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Equine coat colors and marking
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 2
04/15/2009

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Gray
Definition
Black skin with white hair, coat lightens with age. Notice the black around the eyes and muzzle
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Dapple Gray
Definition
Dapple gray consist of a dark hair coat with "dapples" which are dark rings with lighter hair on the inside of the ring, scatter over the entire body of the animal.
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Flea bitten Gray
Definition
gray coat with white mane ad tail.(looks like the horse is covered with fleas
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snowflake gray
Definition
Very distinct pointed dapples...looks like a snowflake
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Palomino
Definition
gold coat with white mane and tail
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Bay
Definition
Red-brown to dark brown or gold, wiht  black main, tail, and legs
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Chestnut/sorrel
Definition
Reddish, gold shade. Mane and tail have various shdes of chestnut
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Buckskin
Definition
Yellowish-gold body with black main, tail, and legs
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Dun
Definition
Yellowish or tan coat with "dun factor:" a darker-colored main and tail,a dorsal stripe along the back and occasionlly faint horizontal zebra striping on the upper  legs and a possible transverse stripe across the withers 
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Grullo (Grulla-female)
Definition
Smokey gray colored body, dark dorsal stripe
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Blue Roan
Definition
Black or black/brown body with white hairs giving a bluish tinge
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Red Roan (Strawberry Roan)
Definition
Bay or Bay-brown body with white hairs, giving a reddish tinge
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Piebald (type of Paint)
Definition
Large irregular pattern of black and white
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Ovaro
Definition
Solid color caat with irregular splashes of white. specific to apint or pinto breed
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Tobiano
Definition
White base coat with irregular patches of solid color. Specific to paint or pinto breed
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Leopard
Definition
White base with dark spots all over body of horse
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Blanket
Definition
White over hips, with ot without dark spots - seen on apploosa's
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Frost
Definition
White speckles on dark background -seen on Appalossa's
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Marble
Definition
Red or blue roaning with dak coloring on edges - seen on Appaloosa's
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Dorsal or eel stripe
Definition
band across withers and extending down the tail. Almost always found with a dun coat, there will sometimes be zebra striping on the legs as well.
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