Bay Pearl
Bay pearl is a bay base that has been lightened by two copies of the pearl alleles. The result is a soft apricot or light tan coat, with darker points on the mane, tail and lower legs.
Chestnut Pearl
Chestnut Pearl is a chestnut coat lightened by two pearl-alleles. The result is a golden apricot or creamy copper-ish colour. The coat, mane and tail are usually quite similar in shade, giving the horse a warm and even appearance.
Smoky Black
Smoky Black is a black-based coat with one copy of the cream gene. The coat often looks the same as a regular black horse, which makes smoky black very hard to identify by appearance alone.
Smoky Cream
Smoky Cream is a black-based coat with two copies of the cream-allele. Like cremello and perlino, smoky cream horses have a very pale cream coat, pink skin, and light blue eyes. They are also called: double cream horses.
Perlino
Perlino is a bay-based coat with two copies of the cream gene. This results in a very pale cream coat, similar to cremello, but the mane and tail are often slightly darker with a warm beige or golden tint. Horses with two cream copies are often called double cream horses.
Cremello
Cremello is a chestnut-based coat with two copies of the cream gene. This creates a very pale cream coat, often paired with pink skin and light blue eyes. Horses with two cream copies are often called double cream horses.
Buckskin
Buckskin is a bay-based coat that is lightened to a tan or golden colour. The horse keeps its black mane, tail and legs, which makes buckskin easy to recognise.
Palomino
Palomino is a chestnut-based coat lightened by one copy of the cream gene.
Pangaré
Pangaré (also called mealy) is a trait that lightens the softer areas of a horse’s coat. It appears on chestnut and bay-based horses and gives them a softer, lighter look around certain parts of the body.
Sooty
Sooty is a trait that darkens a horse’s coat. It can appear in many different ways, often making the horse look as if darker hairs have been brushed across parts of the body.
Flaxen
Flaxen is a trait that lightens the mane and tail of chestnut-based horses, turning them a pale yellow, cream or even nearly white colour.
Grey
Grey is a modifier that affects a horse’s coat colour over time. A grey horse is born with its original colour (like bay, black or chestnut), but gradually becomes lighter as it ages.