Horse Colours

Bay – Bronze brown coat with black mane, tail and forelock. Coat may vary in colour from bronze to blood red to dark caramel.
White markings are allowed.

Brown – A mixture of black and brown hairs which makes a mud-like, chocolate coloured coat with a mane, tail and forelock of the same colour.
May vary from mud coloured to dust coloured to cocoa coloured. White markings are allowed.

Black – Coat, mane, tail and forelock all the colour of ebony or the sky at midnight. No white markings, but may have a blue coloured sheen
on shoulders and flanks.

Chestnut – This colour of coat varies from pale golden to the colour of roast chestnuts to a rich, red brown. The mane, tail and forelock
may be darker or lighter then the colour of the coat. White markings are allowed.

Grey – A horse with a grey coat looks like someone took a black pencil, coloured it in lightly with the black pencil and then took a white
pencil and coloured over the black with it making a silver-like colour, without the shiny sheen. White markings are allowed and mane, tail and
forelock are the same colour as the coat.

Dappled Grey – Coat, mane, tail and forelock are the same colour that I described above except the coat is decorated with white spots
about the size of your fist. White markings are allowed.

Fleabitten Grey – The coat is basically the same colour as the grey but a horse with a fleabitten coat looks like someone dipped a
paintbrush in black, red and cream paint and then flicked it all over them. Yup, these horses are covered in tiny red, black and cream flecks!
No white markings are allowed on fleabitten greys.

Steel Grey – Mane, tail, forelock and coat are all the colour of a piece steel rod. White markings are allowed.

Dun – The coat of a dun horse can vary from pale yellow to pale brown to a buttermilk colour while the mane is always black.
Sometimes the horse may have a black dorsal stripe running along its back or zebra markings on its hind legs. No white markings allowed.

Buckskin – A golden yellow coat with a black mane, tail and forelock with black legs. Sometimes with a dorsal stripe or zebra markings.
No white markings allowed.

Brindle – A coat, tail, mane and forelock the colour of grey and brown mixed together. White markings are allowed.

Silver – Grey with a shiny, glossy sheen that shines in warm sunlight like a polished silver goblet.
No white markings are allowed.

Roan – A mixture of pale red, brown and white hairs that cover the horse’s mane, coat, forelock and tail.
White markings are allowed.

Strawberry Roan – Same colour on coat, mane, tail and forelock as I described above except with a slightly darker red.
White markings are allowed.

Blue Roan – A mixture of blue, grey, black and white hairs that cover the coat, mane, tail and forelock.
White markings are allowed.

White – This colour is well, umm . . . white! But in horse language only albino horses and Lipizzaners can be called white.
All other horses with whitish coats are classified as greys.

Cremello – Just like white except with a softer, creamy look that is on the mane, tail, coat and forelock.

Liver Chestnut – This colour is just like chestnut except it is a darker brown then red-gold. White markings are allowed.

Leopard Spot – A white horse with black, brown, grey, chestnut or golden spots that average in size at about the size of your fist.
Mane, tail and forelock are the colour of the spots.

Spotted Blanket – A brown, black, grey, chestnut or golden horse with a patch of white on its rump that is covered with spots that
are the same colour as the rest of the body. White markings are allowed and the mane, tail and forelock are the colour of the coat.

Few Spots – A white coat with several tiny black, brown, grey, chestnut or golden flecks on it. Mane, tail and forelock are white.

Palomino – A golden coat with a creamy white mane, tail and forelock. You can sometimes get an amazing palomino colour called Fire and
Ice which is a red-gold coat with a blue ice coloured mane! White markings are allowed.

Piebald – A coat with big irregular black and white patches on it.

Skewbald – A coat with big irregular brown and white patches on it.

Grulla – The only way to describe this coat is this: It looks like someone took a bucket of gold and silver nuggets,
poured them into a blender, blended them up and then poured the mixture all over the horse. White markings are not allowed.