So.....what colour is this horse?

[SquishTheBunny]

He will be RPSI and American Warmblood. I dont think they have colour biases, but if I register him part APHA they may. I might just go the RPSI and AW though.

After browsing lots of pictures, I agree he looks more smokey brown than buckskin. His baby coat was SOOO light, but I guess that can happen with a smokey brown? Sire looks like a “brown” horse to me…very dark bay.

I think Animal Genetics does coat color testing now, they dont have “smokey brown” as a colour, but could eliminate buckskin or bay I suppose: http://www.horsetesting.com/

[Burbank]

regardless of his color he is adorable!

[Equsrider]

Had a friend who had a TB, 30 years ago, that color.It was called seal brown. Is that even a color anymore? It was pretty rare back then as far as I knew, and I still don’t see too many of them today…He is Beautiful!!

[spacely]

@SquishTheBunny;5249305

He will be RPSI and American Warmblood.

You can only have 1 set of registration papers so you need to pick. Your best bet is RPSI.

[TrueColours]

Rule out APHA. Unless he is AQHA, APHA or TB - they wont accept him. There is no “part” APHA registry - only Regular (for those that qualify - marking wise) and Breeding Stock (for those that dont)

And PetDNA in AZ is the only one doing the Brown Test if you did want to know for sure if he was smoky brown

[Donkaloosa]

A very smutty buckskin. Cute, and I love Mom, too.

[JB]

@SquishTheBunny;5249305

I think Animal Genetics does coat color testing now, they dont have “smokey brown” as a colour, but could eliminate buckskin or bay I suppose: http://www.horsetesting.com/

There’s no doubt cream is at play. The only option is buckskin or smoky brown. It’s clear to me, but to make it official, the brown test at Pet DNA would clear things up. That’s all you need. You know he’s black-based, you know cream is there

[JB]

@Equsrider;5249347

Had a friend who had a TB, 30 years ago, that color.It was called seal brown. Is that even a color anymore? It was pretty rare back then as far as I knew, and I still don’t see too many of them today…He is Beautiful!!

Yes, many TBs are listed as brown.

Seal brown is designated for the dark ones, the “black bay”

[Thomas_1]

[QUOTE=Thomas_1;5245453]
If he were in the UK then life would be VERY easy for you. He’d be dun.

However I’ve had American friends here who’ve told me that mine is an “extremely sooty buckskin” [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=coloredcowhorse;5246541]
Does “dun” in the UK not require that they have dun markings? IE…dorsal stripe, leg barring, ear tips/stripes, facial masking, shoulder bar or shadow? [/QUOTE] No. We just don’t “do” all those colour descriptors here. Here “Dun” is how you’d describe anything that’s got any shade of gold with a black mane and tail.

Likewise we don’t call anything “brown”. If it’s got a black mane and tail and is any colour of brown from bright bright copper brown to dark brown then it’s “bay”. You just ‘might’ say bright bay or dark bay if you were going to try to go all “fancy” and folks would be likely to reply with “Get you”

I do know that my “weirdly smutty dunny buckaroo” has a dun mother and a knabstrubber father.

[goeslikestink]

[QUOTE=Thomas_1;5251755]
[COLOR=“SlateGray”]
No. We just don’t “do” all those colour descriptors here. Here “Dun” is how you’d describe anything that’s got any shade of gold with a black mane and tail.

Likewise we don’t call anything “brown”. If it’s got a black mane and tail and is any colour of brown from bright bright copper brown to dark brown then it’s “bay”. You just ‘might’ say bright bay or dark bay if you were going to try to go all “fancy” and folks would be likely to reply with “Get you”

I do know that my “weirdly smutty dunny buckaroo” has a dun mother and a knabstrubber father.[/QUOTE]

haha so true here in uk, bonnie is very dark bay but looks black her mum was dun and her dad was a strawberry roan lol

[coloredcowhorse]

[QUOTE=Thomas_1;5251755]
[COLOR=“SlateGray”]
No. We just don’t “do” all those colour descriptors here. Here “Dun” is how you’d describe anything that’s got any shade of gold with a black mane and tail.

Ah…good to know…this way I won’t be likely to get into color discussions of “but he’s obviously a brown based dunskin” or other such fun!!

For some reason pedigrees and color genetics seem to be the two areas that I am just fascinated by…and sometimes get almost obsessive about.