Horse Colors

Bay

A bay is a brown coloured horse with black mane, tail and legs (known as points).

Black

A rare colour, to be a true black the horse should be black all over, with black points or some times white points

Blue Roan/ Bay Roan

A roan has white hairs spread throughout its coat. Areas which have short hair tend to be darker, while the body is lighter. There are three variations; a stawberry roan (chesnut coat), a bay or red roan (bay coat) and a blue roan (dark brown or black coat).

Blue RoanBay Roan

Brown

The brown horse is dark brown all over with a brown mane and tail. There must be no black points.

buckskin

The buckskin has a yellow body and black hairs on the mane, tail, their four legs, and they have a dark black line down their back.

Chesnut

A chesnut has reddish or gingerish colouration with matching mane and tail.

Grey

Grey horses have a black skin and a mix of black and white hairs. They can vary in colour from black to almost white.

Albino

An albino has white hair, white skin and wall eyes (lack of pigment in the iris of the eye) and is completely lacking in pigmentation.

Palamino

A palamino is a golden color with a white mane and tail.

Paint/ Colored

A piebald horse is one which is white and black. A skewbald is white and any colour other than black. The coat has large irregular patches of each colour and has black skin under the coloured area and white or pink skin under the white coat. The lack of pigmentation may also show in the eye which may be blue (known as wall eye). Horses which have patches of three colours are referred to as coloured.

Piebald Skewbald

Appaloosa

There are three varieties of markings recognised as appaloosa. The leopard spotted which has dark spots all over on a light background. The blanket spotted which has spots of any colour on its rump and the snowflake spotted which has white spots on any other coloured background.

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