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I've sort of finally figured out how to post a piccie!
And with it being snowy all around I thought i would show you my little Hovis Reindeer.
He will most most bemused but heh!
Oh and i know his nose band is crooked - it was just a quick photo to show off the antlers, nothing else
 
He is as every adorable - my OH has been sent this link to get his clydie fix.

Is he going more more bay than sabino or it is the light?

I remember putting these on my 2nd TB mare. Miss Delia was a blue blood, bred by the Aga Khan and her face - she crinkled her nose and was not happy to be reduced to wearing bells and reindeer horns like some commoner.
 
I think its the light T. It was taken off a phone too so its not great quality.
His bum is a very gingery bay but his chest and tummy are still sabino. He's a very funny colour really.
He puts up with you doing anything to him - usually with an expression of "just grin and bare it, she bring carrots"
 
Thank goodness for that - I thought he was not going to match Farra - ginger minge sabinos rule
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Actually when she is full clipped - which she will be at the end of the month - so she gets a fine summer coat, she is a grey sabino rather than a ginger one.

Cairo was a lovely dark bay sabino as a youngster but in has last few years went more of a grey than bay sabino.
 
What a lovely gorgeous boy, how could anyone resist that gentle kind face, then spoil it with such cruelty lol
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I think it rather suits him.
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Its a marking more than a colour as such (I think!).
I've just nicked this off the internet:

Sabino
This patterning is quite distinct and quite common in clydesdales. Sabino markings are white spots or "splashes" that are on the horses belly, sometimes spreading from the legs. These markings can either be crips, or roaned out.

If you see a photo of Theresa F's Farra she is a really good example of Sabino marking. Hovis is not as good an example unless he's in the right light. He has white hairs that make him look like a roan but he is not a true roan. Stick "sabino clydesdales" into google and you get some good piccies of it.
 
Sabino - Cairo is a classic example, so good that he is in Utterly Horses model magazine on their feature on coloured horses.

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He is a bay sabino - any colour can be a sabino.

Farra is a chesnut sabino and I would say Hovis should be described as the same

Here she is partially clipped - so half grey and half ginger - though she is darker coloured in winter - summer she is a true ginger minger

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and her perfect ginger glory



Stinky in the background is correctly described as a bay tobiano.

Many Clydesdales and a lot of Welsh carry the sabino gene.
 
im loving the antlers
sabino is also known as blagdon colouring depending on where you come from both of yours are quite loud sabinos
my welsh is bay sabino but is nowhere near as roany as your two she just has the white splash on her belly and a few white hairs flecked through her coat
 
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