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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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Huh, I also thought it was whether you were western or english, that western used 'sorrel' and english used 'chestnut.'

But chestnut is the lighter version, and sorrel is the darker version? My half arab mare was a sorrel after all, then.

Does the mane and tail hafta be flaxen for it to be classified a chestnut?
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