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Horse Colors
March 18th, 2017
Black
• Black is a hair coat color of
horses in which the entire hair
coat is black. Black is a relatively
uncommon coat color, and it is
not uncommon to mistake dark
chestnuts or bays for black.
Seal Brown
• Seal brown is a hair coat color of
horses characterized by a nearblack body color; with black
points, the mane, tail and legs;
but also reddish or tan areas
around the eyes, muzzle, behind
the elbow and in front of the
stifle.
Gray/Grey
• Gray or grey is a coat color of
horses characterized by
progressive silvering of the
colored hairs of the coat. Most
gray horses have black skin and
dark eyes; unlike many
depigmentation genes, gray
does not affect skin or eye color.
Bay
• Bay is a hair coat color of horses,
characterized by a reddishbrown body color with a black
mane, tail, ear edges, and lower
legs. Bay is one of the most
common coat colors in many
horse breeds.
Sorrel
• A Quarter Horse registered as
"sorrel“. While the term is
usually used to refer to a
copper-red shade of chestnut, in
some places it is used generically
in place of "chestnut" to refer to
any reddish horse with a samecolor or lighter mane and tail,
ranging from reddish-gold to a
deep burgundy or chocolate
shade.
Chestnut
• Chestnut is a hair coat color of
horses consisting of a reddishto-brown coat with a mane and
tail the same or lighter in color
than the coat. Genetically and
visually, chestnut is
characterized by the absolute
absence of true black hairs.
Red Roan
• Bay roan, also sometimes called
"red roan" "Blue" roan. Roan is
a horse coat color pattern
characterized by an even
mixture of colored and white
hairs on the body, while the
head and "points"—lower legs,
mane and tail—are mostly solidcolored.
Blue Roan
• Bay roan, also sometimes called
"red roan" "Blue" roan. Roan is
a horse coat color pattern
characterized by an even
mixture of colored and white
hairs on the body, while the
head and "points"—lower legs,
mane and tail—are mostly solidcolored.
Dun
• A bay dun, also called a "classic"
or "zebra" dun. ... A dun horse
always has a dark stripe down
the middle of its back, a tail and
mane darker than the body coat,
and usually darker face and legs.
Other duns may appear a light
yellowish shade, or a steel gray,
depending on the underlying
coat color genetics
Grullo/Grulla
• Grullo or grulla is a color of
horses in the dun family,
characterized by tan-gray or
mouse-colored hairs on the
body, often with shoulder and
dorsal stripes and black barring
on the lower legs
Overo
• Overo refers to several
genetically unrelated pinto
coloration patterns of whiteover-dark body markings in
horses, and is a term used by
the American Paint Horse
Association to classify a set of
pinto patterns that are not
Tobiano
Tobiano
• Tobiano is a spotted color
pattern commonly seen in Pinto
horses, produced by a dominant
gene. The tobiano gene
produces white-haired, pinkskinned patches on a base coat
color. The coloration is present
from birth and does not change
throughout the horse's lifetime,
unless the horse also carries the
gray gene.
Palomino
• Palomino is a coat color in
horses, consisting of a gold coat
and white mane and tail.
Genetically, the palomino color
is created by a single allele of a
dilution gene called the cream
gene working on a "red"
(chestnut) base coat.