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Roan is a horse coat color pattern characterized by an even mixture of colored and white hairs on the body, while the head and "points"—lower legs, mane, and tail—are mostly solid-colored. Horses with roan coats have white hairs evenly intermingled throughout any other color.
Roan is a coat color found in many animals, including horses, cattle, antelope, cats and dogs. It is defined generally as an even mixture of white and pigmented hairs that do not "gray out" or fade as the animal ages. [1] There are a variety of genetic conditions which produce the colors described as "roan" in various species.
A gray horse can be born any color, but as it gets older some hairs turn white. Most will eventually develop a complete white or a "fleabitten" coat, which retains speckles of the horse's original color. Grays are sometimes confused with certain roan, dun, or white coat colors.
Varnish roan describes a horse with coloration similar to roan, but with some changes in color over the years, though not to the extreme of a gray. This type of roaning only occurs in conjunction with the Leopard complex. Varnish roans are born with a dark base coat color, usually with some spotting. As the horse ages, white hairs increase over ...
Bay (horse) Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish-brown or brown body color with a black point coloration on the mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs. Bay is one of the most common coat colors in many horse breeds. The black areas of a bay horse's hair coat are called "black points", and without them, a horse is not a ...
A horse with classic sabino belly spots, white above its knees and hocks, a white chin and wide white facial markings. A sabino horse with extensive roaning. Sabino describes a distinct pattern of white spotting in horses. In general, Sabino patterning is visually recognized by roaning or irregular edges of white markings, belly spots, white ...
The Strawberry Roan or Strawberry Roan may refer to: Red or “strawberry” roan, a horse coat color. Strawberry Roan (1933 film), an American western film. Strawberry Roan, a 1932 novel by A. G. Street. Strawberry Roan (1945 film), a British drama based on the novel. The Strawberry Roan, a 1948 American western film. The Strawberry Roan (song ...
An extensively expressed rabicano Arabian horse.. Rabicano, sometimes called white ticking, is a horse coat color characterized by limited roaning in a specific pattern: its most minimal form is expressed by white hairs at the top of a horse's tail, [1] often is expressed by additional interspersed white hairs seen first at the flank, then other parts of the body radiating out from the flank ...