Basic Coat Colors
Major Coat Colors
Face Markings
Leg Markings
Side Vocab
100
Mixture of red and yellow, light ___ more yellow, dark ___ more red. Darkest is a mahogany ___without the red overtone. ___ always have black points.
What is a Bay
100
A golden color, varying from a bright copper color to light yellow, with white mane and tail. A true ______ has no dark hair, breed description lists the ideal color to be that of a "newly minted coin"
What is Palomino
100
Small, clearly defined area of white hairs on the forehead.
What is Star
100
A white strip covering the cornet band.
What is cornet
100
Mark of identification. A private registered mark burned on cheek, shoulder, or hip.
What is Brand
200
Basically red, mane and tail are normally the same shade as the body. If the mane and tail rare lighter in color than the cody the horse is termed a flax for flaxen ______. the mane and tail is never blackened its body varies from a bright yellowish red to a rich mahogany red.
What is Chestnut/ Sorrel
200
May vary from a pale yellow to a dirty canvas color with mane, tail, skin, and hooves grading from white to black. They may have a dorsal stripe down their back and barring on knees and hocks.
What is Dun/ Buckskin
200
Long narrow band of white working from the forehead down toward the muzzle.
What is Stripe
200
White extends from the cornet to and including the pastern.
What is Pastern
200
Dark stripe across the shoulders.
What is Cross
300
Its almost invariably has black hooves and skin. The points are also black. Tan or Brown airs on muzzle of flank indicates thats its not a true _____ but a seal brown.
What is Black
300
Its a Combonation of white and any other color, the markings can be any shape and size and located anywhere on the body. They come in a variety markings, but two specific coat patterns: over or tobiano.
What is Paint or Pinto
300
A wider stripe down the face.
What is blaze
300
White extends from the cornet to and including the fetlock.
What is Ankle
300
A few white hairs in center of the forehead.
What is flame
400
Its one with brown coloration. Many horses are mistakenly called black, because their so dark. A close examination of the hair on the muzzle and around the lips will quickly tell whether the horse is _____ or black. The mane and tail is always dark.
What is Brown
400
ITs foal may be a solid dark color or it may have a few white hairs mixed with hairs of a basic color. As the horse greys older more white hairs appear in the coat. As they age they can become almost a solid white.
What is Gray
400
Define Snip
What is a small patch of white which runs over the muzzle, often to the lips.
400
White extends from the cornet to and including the knee or hock.
What is Full Stocking
400
Thin and cut up in the flank like a greyhound.
What is Tucked Up
500
Define White
What is a horse that has snow-white hair, pink skin and brown eyes. The true white horse is born white and will die that same color. Very little, if any, seasonal change takes place in the coat color. Age dose not affect it.
500
Its coat carries white hairs intermingled with one or more base colors. They are born and die the same color. Weather the horse is a light or a dark ____ depends on the proportions of white hairs in comparison to the colored hairs. They are known in order of red, strawberry, or blue ____.
What is Roan
500
One which has white over most of the flat surface of the face, often including the eyes and the nostrils, or portions thereof.
What is Bald Face
500
White extends from the cornet to the middle cannon.
What is Half Stocking
500
Iris if the eye of a light color.
What is Walleyed
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