Weird shade of chestnut?

[Prometheus Stables]

I just don't know what color this is. I just bought her so all there is is a baby picture where she is clearly chestnut, but her current coat seems weirdly desaturated for a chestnut. Her sire has a similar coat and a chestnut baby picture as well. I just have no idea what sort of dilution or modifier acts like this. Any help would be appreciated!

CL Ember

[Fox13]

I just don't know what color this is. I just bought her so all there is is a baby picture where she is clearly chestnut, but her current coat seems weirdly desaturated for a chestnut. Her sire has a similar coat and a chestnut baby picture as well. I just have no idea what sort of dilution or modifier acts like this. Any help would be appreciated!

Appears to be a red dun. What makes horses darken with age is the gene known as sooty. Sooty will also turn just portions of a horse darker, like a dark back half with a light front half. Sooty can also come in uniform and not darken with age. Sooty can also turn just small parts of a horse dark.

Sooty is a dominant gene with four master switches. It has 4 expression genes and one progression gene. Sooty is also the only other option (right now at least) to give your horse dapples outside of the graying gene and the silver on black gene.

[Prometheus Stables]

I just don't know what color this is. I just bought her so all there is is a baby picture where she is clearly chestnut, but her current coat seems weirdly desaturated for a chestnut. Her sire has a similar coat and a chestnut baby picture as well. I just have no idea what sort of dilution or modifier acts like this. Any help would be appreciated!

Appears to be a red dun. What makes horses darken with age is the gene known as sooty. Sooty will also turn just portions of a horse darker, like a dark back half with a light front half. Sooty can also come in uniform and not darken with age. Sooty can also turn just small parts of a horse dark.

Sooty is a dominant gene with four master switches. It has 4 expression genes and one progression gene. Sooty is also the only other option (right now at least) to give your horse dapples outside of the graying gene and the silver on black gene.

Ah, thank you! I didn't know sooty could be so uniform like that; I've mostly just seen it as a sort of shading along the topline. But yes, I see now how sooty + dun could create such a dark, desaturated color. Thanks!