Coat Dilution?

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Ravenmire Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:51 pm Posts: 75

Coat Dilution?

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Hello! I have this gorgeous Norman Cob colt that I’m a bit stumped on determining his particular dilution.

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From the current HWO guides, I can see he has what appears to be a mealy bay dun base, however his coat has some sort of dilution that makes it appear a brassy colour. Is this an attribute of metallic? Any info would be very welcome! :D

(I have a few horses with similar coat colour/dilutions, so it may help me to determine those too!)

Thanks!
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EclipticEnd Offline Visit My Farm Visit My Farm Joined: Thu Dec 24, 2020 12:21 am Posts: 1825

Re: Coat Dilution?

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Ravenmire wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 11:54 am Hello! I have this gorgeous Norman Cob colt that I’m a bit stumped on determining his particular dilution.

❈ R⍵R ❈ Spiralling Oak


From the current HWO guides, I can see he has what appears to be a mealy bay dun base, however his coat has some sort of dilution that makes it appear a brassy colour. Is this an attribute of metallic? Any info would be very welcome! :D

(I have a few horses with similar coat colour/dilutions, so it may help me to determine those too!)

Thanks!
Yep, just a Mealy Bay Dun. The metallic look that you're seeing is from training; as a horse becomes more trained, it gets a more intense training sheen similar in appearance to Metallic. As you can imagine, a fully trained Metallic horse would be very shiny indeed.

It's more than likely just the training on this one, and others that look similar may be such via their own training.
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