Colors
Body color is true black; Mane and tail are black
What is black?
What is the color of a horse that has individual white and black hairs mixed in? Usually darker on head.
What is a blue roan?
White spot between the eyes.
What is a star?
White marking extending around the leg, halfway up cannon bone.
What is a sock?
Species name for horse.
What is equine?
Pink skin, hair coat is white.
What is white?
Body color is golden yellow; mane and tail are flaxen.
What is a Palomino?
White spot between the nostrils.
What is a snip?
Full marking to the area of the knee. Extended sock.
What is a stocking?
Secretariat. Justify. American Pharaoh. (breed)
What is a Thoroughbred?
Body color dark red or brownish-red; mane and tail usually dark red. Usually used to describe Thoroughbreds.
What is Chestnut?
Body color yellow or gold or tan; mane and tail are black; no dorsal stripe.
What is a Buckskin?
Narrow marking extending vertically in the area between the forehead and the nostrils?
What is a strip?
White marking just above coronary band.
What is a coronet?
Horse measurement.
What is a hand?
Body color is yellowish/gold; mane and tail are black. Dorsal stripe. May have zebra pattern on legs.
What is a dun?
Light or pink skin over the body; white or cream-colored hair and blue eyes.
What is a Cremello?
Vertical marking of medium, uniform width extending the length of the face.
What is a blaze?
Marking includes coronet and part of pastern.
What is a half pastern?
Soft, squishy part of a horse hoof.
What is the frog?
Body color is smoky or mouse-colored (not a mixture of black and white hairs). Mane and tail are black. Black dorsal stripe and black on lower legs.
What is Grullo?
Dark color usually covers one or both flanks. Generally all four legs are white. Oval-shaped spots. Tail is two colors.
What is a Tobiano?
Very broad blaze. Can extend out and around the eyes.
What is a bald face?
Markings that are sometimes present on a dun. (legs)
What are zebra stripes?
Snaffle, curb, Tom-thumb, full-cheek...
What are types of bits?