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Bay.

Icelandic: Jarpur.
Description: Black mane and tail, often dark legs, a red or redish body colour.

Dark bay.
Yrpa from Enni, one of our broodmares, and Láki is the rider.
C: Lukka.

Medium bay.
C: Lukka.

Red-bay.
Komma from Langhúsum.
C: Lukka.

Light bay.
Flugar from strönd.

Light red bay.

Foal color:

The foal color is quite similar on a bay foal and on an adult bay, only lighter on the foal (that is, the foal grows a bit darker as it gets older).

It's easy to see on a foal that it's going to be bay.
This is our son of Stigandi and Hervör, born 1999.

Just a few days old bay foal.
Vilja from Bankesta.
C: Catharina Hedsåter.

Some genetics:

The bay colour is on the A-locus. You need one dominant gene A in the horse, which changes the black body-colour into red, so the horse becomes bay. This gene does not change the black colour of the mane and the tail, and often the feet also have a darker shade.

The colour in different languages:

Norway: Brun.
Denmark: Brun.
USA: Bay, brown, sandy bay, seal brown.
UK: Bay/brown.
Germany: Braun.
Dutch: Bruin.
Swedish: Brun.

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