What is it called when a horse/pony has a blood bay coat, but has a white mane and tail?

Elaine: What is it called when a horse/pony has a blood bay coat, but has a white mane and tail?
What is it called when a horse/pony has a blood bay coat, but has a white mane and tail? Is there a technical term for it, or is it just a strange variation on a palomino?

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Answer by Horsesrocktoday1321
Chocolate palomino or chestnut flaxen

Answer by Jeff Sadler
Sorrel is red. Blood bay is a sorrel colored body with black legs, mane, and tail. What you are talking about I assume is a sorrel with flaxen mane and tail.

A chocolate palomino is brown not red. Roan is when white hairs are interspersed on the body. It has nothing to do with bay or the mane and tail color.

And Julie is correct in that it can be a silver bay. I did not think about that since it is actually fairly rare. And no I was not suggesting a sorrel horse had black legs and points. I am saying the body of a blood bay is sorrel red verses the brownish chestnut color of the other bays.

What makes me think you are talking about a sorrel with flaxen mane and tail is that you are asking if it is a variation on the palomino. Which would indicate that the legs are not black.

Answer by Julie
It’s called silver bay, like these horses:

(this one also is sabino, but that doesn’t effect his silver)

The silver gene in horses is unrelated to the cream (palomino) gene.

The silver gene is a dilution gene which dilutes black pigment. It will make a black-based horse look a ruddy brown color. Bay horse’s tails and manes get that pretty silver bay coloration (but their legs are left untouched). A red-based horse, like a sorrel or palomino, is unaffected by this gene but can pass it onto offspring if it’s a carrier.

Not a chocolate palomino, that’s like this:

And there is no such thing as a sorrel with black legs and mane/tail… that’s not a sorrel! Completely different genetics at play here. A blood bay is something like this…

And I have NEVER seen a sorrel that shade!

And here is a good explanation of the silver gene…

Answer by App Equus Vicki
Liver Chestnut w/ Flaxen mane & tail or Chocolate Palomino , I have one now and my trainer showed one in the 70s WOW Julie I have never seen a Silver Bay , they are georgous , thanks for your input I am researching them right now !!!