Hi - I am new to this forum and discovered it while trying to research the colour of my gelding. I hope I'm posting this in the right place!!
After a week of hunting I am fairly sure he is a Black or Blue Sabino - but I would love others opinions and in particular some help identifying his base colour and any other possible gene effects going on. The first picture was taken three weeks ago, and the second was taken in September last year.
Here are a couple of pictures of Marley:
It is not easy getting good pictures of his body colour, but his summer coat is a mixture of black and brown hairs with roaning to the whole body but there is slightly more roaning under his belly, but no white splashes, which I think excludes him from being a Blagdon?
The mane and head are near black, although he has a few brown / dark chestnut hairs in his mane.
His tail is black underneath but from the top grow some white and some brown hairs, so it looks pretty pepper pot on the top.
His sheath is spotted (pink on black). He has a widish white face (but not covering his eyes) and a pink chin. He has irregular stockings (knifeblade?) on his hind legs, but his fore legs are black. His roaning increases and fades to white on his hind legs.
He is a typical gypsy / vanner cob type with lovely full, silky mane, tail and feathers. In winter he grows a black very course overcoat and looks black (I don't rug him and he lives out all year).
Marley is just 5 and I have had him for a year now, and his colour hasn't changed apart from the winter coat coming and going.
I'd love any ideas? What I find confusing is that although I have seen pictures of Blue and Black Sabinos, neither have the brown haris, which as I hope you can see from the first picture, make him darker than the Blue Sabinos but not anywhere are dense a colour as the black
