Red Chestnut has red body, mane and tail. Flaxen Chestnut has red body, and yellowish mane and tail.
Flaxen Chestnut Curly has kinky mane and tail, fetlock hair (and body coat in winter.)
Sorrel is a chestnut with the mealy effect gene, which produces a much lighter (from golden all the way to white shade) on the underbelly, flanks, lower legs, and muzzle. (Typical Belgian drafthorse color.)
Flaxen Chestnut horse with a lot of black in the tail (which does not change its body color. )
Red Chestnut Rabicano. White roaning only over the base of tail, flanks and ribcage.
The Classic Strawberry Roan is a chestnut horse that has a white roaning pattern on its body (leaving a darker red head, mane, tail and legs.) Chestnut Varnish Roan (horse on left) has a white pattern produced by the leopard complex genes leaving dark areas on bony spots such as face, hips, shoulder, withers. Chestnut Snowflake (middle) also produced by leopard complex scatters white spots on body. Chestnut with White Blanket and Leopard Spots.
Liver Chestnut has black in the body coat from the sooty gene. The lower legs will always have light brown streaks. (The horse on left has "snowflakes"from the leopard complex genes, and a flaxen mane and tail.)
Chestnut Sabino (sabino means "pale red" in Spanish) is a white pattern of tall white stockings, a bald face, and white on the belly. The maximum expression of sabino have bald faces, white legs which extend up onto the belly and barrel in a speckled pattern.
Medicine Hat Tobiano (on left ) has color on ears/head, chest, flank and rump. American Indians believe they were protected in colored areas during battle.

Horse on right is a Strawberry Roan Tobiano Sabino. She has a darker head than body, a white chin, a roaned body, white legs, white crossing her topline, and a speckled pattern of white extending up from legs onto barrel. Her tail is bicolored.

Chestnut Tobiano has a white pattern that crosses the topline, has white legs, and a mostly dark head, with dark eyes. The two Chestnut Tobianos horse on the right have "pawprints" or "ink spots"inside their white patches.
Chestnut Splashed White have white legs, white heads, and white markings up from the underside, as if splashed upwards with white paint. Blue eyes are always present.
Chestnut Tovero a cross between Tobiano and Overo. It has a white face, white patches that cross the topline, and white legs.
Chestnut Frame Overo is a chestnut horse with a white pattern that usually not cross the topline, dark legs and a mostly white head. Blue eyes are very common.
Palomino Tobiano has white legs, dark face and white crossingthe topline.
Sooty Palomino contains has black in the body coat producing dapples, (and sometimes more black in mane and tail --horse on right.)
A Palomino is a chestnut with dilute gene which lightens red to yellow. The mane and tail are lightened to yellowish-white. Reverse Dapples (light spots, on third horse from left) occur from white in body coat.
Ivory Champagne is a rare color; the result of the champagne gene on a chestnut horse. The skin is pink or beige and the eyes will be greenish-amber, and the body coat has a bright sheen.
Cremello is Chestnut with a double dose of the dilute gene. They will always have blue eyes, pink skin, and nearly white body and points.
Red Dun is a Chestnut horse with the dun factor gene, which gives it striping including dorsal stripe, stripes on legs and dark red "webbing" on shoulders.
Red Dun Frame Overo Sabino has a white pattern that does not cross the topline, but tall sabino white stockings, and sabino white chin, and extensive white on head.

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