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
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Medium bay.
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Red-bay.
Komma from Langhúsum.
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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.
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Just a one day old bay foal -
Vilja from Sandenhed.
©-Catharina Hedsäter
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 color in different languages:
Norway: Brun
Denmark: Brun
Germany: Braun
USA:Bay, brown, sandy bay, seal brown
UK: Bay/brown
Dutch: Bruin
Swedish: Brun
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