Coat Colours Flashcards
Base coat colours
Red, black
Is bay a base colour
No, not a true base
Modification of black
Colours that are commonly mistaken
Seal brown, dark bay
Black spots on bay’s white feet are called
ermine spots
Chestnut with dun dilution is
red dun
Black horse with dun dilution is
Grulla/grullo
Bay with dun dilution is
Bay dun
Chestnut with cream 1x dilution?
Chestnut with cream 2x dilution?
1 = Palomino
2 = Cremello
Black with cream 1x dilution? 2x?
1 = smoky black
2 = smoky cream
Bay with cream 1x dilution? 2x?
1 = buckskin
2 = perlino
Common white markings on face
Star
Star connected to strip, strip connected to snip
Blaze
Snip
Star not connected to to strip, strip not connected to a snip
White face/bald face
White on chin/lips
Horses with pink on their nose have…
flesh mark
Different amounts of white on leg, from largest to smallest
Stocking = white to the carpus
Sock = white above the fetlock
Pastern white
Coronet white