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Silvery mane.

Icelandic: Vindóttur, vindhærður. This color is usually confused with silver bay, and might be the same gene, but seems to be inherited without producing silver dapple horses, so I think it's likely that it's a special gene.
Description: The horse has a bay, chestnut, yellow dun or other body colours, and a mane and tail with steel-grey or silvery hairs in it. Sometimes it's just a few hairs, sometimes this is very obvious. You hardly ever seem to see this color on black horses, if there are many white hairs in the mane of a black horse, it is a silver dapple. Back to previous page

A typical chestnut with silvery hairs (vindhærður). The flaxen mane has silvery hairs it it, but chestnuts do not show the silver dapple gene, so this is not caused by the horse being silver dapple. If palomino horses, yellow dun horses or chestnut horses have such silvery mane it's because they're vindhærður, not silver dapple.
C: Lene Solmose.

The mane of a very clearly vindhærður horse close up. Looks like sterling silver.
C: Lukka.

Some genetics:

Nothing has been written about the genetics behind this color.

The color in different languages:

Usually this color is confused with the silver gene.

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