Is my horse technically a tri-colour?!

[suestowford]

Or LP that hadn’t progressed too far yet perhaps?

I had to go away and look up LP, and I didn't see anything that looked like her. She was an ancient cob mare of strange colour but she was loved

 

[Beausmate]

(Note I haven’t even touched on the likely dun issue )

But let’s enjoy this tri colour guy while we’re here

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Chimera? He looks like an Icey.

 

[ester]

There’s not really a colloquial term that I think suits it, as it’s not spotty in the real sense, and leopard pattern makes it seems like it would be

 

[ester]

Chimera? He looks like an Icey.

Yup he is a chimera icey

 

[FieldOrnaments]

Some of the genetic oddities that pop up in icies BC of the closed gene pool are fascinating (and very very pretty)

 

[DabDab]

I've owned my mare 8 years and still haven't really landed on a colloquial term for what colour she is. I tend to just say "I'll be on the funny coloured horse" because it is the most reliable description that people understand when they see her. I can also just about get away with "spotty" in the summer if I don't have a quarter sheet on her, but in winter nobody would recognise her as that.