Chocolate Palominos or Liver Chestnuts with flaxen manes and tails.

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Just wondering if anyone has one and if so please can I see your pictures.
I remember a beautiful stallion who used to appear regularly at shows in Surrey during the late 1980's early 1990's but I never see any these days.
 
I have to say Liver chestnut is one of my favourite colours on a horse. A friend and neighbour many years ago had a Royal Welsh champion Section D mare, she was out of the same stallion as our stallion (Brenin Dafydd), she was a stunning liver chestnut and I always adored the colour since. So I am looking forward to seeing pictures of liver chestnuts :D
 
Section C, Cariad as a yearling, Liver Chestnut with Flaxen Mane & Tail
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Silver bay is a different colour from liver chestnut. They are similar and have often been misidentified.

The silver gene modifies bays or blacks but doesn't exhibit on chestnuts so it can hide for generations.
 
Frank isn't proper liver/flaxen sometimes he looks plain chestnut though has blonde highlights. autumn/spring he is dark

May
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September

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eta not me riding in the second one I had a bust arm and I definitely never look that good on him!
 
Does anyone else have a 'reverse' flaxen chestnut? Mine is a wishy washy ginger but with a dark (almost black) mane and tail, he is a wb but I have never seen anything with a similar colour.

Sorry, off topic (as usual) :)
 
s4sugar said:
Silver bay is a different colour from liver chestnut. They are similar and have often been misidentified.

The silver gene modifies bays or blacks but doesn't exhibit on chestnuts so it can hide for generations.
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Quite correct!!

Inky is a black horse that carries silver thus he appears dapple grey. Many confuse silver with flaxen.

Black horse carrying silver...

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Bay horse carrying silver ( i have permission to post as this wonderful horse belongs to a friend :) )

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Stinkbomb, seeing that photo of the silver bay makes me think that Glory (in signature) is not a silver bay at all. He's definitely chestnut/red based, with chestnut points, no black on him at all, I am still leaning towards liver chestnut but in his foal fuzz, and now winter yakkiness it is hard to tell. Will have to wait until summer to see. Out of interest he is out of a palomino mare by a chestnut paint, no other clue as to his breeding - backyard stuff at its very best.

Who cares, he'll never be a stallion and is very pretty so knowing his colour is only a matter of interest, I won't be getting him tested. I do have first refusal on his unborn full sibling though ;)

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This is a chocolate palomino stallion. (AQHA. Affirmation)
From: http://www.ultimatehorsesite.com/colors/palomino.html
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rhino said:
Does anyone else have a 'reverse' flaxen chestnut? Mine is a wishy washy ginger but with a dark (almost black) mane and tail, he is a wb but I have never seen anything with a similar colour.

Sorry, off topic (as usual) :)
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My old Morgan was this, a rich chestnut with almost black mane and tail, sorry no pics on computer.
 
This was our mare, Patsy, with me when I was 16/17... not liver chestnut, but the most amazing flaxen mane and tail.... Think it was taken up near Bradgate Park at a Quorn PC ODE. Have to smile at the furious concentration on my face :o
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We had one my aunt bred and I would call him a pal because he only went liver in the summer (he looked stunning), he was cream in the winter. His mother was a pal, 1/2 arab, 1/4 welsh 1/4 TB, sire was a liver welsh B. Sorry no pics, he was sold twenty years ago!
 
this is my old boy:
i have been told he is a palomino with the sooty gene so darker than a true golden pally and with a silver mane and tail rather than pure white.





 
my favourite colour :)
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(yes i know he was fat, but being about 7 when they picture was taken i didnt really have a lot of say, hes slim jim now ;))
 
Hi Rhino,

My part-welsh girl is ginger biscuit coloured/teak so definitely not a liver chestnut, but when I bought her she had a distinctly black mane and tail to the extent that the vet wrote up her ID certificate as a bay. Her mane is now pretty much the same colour as her body, but her tail remains largely black, but if you lift it up there is plenty of blond and silver hair underneath. She can't seem to decide what colour she wants to be, her summer and winter coats are quite different, she goes dappled in the summer and for a while had a dorsal stripe but that has gone now. Oh yes, and she has a few white spots but one summer she sprouted 4 or 5 more in one go. I think this particular shade of chestnut is a Welsh special.
 
I'm not sure what colour my young stallion is really? Not for sure anyway...

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His tail looks in the pic to be growing through dark, when infact close up, it's still growing in a mix of brown & cream?! He doesn't have a black hair on his body, and in some light, his legs are quite red!
 
no pics to add as normally my sis does them :) but if you look at my sig my boy is what we call a traditional palamino and is wicked in the summer when he has golden highlights coming through
 
Wow! Star and Misterjay - they are exactly the colours I'm talking about, they are both lovely horses. There just don't seem to be many horses that colour around these days, I'm sure there were more when I was younger LOL!
 
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