Bay horses have a body color coat that ranges from light-to-dark reddish-brown hues, and are distinguished by their black mane and tail, legs and ears rims.

The Black horse’s entire body color is black. The black foal may be an overall mousy grey at birth, but will be black (unless diluted) when […]

Chestnuts vary in shade from a light golden red to a dark reddish brown. Quite often, the mane and tail will be the same color as […]

White horses are extremely rare and are born pure white and have dark eyes and pink skin with no freckles or spots on skin or hair. […]

Overo coat patterns occur on any color background and the white areas on overos are usually crisply and cleanly delineated from the colored areas, although some […]

The Sabino pattern usually has white that extends up the legs in ragged patches, and then extends onto the horse’s body from the belly. The head […]

A Tobiano can be any solid-colored horse with legs that are usually white and white spots that are arranged vertically with body spotting that is regular, […]

The combination of the Tobiano and Sabino patterns is a common occurrence in the Tennessee Walking Horse. The Tobiano/Sabino shows characteristics of both the tobiano and […]

A Tovero can have dark pigmentation around the ears, which may extend to cover the forehead and/or eyes. One or both eyes are blue. Most Tovero […]

The Dun gene is a dilution gene that can lighten any body coat color in varying degrees. The dun must prominently display a dark dorsal stripe […]

The Silver gene is a dilution gene that affects only black pigment of the mane and tail and dilutes black body color only slightly. The mane […]

Grey is a color modifier and no horse is born grey. Grey begins to modify the birth coat color sometimes months or even years later. They […]

Roan is not a color. It modifies any coat color with a mixture of white hairs, intermingled from birth with the darker hairs of the coat […]