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Colours of a Quarter Horse |
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Bay Roan |
Blue Roan |
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Body colour ranging from tan, through red, to reddish brown, mane & tail black, usually black on the lower legs.
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More or less a uniform mixture of white and black hairs on the body, but usually darker on the head and lower legs, can have a few red hairs in the mix.
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More or less a uniform mixture of white and black hairs on the body, but usually darker on the head and lower legs, can have a few red hairs in the mix.
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| Brown |
Buckskin |
Chestnut |
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Body colour brown or black with light areas around the muzzle and eyes, flank, inside upper legs, mane, tail and points are black.
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Body colour yellowish or gold, mane and tail black, usually black on the lower legs. Buckskins do not have dorsal stripes.
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Body colour dark red or brownish-red, mane & tail usually dark red or brownish-red, but may be flaxen also.
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| Dun |
Grey |
Grullo |
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Body colour yellowish or gold, mane & tail may be black, brown or mixed, usually has a dorsal stripe, can have zebra stripes on legs, and a transverse stripe over withers.
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Mixture of white with any other coloured hairs, often born a solid colour or almost solid coloured and getting lighter with age as more white hairs appear.
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Body colour smokey or mouse-coloured (not a mixture or black & white hairs, but each hair mouse-coloured), mane & tail black, usually black on the lower legs, usually has dorsal stripe
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Palomino
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Perlino
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Red Roan
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| Body colour a golden yellow, with white mane & tail. Palominos do not have a dorsal stripes. |
Almost white with mane and tail appearing a little darker and having a light copper or orange hue with the lower legs having similar colouration |
More or less uniform mixture of white with red hairs on the body, but usually darker on the head and lower legs, can a have red, black or flaxen mane and/or tail.
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