Colour/Genetics People... what colour is he?

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Now, I've always thought this little chap is bay, albeit a slightly weird one, but lately I've been wondering if there's more to it.

He is a coppery brown, with a reddish shade in winter and yellowish in summer. He has blackish grey legs, a very black tail, but a black/chestnut/cream streaked mane. He's got a bit of a mealy nose and a very faint dorsal stripe. Breedwise, I've been told he's a Welsh D x Hackney (not 100% certain but he is a ride and drive and looks like others of this breed that I've googled!).

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Colour in March, shows streaky mane quite well

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Summer colour (apologies for the rein scenario, unfortunately even at 22 years and at the end of a 13 mile fun ride he was still trying to bu**er off up the road at speed!)

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The leg you can see here is his only one without a white foot, so the "blackest" if you see what I mean

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Winter colour

So, does my boy have some sort of fancy colour, or is he a bit of a strange little bay?! Not that it matters in the slightest, he could turn purple overnight and I'd still adore him :)
 
Welshies seem to have colours all of their own. My mare is part bred D and about the same body colour as yours ( I say she is ginger biscuit coloured!). When I bought her the vet actually put her down on the certificate as a bay because of her black mane and tail. These days her mane is more body coloured but her tail is still more black than brown, although lift it up and she has gold and silver hairs in abundance underneath. She has blonde feathers and a dorsal stripe - sometimes- and sometimes dapples. I think your chap is bay though because although his legs are inconclusive, I see he has black tips/edges to his ears.
 
Yes, his ear tips are black, I was pondering his colour this morning but I was kissing his ears thinking that the black tips probably attributed to the bayness!
 
I would say bay, although there are probably hi-tech terms for it now, if he didn't have the black - ish legs and points on his ears (and look bay in the winter photo) I would actually go for chestnut on the summer photos alone.

I have a chestnut with a mane the same colour as your boy has, but with a chestnut tail and no dark points.
 
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