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Settle an Argument:What is "Sorrel?"

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Half of the people in our barn say that sorrel is a red chestnut (that's what I thought when I was a kid and I had a red chestnut horse), and half say that sorrel is a lightish chestnut with a lighter mane and tail and lighter hair around the edges, legs, muzzle, etc., like you find in some draft horses. Settle the argument...who is right?
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mojo7777 said:
According to Wikipedia:

Sorrel (horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I hate to spoil everybody's fun at the barn by settling the argument, but this definition says it all!
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According to AQHA and to registered horses that I've owned - Sorrel.
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I used to think that also (English = Chestnut, Western = Sorrel) but the Breed Registry uses definitions not disciplines.

As for flaxen, it's the other way around, flaxen = sorrel, black = chestnut.
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