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Wild Bay has short black "stockings" with another black patch on the knee. |
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Bright Bay or Red Bay is clear reddish brown, with black points.
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Mahogany Bay has the sooty effect gene, which has a lot of black coming down from the topline. (Reddish brown still shows clearly at shoulder, barrel, flank, and thigh. )
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Mealy Bay has a lighter shade of brown all the way to white on underside, muzzle and around eyes due to mealy effect gene.
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Bay Curly has kinky mane and tail, fetlock, and body coat especially in the winter. |
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Purple Roan |
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"Classic" Red Roan. |
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Bay Varnish Roan |
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A Bay with white blanket and extensive leopard spots from the leopard complex gene. |
Mealy Bay with Snowflakes from the leopard complex genes. |
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| A white roan pattern superimposed over Bay base color. The roan's head, and points will be darker which tells you this is not a greying horse. |
One of the most common leopard complex white roaning patterns called Varnish Roan. (Darker color on face, stifle, hip, and other bony areas.)
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| Bay Rabicano white tailhead. |
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| Bay Sabino. Sabino white pattern always has tall white socks, bald face, and belly white. (Typical Clydesdale color.) Horse on far right is a Bay SabinoSnowflake. |
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Bay Sabino foal with maximum "speckled" pattern. Bald face, white on legs and belly extending upward onto barrel. |
Bay Rabicano (also called "white ticking.") Roaning pattern only on flanks, barrel, rump and tailhead. |
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Mahogany BayTobiano
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Bay Tobiano. White pinto pattern over Bay horse. (Black mane, tail and legs partially visible.) A Tobiano white pattern has white crossing the topline, white legs, and a mostly dark head.
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| Purple Roan Tobiano. Under the white pattern is a roaned mahogany bay. |
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| Bay Splashed White. Bay horse with white pattern of white legs, mostly white head, and body "splashed" white from underneath. |
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Bay Overo has white pattern that does not cross the topline, dark legs, and mostly white head.
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| Bay Frame Overo Sabino has the frame white head and ventral body white, plus tall white sabino stockings. |
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Buckskin is a bay horse diluted to a yellow body coat. Silvery Buckskin on far right is the palest buckskin dilute. |
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| Sooty Buckskin has extra black in the body coat, producing dapples. (The horse on right also has the leopard complex gene adding white "snowflakes.") |
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Red Silver is a bay horse with the silver dapple gene which gives it white mane and tail, dapples and darker shade on legs. |
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Sooty Buckskin Overo.
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Yellow Silver is a rare color--a buckskin with the silver dapple gene.
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Zebra Dun is Bay with the dun factor genes diluting brown to yellow, and adding primitive stripes down back and on legs. (Nose bridge darkness and bicolored mane and tail are common in zebra duns.)
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Zebra Dun Frosty has a white roaning pattern over the spine, withers, shoulders and on the face producing dappling.
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Zebra Dun Tobiano. Tobiano white pattern over a zebra dun base coat.
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