TRICKY 1.
This horse, in his winter hairs, looks at first sight like he's a normal buckskin. But take care, the stripe on his back reveals his dun gene. He is also smutty dun, which is why the face is like it's a bit dirty. The mane has also a bit of lighter edges, even though the photograph didn't catch that well. Óríon from Keldulandi.©-LUKKA
Óríon from Keldulandi, a smutty bay dun and buckskin
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TRICKY 2.
Sikill from Ysta-Mói has a bay body, and a dark mane with silvery hairs. When looking as his pedigree, there is no silver dapple anywhere close to him. And his mother is liver chestnut, while his father sires chestnut offspring with silvery hairs. So, this horse is in fact liver chestnut with a dark flaxen mane and silvery hairs (vindhærður). On this horse the vindhærður color is very obvious, very often you don't see the color so clearly.
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His strange mane, just like sterling silver.
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Smutty face, yellowish body, light mane with both a hint of black color and a hint of silver color in it.
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Darker legs but light fetlocks, eel stripe.
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This mare has a bay dun father, and a silver dapple mother. The calculation is thus simple, even though the outcome is spectacular and strange to see. This is a silver bay dun. The base color is thus bay, the dun gene changes the horse into a bay dun, and the silver dapple gene changes the black mane and tail into a light mane and tail. As the father of this mare is known to throw splash whites, and as this mare has a black/bay base color and a blaze, it is a possibility that she carries a splash white gene too, but it is impossible to know untill she's had some offspring.
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Same mare as above.
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Tricky 4
This horse (Stormur) has a palomino father that is known to sire silver dapples. Stormur's mother is black. He looks like a strange smoky or a strange silver dapple, and in fact he's both, he get's the black color from his mother, the silver color from his father, and the creme (smoky black) color from his father. The outcome is a silver dapple smoky. His half-brother which is silver dapple is on the right side on the picture, see how very different the body color is.©-Susanne K. Möller
Tricky 5
This mare is in fact a real riddle. She's all in a very light color, but the feet are dark and the face is very smutty, the mane has a silvery shine. She's silver buckskin. That is, the base color is bay, the creme gene changes the base color into buckskin, and the silver dapple gene changes the black mane and tail into light/silvery.©-Michael G. Jensen
Tricky 6
To begin with, this horse is obviously tobiano/pinto. Then if we look at the color of the spots, it it creme colored and must be palomino or buckskin. But as the mane is silver dapple the base color must be black, so the horse is buckskin (palomino has a chestnut base color). A blue eye and white "helmet" in the face indicates splash white too. So this is propably silver dapple buckskin tobiano splash.©-Ómar Runólfsson
Tricky 7
Horses like this one have given people the ideas that the champagne color might exist in Icelandics. It gave rise to a lot of debate for a while. But, one characteristics of the champagne color is that they are born with blue eyes that later turn brown, and they have a pink mottled skin. This does not happen in any Icelandics.
The horse on this picture looks champagne with non-mottled skin. When he had had a lot of offspring, one could see the genetical composition, he is buckskin silver dapple.
The brown eyes come because of the Ccr gene. The golden color in the mane comes because of the Ccr gene. The silver color in the mane comes from the silver dapple gene. The total effect is certainly striking.
Above - Gnúpur, a stallion that is buckskin silver dapple.
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A close up of his brown eye. ©-Dawn Shaw
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