"Light Black"

This page only refers to horses that have been DNA color tested and "should look black".

We know of at least 3 kinds of puzzles among horses that test E_, aa, crcr (true pure black with no cream gene)

1. Some look brown all over, all of the time.  (not the agouti color "seal brown" but the generic color brown -- brown to the eye.)

2. Others have black points but their bodies never look black, but rather they look like bays, buckskins or duns.

3. Then there is the "fading black" classification where the horse grows every coat (seasonally) pure black, but within weeks or months it fades drastically to brown or even tan.

Links to pages about individual "light black" horses are at left.

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