Bay
Chestnut
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Bay is a dilution of black. The agouti gene restricts the black to the horse's points while the rest of the body is a shade of brown. The shades of bay can go from near black to red to light sandy brown, but all have black manes and tails and black legs. Bay foals will not have black legs until they shed the foal coat. Bays can be homozygous for black and can only produce bays and blacks. If a pony carries agouti it will express it. Wild bays are bays that do not have solid black legs. Manes and tails on bays often fade in the sun.
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