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Bay
The body color ranges from tan through red to reddish-brown.
The mane and tail may be black, white or both. Black is also commonly found on the lower legs.
Description: bay overo with bald face, right hind sock and left hind pastern. |
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Blue Roan 
A blue roan is a uniform mixture of white with black hairs.
Description: blue roan tobiano with blaze and stockings. |
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Buckskin
The buckskin is a type of dun with body color a shade of yellow
or gold. The mane and tail may be black, white or both. Black is common on the lower legs. A buckskin may not have a black
dorsal stripe. Description: buckskin tobiano with a star, right fore sock and three stockings. |
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Chestnut
The body color is dark red or reddish brown. The mane and tail
are usually dark red or reddish brown, but may be flaxen or white.
Description: chestnut overo with bald (or blaze) face and stockings. |
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Dun
The body color is yellow or gold, with each hair the same color.
The mane and tail may be black, brown, red, yellow, white or mixed. Duns may exhibit a dorsal stripe, a transverse stripe
over the withers, and zebra stripes on the legs. Description: dun tobiano with irregular star, stripe and stockings.
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Gray
Gray is a mixture of white and any other color of hair. A gray
is born solid- or almost solid-colored and gets lighter with age and as more hair grows.
Description: gray overo with bald face and stockings. |
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Grullo
The body color is smoky or mouse-colored (not a mixture of
black and white hairs, but each hair is mouse-colored). The mane and tail may be black, white or both, and there is typically
black on the lower legs. Description: grullo overo with blaze, left fore pastern and three
stockings. |
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Palomino
The body color is a shade of yellow or gold. The mane and tail
are white, yellow or gold. Palominos do not have dorsal stripes like the similarly colored dun horse.
Description: palomino overo with blaze, right fore coronet, right rear sock and left hind stocking. |
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Red Dun
Red dun is a form of dun typically with a yellow- or flesh-colored
body. The mane, tail and dorsal stripe may be red, white or both. Description: red dun tovero with bald face |
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Red Roan
A red roan is more or less a uniform mixture of white with
red hair. The mane and tail may be red, black, flaxen or white. Description: red roan overo with bald face. |
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Sorrel
The body is a clear reddish or copper-red color. The mane and
tail are usually the same color as the body and may be flaxen or white. Description: sorrel overo with bald face,
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