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What colour is she?

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#1 ·
I was wondering what colour my yearling is. I can't quite figure out if she's bay or something else because of her white socks. The second picture is more what she looks like in natural lighting.





 
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Brown horses can have black points. This filly looks like a brown to me - she is still coming into her adult coat though, and it will become clearer as time goes on.
 
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In my area, a brown (all shades of brown whether red or true brown) horse with black points is a bay. Apparently it depends on the breed whether you call it bay or brown.
Terms could also be different in different locations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_(horse)

"Some breed registries (including the Jockey Club Thoroughbred registry) use the term "brown" to describe dark bays."
 
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While this used to be the case, since using the term 'brown' went out of fashion, as Quixotic said, they have now isolated the gene that causes brown. On a genetic level, the horse is different. It is no longer a location thing, like sorrel and chestnut still is. Sorrel and chestnut are genetically the same - bay and brown are not.
 
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