I had a good idea, but a lot of what I learned 20+ years ago was horribly outdated, but joining a couple of equine colour groups on facebook has taught me so much, including Etalon is not a company to have any sort of testing (colour or genetic) done at. 
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How’d your filly do?
yes, sire black. Dam is covered all over with white hairs. About 1/4 of her coat is gray hairs interspersed with the brown. Also, she’s curly coated if that makes any difference. (sorry for my ignorance…i really do know nothing)
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Our filly had her first life time win, and our mare was second in her race. Thank for asking. 
Thanks for the refresher on the parents. I wouldn’t call the dam roan personally. It’s not uncommon for a horse with a white pattern like that to have a lot of white hairs disbursed though their coat. Your filly looks to have the same pattern as mom.
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Congratulations on your wins 
ok, so i can call her a bay on Coggins forms, etc?
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Bay is perfect. The white markings will speak for themselves. I don’t think she has enough white hairs through her coat that roan would be a required description on a coggins or anything else.
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This is some heavy Sabino (likely) ticking. I actually wondered if the filly was going gray, despite no grey around her eyes, but I saw her normal baby bay legs and knew it wasn’t gray.
I have a “seal brown” (just the darkest shade of bay, looks VERY black) who has the tiniest spot of white on one hind heel, and who sheds in the Spring with a LOT of white ticking in his coat, but then those hairs disappear, so weird.
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could you show a photo of your seal brown *in his sealbrown phase of the year please? I don’t think i know ‘seal’. Brown i get lol.
Barring mid-Summer bleaching, he’s always this dark. This was in October of one year, so full Winter color in, if not as furry, and his new Summer coat is this dark just slick (obviously). He looks black, barring the brown around his muzzle and flank area, and the horse head behind him IS black, for a bit of comparison. I’ll dig a big for a butt shot I have of the 2 of them to see how his “black” really isn’t black when compared to an actual black
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so would this boy (now deceased) have been seal brown? Breeder called him ‘dark bay’
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Yep, seal brown, dark bay, black bay, all the same. They’re all bay, which has a huge range of shade from pretty darn light, to looking like they’re black.
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I had a Standardbred that was called blood bay, his papers just said bay though. But his coat was a dark, rich reddish brown in the summer and almost black in the winter.
