tail black; black on lower legs; lacks primitive markings.
 
Click To EnlargeDun
diluted body color of yellowish or gold; mane and tail are black or brown; has dorsal stripe and usually zebra stripes on legs and transverse stripe over withers.
Click To EnlargeGray
dominant over all other color genes; born any color with white hair progressively turning the coat whiter as the horse ages; dark skin; normally grays first around eyes and behind ears.
Click To EnlargeGrullo
a form of dun with body color smoky or mouse-colored (not a mixture of black and white hairs, but each hair mouse-colored); mane and tail black; has black primitive markings.
Click To EnlargePerlino
double dilute of bay/brown resulting in body color of cream or off-white, lower legs, mane and tail light rust or chocolate shade; skin is pinkish or gray; eyes are blue or amber; the coat has enough yellow hue to allow white markings to be visible.
Click To EnlargeChestnut
body color dark red or brownish red; range from very light to liver chestnut; liver chestnut can be distinguished from black or brown only by the bronze or copper highlights on the legs; mane and tail usually dark red or brownish red, but may be flaxen.
Click To EnlargeCremello
double dilute of chestnut/sorrel resulting in body color, mane and tail of cream or off-white with pale pinkish skin; the coat has enough yellow hue to allow white markings to be visible; eyes are blue or amber.
Click To EnlargePalomino
diluted body color varying from rich gold to pale yellow; mane and tail generally pale or off-white but may be same color as body (with nonblack points).
Click To EnlargeRed Dun
a form of dun with body color yellowish or flesh-colored; mane and tail are red or reddish; has red or reddish primitive markings.
Click To EnlargeRed Roan
the overall intermingling of white hairs with chestnut/sorrel body color; head, lower legs, make and tail are usually sorrel or dark red; does not get progressively whiter with age.
Click To EnlargeSorrel
body color reddish or copper-red; mane and tail usually same color as body, but may be flaxen or very dark brown.
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