Buckskin: Body colour yellowish or gold; mane and tail
black; usually black on lower legs. Buckskins do not
have a dorsal stripe.
Chestnut: Body colour reddish or copper red; mane and
tail usually same colour as body but may be flaxen.
Cremello: Light (or pink) skin over the body, white or
cream-coloured hair and blue eyes.
Dun: Body colour yellowish or gold; mane and tail are
black or brown, has dorsal stripe, zebra stripes on
legs and transverse stripes on withers.
Grey: Mixture of white with any other coloured hairs; often
born solid-coloured or almost solid-coloured and get
lighter with age as more white hairs appear.
Grulla: Body colour smoky or mouse-coloured (not a
mixture of black and white but with each hair
mouse-coloured); mane and tail black; usually black
on lower legs; has dorsal stripe.
Liver Chestnut: Body colour dark red or reddish-brown;
mane and tail usually same colour as body but may
be flaxen.
Palomino: Body colour golden yellow; mane and tail white.
Palominos do not have dorsal stripes.
Perlino: Light (or pink) skin over the body, white or creamcoloured hair and blue eyes. Mane, tail and lower
legs slightly darker than body.
Red Dun: A form of dun with body colour yellowish or flesh
coloured, tail and dorsal stripe usually are red.
Mane and tail maybe flaxen white or mixed.
Taffy: Body colour varies from golden brown, reddish
brown or dark chocolate brown with legs dark liver
brown and flaxen mane and tail.
b) MARKINGS:
Star: Any marking on the forehead.
Strip: A narrow marking extending vertically in the area
between the forehead and the nostrils.
Snip: Any marking between the two nostrils.
Star and Strip: A marking on the forehead with a strip to
the nasal peak. The strip does not have to be an
extension of the star.
Star, Strip and Snip: A marking on the forehead with a
narrow
extension to the nasal peak and
opening up again between the nostrils. These may
be connected.
Bald Face: A very broad blaze. It can extend out and
around the eyes and it can extend down to the
upper lip and around the nostrils.
Blaze: A vertical marking of medium, uniform width
extending the length of the face.
Coronet: Any narrow marking around the coronet above
the hoof.
Half Pastern: A marking which includes only half the
pastern above the coronet.
Full Pastern: A marking which includes the entire pastern.
Half Cannon: A marking which extends around the leg from
the coronet halfway up the cannon bone, or halfway
to the knee on the foreleg or halfway to the hock on
the back leg.
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