Every breed has a picture or video height color description and a link to the breed registry. Dun horses have a body color of various shades of yellow or gold sometimes with a tannish tint.

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Their mane and tail are usually black sometimes with other colors mixed in.

Horse colour descriptions. The term black points is used to describe a black mane and tail with black legs. There are only four basic horse colors. Body color brown or black with light areas at muzzle eyes flank and inside upper legs.

The term markings refers to the white areas on a horse usually on the face and legs. These two hair colors give three basic coat colors. Bay brown black and chestnut.

Dun horses always have a dorsal stripe. Terms in this set 22 brown. Bay which has both red and black hairs chestnut which is fully red and black which is fully black.

Bay left and chestnut right mustangs. They frequently have black lower legs or sometimes legs with horizontal stripes often called tiger or zebra stripes. Bay is the most common horse colour.

In this comprehensive list we feature 40 different horse breeds common in america. The two basic hair colors of horses are red a reddish brown color and black. Bay horses are brown with black mane tail and legs.

How many breeds on this list did you know about. Everything else is a variation on these four colors or the absence of color giving you white. Mane and tail black.