These Horses Are Most Magnificent Colors You Will Ever See
#1: The Cremello Akhal-Teke
This Ahkal-Teke horse makes the rounds on /r/pics periodically, so I thought I'd show you guys some of the other awesome colors horses can come in. This is cremello, a creme color base with blue eyes, but not albino or white. This is a result of the creme dilution gene, which has several variations.
#2: Pinto
Pinto is the combination of white and another solid color. The combinations very greatly. This is a black/white pinto.
#3: Dappled grey pinto
Polka dots, can you spot how many?
#4: Buckskin Pinto
White and brown, going buck wild in this place.
#5: Bay Brindle
Brindle is a coat coloring pattern in animals, particularly dogs, cattle, guinea pigs, crested geckos and, rarely, horses.
#6: Gray Brindle
It is sometimes described as "tiger striped", although the brindle pattern is more subtle than that of a tiger's coat.
#7: Red Road
Used to include both chestnut and bay roans. In 1999, the American Paint Horse Association changed its coat color descriptions: roans with a chestnut background coat are registered "red roan", while "bay roan" is its own category.
#8: Blue Roan
Is loosely applied to any roan with a dark underlying coat that gives it a bluish cast. But in the strictest sense, "blue roan" is a common synonym for a roan with a black background coat.
#9: Chocolate Flaxen
Dark and beautiful with the light hair.
#10: Classic Champagne
Champagne is a dilution gene, similar to creme. Classic champagne is black base diluted by the champagne.
#11: Gold Champagne
Chestnut base diluted by champagne gene.
#12: Perlino
A creme gene variation. Perlinos have a more reddish color, especially in the mane and tail.
#13: Leopard Spots
Commonly associated with Appaloosa horses, there are a couple breeds that are spotted, including the Danish Knabstrupper.
#14: Red rabicano
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.
#15: Sooty on Chestnut
Characterized by black or darker hairs mixed into a horse's coat, typically concentrated along the topline of the horse and less prevalent on the underparts. Sootiness is presumed to be heritable, though the precise genetic mechanism, or series of mechanisms, is not well-understood.
