What Color is My Horse? Quick Guide by Ancient Breed

[DarkAngelRising]

maybe a dumb question, but I'm new to the game ^^
where can I find these 'signs' (like a/a for black) at my horse's profile? because I want to determine the colour of some of my horses, but I can't find the 'signs' anywhere :')

There aren't any in this game (yet?) It's very guess work and experience based.

[YixingLao]

Thank you for this! I'm relatively new to the game and seeing this makes me really more interested. It is great to see this as I didn't know that this was something that happened lol

[Bunbun0412]

I am breeding North African barbs and if you are interested, just reply to this post and I will also let you pick who I breed. I have some dapple greys, Several varieties of buckskin, some variation of champagne, and some of the usual, bays, blacks, and red chestnuts.

[Tenacious Equine]

A great way to tell if your horse carries a recessive gene is to breed them to other horses who have two copies of the recessive version of the gene.
For example, you could breed a bay horse to a black horse to see if the bay horse is hiding the "a" version of Agouti- if any of the foals turn up black based, then the bay horse must be carrying a copy of "a". Though it's entirely possible that you'll have a stroke of bad luck and none of the foals will turn up black, even if the bay is carrying it.
You can also do this with dominant genes, by breeding horses with the dominant copy of the gene to horses that do not carry the dominant copy of the gene. If the horse is homozygous for the dominant copy, they will always pass on at least one copy to their foals, while heterozygous horses may not always pass on a dominant copy of the gene.
I learned a lot about horse genetics from another genetics-based horse sim (that does have gene testing), so if anyone ever wants my help to try and figure out what color genetics their horse has, feel free to ask.

[BlackOak2]

That is a glitch coat.
When looking at AC horses, sometimes they'll have these. They're not the correct coats, but the mane and sometimes also the tail will give away the true color of the horse.
These glitch coats will eventually revert to the true coats at or before the horse's 10th birthday.

With the exception of one, the glitch coats have only ever been found in the AC.

They are gorgeous though, aren't they?

Oh definitely! I thought it might be something like that, a bit sad shes changed, even if she is glowing red now lol. Shame that

Indeed!
The closest we can get to this color is the pseudo-black chestnuts. If you can find the right sooty genes, you can breed a line that creates a sooty coat on the chestnut that turns essentially black and that leaves maybe a bit of the mane and tail not so black. If you pair that with the flaxen gene, you can further brighten the mane and tail (and any feathers as well). It can be handy, but I haven't yet seen or heard of anybody tackling it, to see just how far it can be achieved.
There are... somewhere around here... Halloween Horses. Contest gifts from years ago that have genes that exhibit similarly.
It's easier to just show you:
Taken from the Favorites Topic.

[YixingLao]

This was such a helpful guide, I love looking at horse stats whenever I do have the free time. However, I can never understand the horse colours that are expressed with a few letters that look like a code, I mean, they are actually a code. In a regular human eye we can say that horses are either white, black, brown, or possibly gray at times. However it is in the horse racing scene that I learned colours like bay and wild bay and sooty. I mean, what are those, right? Anyway!! thanks for this! I'll save it as reference.

[HaloShingTsui]

hmmm from the looks of it your horse should be way higher up in the list, given that your breed has something significant to do with it, but that is a gorgeous looking horse by the way.

[BlackOak2]

https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/3810867
Could this girl be a sooty-based bay tobiano?

https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/3810872
What about him? Rose grey? Or just a greying out regular bay?

Not sure sooty is the culprit for that first one's darker outcome. Might actually just be a dark bay. But, otherwise, yes, a bay tobiano.

Second one. We don't usually use such things like 'Rose Gray' or 'Steel Gray'. We usually call them 'graying bay'. Or 'graying' and whatever the underlying color is. When they start to fleabite, we sometimes also call them something like fleabitten chestnut. Although people don't usually change their color as the horses age. So, Graying Bay.

[MulberryGrove]

Hello! Newbie here wrapping my brain around things! (and having a blast doing it)

I believe Tarpan is a little bit outdated? They have

TARPAN
A/A (Bay)
D/D, D/d (Dun)
Sty/Sty, Sty/sty (Sooty) | sty/sty (Not Sooty)

They have LPswitch too, My Boy
is a Varnish Roan+Blanket

Also, would My Girl
be what the 'sooty' looks like? Such a darkdark bay I assumed Grullo at first

[Argent]

This thread is from 10 years ago.