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Bay roan (sometimes called "red roan") A "blue roan", roaning over a black base coat Red roan, roaning over chestnut, sometimes called "strawberry roan" 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 the classic or true roan pattern may be any base color which is intermingled with unpigmented white hairs on the body. Except for white markings under the control of other genes, the head, mane, tail, and lower legs are dark. [2] Roan is a simple dominant trait symbolized by the Rn allele. [3]
Steel Grey/Iron Grey: A grey horse with intermingled black and white hairs. This color occurs in a horse born black, or in some cases, dark bay, and slowly lightens as the horse ages. Rose Grey: A grey horse with a reddish or pinkish tinge to its coat. This color occurs in a horse born bay or chestnut and slowly lightens as the horse ages.
Red roan American Quarter Horse; sometimes referred to as a bay roan. French Cheval de race Quarter Horse à la robe bai rouan (rouan), portant des corn marks, petites zones non-rouannées.
[6] [7] [8] The horses weigh 700 to 800 pounds (320 to 360 kg) on the range, and more if raised in captivity. [8] They exhibit a wide range of solid colors, including bay, black, chestnut, dun, grullo, and blue or red roan. [6] [9] Buckskin coloring is rare but does occur, and pinto coloring can be minimally expressed. [9]
The roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) is a large, savanna-dwelling antelope found in Western, Southern, and parts of Central and Eastern Africa. [3] Named for its roan colour (a slightly reddish, sandy-brown), it has a lighter-toned underbelly and a (mostly) white face and snout, but with a black "mask" around the eyes and on the bridge of the snout, being somewhat lighter in females.
Roan (color), a type of animal coat color that shows intermixed white and darker-colored hairs; Roan (horse), a horse coat color pattern; Varnish roan, a leopard-complex horse coat color that looks similar to roan; Roan antelope, an African savanna antelope; Roan Allen (1904–1930), one of the founding sires of the Tennessee Walking Horse
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