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Some chestnut horses that do not exhibit much flaxen may nonetheless produce strongly flaxen offspring. Studies on Morgan horses have indicated that the flaxen trait is inherited. [4] [5] One found that flaxen chestnut horses mated with other flaxen chestnut horses consistently produce only flaxen chestnuts, which, if Mendelian inheritance is ...
Colloquially, in the American west, almost all copper-red chestnuts are called "sorrel." In other parts of the English-speaking world, some consider a "sorrel" to be a light chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail. A liver chestnut. Liver chestnut or dark chestnut are not a separate genetic color, but a descriptive term. The genetic controls for ...
Horses with chestnut or chestnut-family coats - such as palomino, red roan, or red dun - are therefore unaffected by the gene and may silently carry it and pass it on to their offspring. On the template of a black horse, which has a coat rich in eumelanin, the effect is that of complete conversion to varying shades of silver.
Palomino: chestnut horse that has one cream dilution gene that turns the horse to a golden, yellow, or tan shade with a flaxen or white mane and tail. Often cited as being a color "of twenty-two carat gold", [ 5 ] palominos range in shades from extremely light, almost cremello, to deep chocolate, but always with a white or flaxen mane and tail.
It is most commonly chestnut, flaxen chestnut or chestnut roan; bay and blue roan are less usual, and black is rare. [ 14 ] : 154 Limited white markings are tolerated. [ 15 ] : 7 The head is of medium size, the profile straight or convex; the neck is long and well set on, the shoulder long and sloped, the chest broad, the breast deep, the back ...
A dark liver chestnut has the same recessive base genetics as a regular chestnut, but the shade is a dark brown rather than the reddish or rust color more typical of chestnut. A horse that appears to be a dark liver chestnut but has a flaxen-colored mane and tail, sometimes colloquially though incorrectly called a "chocolate palomino", could be ...
The Comtois horse breed is an old breed of horse that is believed to have descended from horses brought by the Burgundians of northern Germany to France during the fourth century. [1] It is believed that they have been bred in Franche-Comté and in the Jura Mountains since the sixth century. In the Middle Ages they were used as war horses. [3]
Blair Athol was a flaxen chestnut with a broad white blaze.He was bred, owned and trained by William I'Anson, who was based in Malton, North Yorkshire.His sire, Stockwell, was the leading British colt of his generation, winning the 2000 Guineas and the St Leger in 1852.