Smoky black


Icelandic: Muskótt, glóbrúnt or mórautt, according to different parts of Iceland. Pale black (móbrúnt) might in some or many cases in fact be smoky black in genotype.
Description: Black with a reddish shade.
A very light smoky black (glóbrúnt) horse (can be hard to distinguish from liver chestnut without the help of the pedigree, but the color is more yellow/blod red/bright than a liver chestnut)"










A dark smoky black (glóbrúnt) mare. Ţoka frá Sauđárkróki.
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A smokey black horse with a very light brown eye, but that is a trait you can see on most smokey black horses. This color is what would be registered as pale black (móbrúnt) by most Icelanders.
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A smoky black mare, Eir from Tunguhlíđ. Such light versions of smoky are extremely rare, and since her mother is buckskin silver dapple, Eir might be smoky black dark silver dapple black. Who said colors were easy ;)
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Same mare as above.
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A pale black mare, that is in fact dark smoky, as her father is a known Ccr carrier. It is hard to tell for sure exept by getting hints by looking at the pedigree and the offspring. Sometimes such pale black horses are simply jet black horses that have sunbleached a lot, especially if they are in very sunny countries. This mare was in fact later exported abroad, and became the same color as the horse on the top picture here above, in a sunnier country she revealed better her smoky genetics.
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Some genetics:
The glóbrúnt colour is a Ccr gene changing the black or chocolate-brown colour of a horse into glóbrúnt. This happens to some horses, other black horses can have the Ccr gene without it changing the black/chocolate-brown body colour.

The color in different languages:

USA: Smoky black
Dutch: Smoky, zilversmoky
Swedish: Gulsvart

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