This is the most common coat color in the Quarter Horse breed. These animals have bodies entirely covered in reddish-toned hair. The legs, mane, and tail share this same shade. Breeding two sorrel horses invariably produces sorrel offspring.
This coat features a uniform shade resembling coffee grounds. The mane, tail, and legs match the color of the rest of the body. This coat can be mistaken for black or dark bay when reddish highlights appear in the sunlight.
This coat is characterized by a yellowish or golden body with a black mane, tail, and legs. Buckskin horses may also exhibit zebra-like stripes on their legs and a dorsal stripe (eel stripe) along their back.
This coat is characterized by a golden-yellow body and legs, with a mane and tail that are a lighter shade, potentially ranging up to white.
Bay animals have a distinctly reddish body coat, with black legs, mane, and tail. It is the second most common coat color in the breed.
The coat can be white or very pale cream, with a white mane and tail, pink skin all over the body, and blue eyes.
This is a grayish or smoky coat?often referred to as "mouse-colored"?which must feature black points (legs, mane, and tail).
It features a very light cream or white coat, pink or pinkish skin, blue eyes, and a mane, tail, and extremities that are typically a darker copper or orange shade.
A coat color in which the body hair, mane, tail, and legs all share the same shade.
It features a base coat of bay or chestnut with a heavy admixture of white hairs throughout the body, most concentrated on the flanks and groin. While the distribution of white hairs across the body may be uniform, the head and extremities retain the base chestnut or bay color. The pattern develops in a posterior-to-anterior direction?spreading from back to front?and is most intense on the rear of the body.
Characterized by the progressive infiltration of white hairs. Typically, the first white hairs appear around the head and spread across the animal's body as it matures. Animals are born with a base coat color, and as they age, the white hairs increase in a pattern progressing from front to back. For an animal to be grey, at least one of its parents must also be grey.
A coat color featuring an intermingling of black and brown hairs, resulting in an overall dark tone, while areas such as the cheeks, armpits, flanks, and groin exhibit yellowish hues that are lighter than the rest of the body.
