another what colour !

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Hoping karynk can help! (purlease??!!)
Anyone know what colour this is?
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At first i thought chestnut but he is more fawn coloured! with highlights! Only he isnt typical flaxen, he has black, brown and blonde in his mane and tail.
His owner would really like to know!
thanks in advance
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I would say chestnut, but a friend has a horse that colour and she INSISTS that he is a chocolate palomino!

His mane does look kind of flaxen. I am completely lost nowadays, all the colours that I learned as a child have all been tipped 'a over t' , progress.
 
Yes a very dark chestnut with flaxen, but not full on flaxen, very striking!!

The way to count out Bay/Brown is the lack of black on the extremities, thats the way to do it with leopard appaloosas, if the spots on their ears are not black then you probably have a chestnut.

What intrigues me is the presence of black like hairs in the mane and tail of a lot of chestnuts. It shouldn't be black yet it looks that way, It would be interesting to look at the hairs in a lab to see, which could open more possibilities !!

The shades of chestnut are phenomenal and if you start to really look closely at them no two are the same, try it when you are next at a show and see if you can find two the same!

You go from the almost black what I would call true liver (like Denman) through to a very pale yellowish with almost tan parts like a Haflinger, turn that coat to brown and you would almost have an Exmoor! I think that Jeanette Gower is looking into chestnut coat shade inheritance but it may take even her a while to figure that one out, I think there are a whole load of accessory genes that determine that one!

The clue with dark palomino’s is that the cream will turn the mane and tail white rather than blonde, bit tlike this http://www.doubledilute.com/images/chocpalomorgan.jpg
but take the NF Pony and their breed society is convinced that pale chestnuts with light manes and tails are responsible for palomino’s and stallions of this colour are banned from the forest, yet they have loads of buckskins out there and are still “surprised” when they get a double dilute, mainly because they don’t recognise that there is a difference between cream and dun genes. Flaxen itself can take many forms too, like here it allows darker bits in the mane and tail, some only have a flaxen tail, some only really the mane and some are really blonde.
 
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