Help with this colt + his parents

[Malakai10]

You're right about the seal brown and she just looks greyish because of the dun part. So, she's a brown dun.

The sire is a flaxen red dun tobiano, probably has sooty.

The dam is a silver dapple - this can also be called silver black.

Oh! Dun? I didn't think of that at all when looking at the sire. I didn't think he looked dun, and honestly I still don't quite see it. But dun would absolutely explain why my mare looks like she does. Thank you!

His sire's coat has a sort of grey overtone that dun causes. If you look at his face and legs, you'll see that it's more red than the rest of the coat. There's also a reddish stripe on his back and and at the top of the tail.

Ballet is certainly dun and had to have inherited it from one of her parents. The dam doesn't look like she has dun at all (although it has been a while since I've worked with silver), so it had to be the sire - whose colouring looks dun to me - he has also sired another dun, Pepsi, out of a sooty bay mare.

You can get really cryptic duns, at times. There's this horse this I have, a chestnut, that has this funny shade because of sooty which made me think he was a cryptic red dun. The only reason I think he's sooty chestnut now is because he hasn't sired any duns to the chestnuts I bred him to.

Current age


3 years old:


See how his coat is a bit grey? Not quite bright enough for chestnut. It confused me at first but his offspring to non-dun carriers aren't dun.

Here are some other chestnuts for comparison.

This one has a lot of sooty:

His foal coat is closer to most chestnut's colour:


A slightly dark chestnut:


In any case, do you see how their colour is richer than Prince's?

Here's a flaxen chestnut, his colour is very obviously chestnut - bright and bold.




Here's a red dun, notice how her colouring is more similar to Prince's than the chestnut's?




Here's a tiger eye sooty red dun that's just about turned black

Click on here to go to her page - her most recent photo is a bit outdated