Bay horses

 See also category: Bay horses.

The most classic shade of "bay."

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  English: yellow or Tiger eyes on a Puerto Rican Paso Fino horse
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  English: This is a dark bay or "brown" horse, as seen by the light hairs around the muzzle. This lightening is not due to Pangare.
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  Deutsch: Dieses Pferd ist genteisch ein Brauner, wie die hellen Haare um das Maul herum anzeigen. Diese Aufhellung ist nicht durch Pangare verursacht.

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  English: The brown Nose shows that this horse is a dark bay, not a genetically black hoerse.
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  Deutsch: An der braunen Nase kann man sehen, daß dieses Pferd ein Schwarzbrauner und kein Rappe ist.
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  English: Dark brown horses like this one, were thought by some to have carry a pangare gene. However, genetic tests show that the light color of mouth is not caused by Pangare.
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  Deutsch: Das Maul dieses Dunkelbraunen sieht ähnlich aufgehellt aus wie ein Mehlmaul, tatsächlich wurde aber nachgewiesen daß bei Pferden dieser Farbe dieses Gen nicht vorhanden ist.
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  A dark bay like this horse can be distinguished from a black horse by the lighter hairs around the eye.

Bay horses after body-clipping. Many bays have a two-toned hair shaft, lighter at the root than the tip. When their body hair is cut short with clippers, they may appear to be a different color.

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  English: A bay horse that has been body-clipped; blood bays in particular may have a two-toned hair shaft, lighter at the root than at the tip. Note horse is solid color and no evidence of dun markings; natural hair color shows on head and flank
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  English: Another bay horse that appears to have been blanketed and body-clipped. (note hair color change where neck meets shoulder, approximately where a stable blanket would go) Due to two-toned hair shaft, some blood bays appear buckskin when body-clipped
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