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Show Color of Horses Few people seem able to describe the color of a horse unless their occupation concerns horses. A bay horse, notes a writer in London Answers An-swers Magazine, is a reddish-brown with black mane, tail, and points; sometimes with a white blaze or stocking. Chestnuts have the mane,, tail, and points of the same hue at the rest or lighter. Brown horses frequently have dark points. A clipped light brown may be mistaken mistak-en for a chestnut A roan is a horsa whose body color (brown, bay, or chestnut) is flecked with bluish-gray. bluish-gray. A strawberry roan has bluish-gray spots on a brignt bay skin. A piebald has patches of black on a white ground. A skewbald U splashed with brown on a whit ground. In speaking of a horse'f height, a "hand" is four inthei. |