Whiskey...look how light he is!

He looks neat! What color did he test to be?

Thanks, I know, I love his shade right now. Too bad his hair changes it's mind every 4 weeks or so. He tested buckskin, lol. We strongly believe he's a smokey brown though. Here's how he looked about 4 weeks ago:
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Oh yeah, the in the shade photos don't lie IMO.

I never got around to giving him that bath today lol. I'll get it done Saturday and get clean pics of him...he needs it bad. He was sweaty in the shade pics so some of the dark areas might not really be that dark, and he also has some dry sweat spots on him that make him look dull in places. You'd think the dummy would stand in the shade more often but no, every time I stop to love on him he's standing in the 100 degree sun sweating lol.

Couple pictures from today, taken at mid-day with my digital camera (the OP pics were taken with my phone). Horse in the first pic is my fiance's sorrel Sabino roaned mare. We've owned her since 07 and this is the lightest she's ever been. The past 2 summers her coat has matched her tail.
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ohh he's exactly the same color as my first horse! gold in the sun and grey in the shade. He kept being called "grullo". :lol: (except his name was Bucky, I hadn't a clue what his real color was, smokey brown makes sense)

Clean pics from yesterday, it was overcast.
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Love his colour! Cool how his legs are diluted to a choc colour just like some Smokey Black coats:)

[quote="Fledgesflight"]Love his colour! Cool how his legs are diluted to a choc colour just like some Smokey Black coats:)[/quote]

Thank you, I like his legs too, he's such an oddball lol. When I took him to the vet in April they asked what color he was for his Coggins paper and when I said smokey brown she said "Uhhh...I'm just gonna write down dark buckskin" LOL. They'd never even heard of brown!

I don't know, I'd say dark bucky too from those photos. And then again, like me, the vets may be relying on what they have been taught about colors from waybackwhen. I'm of the "old" school (literally, and have loads of grey hair to prove it - lol) where brown was just a black bay; hence a black bay with cream is a dark bucky...yea, I know there is now a test for brown agouti At vs A, but bad habits are hard to break :BH .

As for the sorrel, I wouldn't call her a sorrel, but a chestnut as she doesn't have flaxen or flaxen streaked mane/tail. But as the term sorrel is subjective, not even used in some countries, I guess it doesn't matter.

I never use/hear the term chestnut...they are all sorrel or red down here lol, regardless of shade or flaxen/lack thereof. Someone this far south can say they have a red horse and everyone knows what they mean. It's all E_ either way though lol.

Here's my odd bucky, he was never really that yellow though, he stayed kind of buff color. He legs were never true black, always smokey or chocolatey. Florida sun, and he was about 20. digital pictures of print photos.
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He was "grullo" when I got him but I was never too sure about that (and now I know he wasn't). The vet just scratched his head and wrote "brown" on the coggins. :)

Oh yeah, and he had a matching goat. :rofl (and you did [b]not[/b] ever mess with his goat :shock: )

What an odd shade!!

How weird. Almost reminds me of Splash!

And here we say chestnut is darker and sorrel is redder. We say chestnut flaxen or sorrel flaxen or sometimes they just mess up entirely and say palomino haha! Though I don't often hear english people refferring to a horse a sorrel.