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Dude one of the horses at the ranch has the same eyes! Don't know why but people get freaked out by them. I just think theyre awesome haha
Don't know if you can really see them in this pic but its the only one of him I have
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Yes, if you ever seen a Smokey Black horse, their main, and tail tips are reddish, and some have light colors like what you described.. So does a Liver Chestnut..
I knew a guy that had a buckskin with the zebra striping on the legs, and at the ends, they would be very light colored.. It's just an affect of the creame gene.
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Yes, if you ever seen a Smokey Black horse, their main, and tail tips are reddish, and some have light colors like what you described.. So does a Liver Chestnut..
I knew a guy that had a buckskin with the zebra striping on the legs, and at the ends, they would be very light colored.. It's just an affect of the creame gene.
Smoky black doesn't always present with a different visual type to black without cream, so looking for reddish hints in the coat is not any reliable method. As well as that, plenty of blacks fade out to a very rusty colour without cream being present at all.
A horse that is black with 1 creme gene isn't hard to spot, lol.
Google isn't a particularly reliable source. Most of those images are mish moshes of blacks, smoky blacks, smoky creams, I even see some browns and bays in there.
A black horse with one creme gene, aka smoky black, usually looks no different from a black horse with no cream. If anything they present as a sun-faded black.
Lol @ the prego one.. I believe, the 2nd one, or none at all, lol.
The first two are confirmed to be smoky black. There are only three ways to tell a horse is smoky black - testing them, if they have a double dilute parent, or they produce a dilute foal to a non-dilute horse (or a double dilute to a single dilute partner).