Bay (horse)
A bay horse is a horse who is reddish brown with black points (legs, mane and tail).[1] Bay horses can be light or dark brown.[1] Sometimes their black points are covered by white markings (spots).
Bay horses have dark skin. However, if they have white markings, they have pink skin under them.
Very dark bay horses might look black, but the hair around their eyes is lighter than true black horses' hair.
The shades with the least amount of colour are called wild bays. Wild bays have full reddish coat colors. They also have black manes and tails. The black points only go up to a part of a horse's foot or the horse's joint. Wild bay sometimes have a trait called "pangare". Horses with pangare have a pale color under their belly and soft places.[2]
Bay (horse) Media
- RAS NSW Mounted Police muster.jpg
The horses of the New South Wales Mounted Police show some of the typical variations in the bay color.
- Gelderländer trabend.jpg
A partially body-clipped horse, showing the two-toned red hair shaft.
This foal was born bay but is starting to turn gray
- Poulain de race ardennaise 1.jpg
Bay foals, like this one, sometimes have pale hairs on their legs and in their mane and tail until they shed their foal coats
- Countershading stripe.jpg
Some bay horses have a faint dorsal stripe, which may be caused by the non-dun 1 allele.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "APPUNTI per l'esame del I Grado" (PDF). Federazione Italiana Sport Equestri (in italiano). 2023. p. 2. Archived from the original on 2024-11-06. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ↑ Sponenberg, Dan Phillip (2003). Equine Color Genetics 2e. Blackwell. ISBN 0-8138-0759-X.
Other websites
- 16x16px Media related to Bay (horse) at Wikimedia Commons
