What colour is this horse?

[Clodagh]

He's a real live "Silver Brumby"!

Though I spent my entire childhood thinking they were greys,until I found out the author meant them to be Palominos!!

Beat me to it with that comment. .

 

[PurpleSpots]

I thought Thowra was a double dilute, and many of his family too - he favoured the same colour mares, and double dilute to double dilute gives a double dilute foal.

He definitely wasn't grey, and I didn't think he was palomino... Maybe I need to re-read the books too... What a shame - it's not to be a child again and get lost in that world, it's research

ETA: Just found some exerpts from the first few pages of the first book - cream colour with silver mane and tail - in my mind he'll always be a double dilute though, even though I now know he was really a palomino!

 

[ester]

My mum had kept all her pony books, I loved once I got good enough to read them.

 

[TinselPoos]

Had a quick google of the book covers and they all seem to show him as pure white whilst the films and cartoons show him as palomino. The author obviously had more say in the promotion by the time the films came out, perhaps.

 

[Clodagh]

I thought Thowra was a double dilute, and many of his family too - he favoured the same colour mares, and double dilute to double dilute gives a double dilute foal.

He definitely wasn't grey, and I didn't think he was palomino... Maybe I need to re-read the books too... What a shame - it's not to be a child again and get lost in that world, it's research

ETA: Just found some exerpts from the first few pages of the first book - cream colour with silver mane and tail - in my mind he'll always be a double dilute though, even though I now know he was really a palomino!

I always thought he was cremello.