| Bay: |
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Body color ranging from tan, through red, to reddish brown; mane and tail
black - usually black on lower legs. |
| Black: |
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Body color true black without light area; mane and tail black. |
| Brown (Bay): |
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Body color brown or black with light areas at muzzle, eyes, flank and inside
upper leigs; mane and tail black. |
| Sorrel: |
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Body color reddish or copper-red; mane and tail usually same color as body,
but may be flaxen. |
| Chestnut: |
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Body color dark red or brownish-red; mane and tail usually dark red or brownish-red,
but may be flaxen. (Liver Chestnut shown.) |
| Dun: |
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Body color yellowish or gold; mane and tail are black or brown; has dorsal
stripe and usually zebra stripes on legs, and transverse strip over withers. |
| Red Dun: |
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A form of dun with body color yellowish or flesh colored, mane and tail
are red or reddish, flaxen, white or mixed; has red or reddish dorsal stripe
and usually red or reddish zebra stripes on legs and transverse stripe over
withers. |
| Grullo: |
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Body color smoky or mouse-colored (not a mixture of black and white hairs,
but each hair mouse-colored); mane and tail black; usually has black dorsal
stripe and black on lower legs. |
| Buckskin: |
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Body color yellowish or gold; mane and tail black, black on lower legs;
buckskins do not have dorsal stripes. |
| Palomino: |
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Body color a golden yellow; mane and tail white; palominos do not have dorsal
stripes. |
| Gray: |
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Mixture of white with any other colored hairs; often born solid-colored
or almost solid-colored and get lighter with age as more white haris appear.
The horse's skin is black. |
| Dapple-Gray: |
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Dark gray hairs form distinct rings on a gray horse. |
| Fleabitten: |
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Brown specks of hair fleck a gray coat. |
| Red Roan: |
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More or less uniform mixture of white with red hairs on a large portion
of the body, but usually darker on head and lower legs; can have red, black
or flaxen mane and/or tail. |
| Blue Roan: |
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More or less uniform mixture of white with black hairs over a large portion
of the body, but usually darker on head and lower legs; can have a few red
hairs in mixture. |
| Strawberry Roan: |
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Chesnut body color with white hairs interspersed. |
| Spotted: |
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Round spots contrasting a solid coat color. This coloring is often referred
to as an Appaloosa. |
| Skewbald: |
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Large patches of white on another base color. |
| Piebald: |
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Usually irregular patches of white and black. |
