Looks like a freshly clipped bay to me. You can see the slightly more mahogany color on his face, he’ll lose that mousy brown color as his coat grows back in. My late TB was a beautiful mahogany reddish brown with a new spring (before bleaching) or fall (before clipping) coat. He lived out, so he had a surfer-dude bleached blonde forelock. When he was clipped, it was a similar almost grulla-looking grey-brown until he got some coat grown back. Overlapping full, trace, and blanket clips led to some interesting coat patterns through the winter.
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I have 4 bay horses and one honey bay.
Bay #1 OTTB - rich bay summer coat, dark bay winter coat, clipped coat identical to summer coat
Bay #2 pony - same rich bay summer/winter coat, greige (grey/beige) when clipped. Knees go from black (summer) to brown (winter)
Bay #3 Holsteiner - rich bay summer coat, rich bay winter coat, beige clipped coat, brown in mane/forelock tail all year round
Bay #4 Oldenburg - rich bay summer coat, rich bay winter coat, light GREY with black spots when clipped. The only brown on her is on her nose and tiny bit of yellow around her flanks
Honey bay goes greige with yellow highlights on her flanks and nose when she’s clipped. Also, the black on her legs virtually disappears in the winter. She has four white socks, and while I’m sure the black ‘would’ linger on the bottom of her legs, it disappears above the white.
If I tried to tell their colors when clipped, the only one I’d get right is my TB!
So I agree, horse in OP is bay.
Maybe the OP was imagining something a little more exotic but I agree with the consensus. It’s a bay. Very cute and a nice type. But still bay.
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He’s bay, his nose tells the story. Whatever his shade is I think his genetics are bay.
At was shown to be a false test.
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Dark bay looks like he’s been clipped.
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