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The points of a bay are black, while those of a silver bay (shown here) are silver. Gray: While gray horses grow progressively lighter, silver dapples often darken with age. A silver dapple masked by gray (i.e. carries both genes and, because gray is a dominant gene, becomes white with age) may be identified by use of DNA testing.
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 Comtois sometimes shows a tendency towards sickle hocks. These horses are generally bay silver, but they can also be black silver, bay, black, and chestnut. They usually stand 1.50–1.65 metres (14.3–16.1 hands) high and weigh 650–800 kg (1,430–1,760 lb). [2]
A bay horse, showing black points. The word "points" is given to the mane, tail, lower legs, and ear rims with respect to horse coloration. The overall name given to a horse coat color depends on the color of both the points and the body. For example, bay horses have a reddish-brown body with black points. [3]
AA or Aa horse is bay, black hair shows only in points pattern (usually mane, tail, legs, sometimes tips of ears). aa: If horse has E allele, then horse will be uniformly black. MATP (Cream, Pearl) [5] Cr prl n: Cr/Cr: Horse is a double dilute cream (cremello, perlino, or smoky cream) and will have creamy off-white hair with pale eyes and skin.
Silver buckskin: bay-based coat with one cream allele and at least one silver dapple allele. The effect varies, as silver dapple does not act on red coats, but the buckskin's golden tone is somewhat lost. Silver smoky black: black-based coat with one cream allele and at least one silver allele. The effect varies from chestnut-like to silver ...
Champagne horses with the silver gene will retain their champagne skin and eye traits, but the black pigment will be further diluted. [22] Silvers vary tremendously in shade and so defining a "typical" example is difficult. Amber silver refers to an otherwise-bay coat affected by both the champagne gene and silver gene. [23]
Xena's horse Argo was portrayed by a palomino mare named Tilly. In today's horse breeding the palomino color can be created by crossing a chestnut with a cremello. [2] Palomino is a Spanish word meaning juvenile pigeon (the diminutive of paloma, pigeon) and its equine usage refers to the color of such birds. [3] [4]