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Cremellos & Perlinos
Buckskin on the left, red dun on the right
Buckskin & Dun
Buckskin horses are a light-to-dark sandy yellow or tan color with all black points. Buckskins are very similar to duns, however, buckskins do not have a dorsal stripe or other "primitive" markings that are shown in the dun color. Dun horses have a sandy/yellow to reddish/brown coat. Their legs are usually darker than their body and sometimes have faint "zebra" stripes on them. Dun horses always have a "dorsal" stripe, which is a dark stripe down the middle of their back. Sometimes the dorsal stripe continues down the horse's dock and tail, and through the mane. Many dun colored horses also have face masking, which makes the horse's nose and sometimes the rest of the face a darker color than the horse's body. Color variations are bay dun, red dun & silver dun.
Palomino
Palomino horses have gold-colored coat with a white or light cream colored mane and tail. The Palomino's coat can range from a light off-white shade to a deep shade of gold.
Champagne
Champagne colored horses are born with bright pink skin which remains pink their entire life. What really distinguishes the champagne color from other colors is that champagne foals are born with bright blue eyes. Their eyes will usually change color as they age, but this takes a long time - whereas in other colors, the color of the eye changes more rapidly. The eye color will usually change from light blue to a hazel/green color.
Champagne colored foals are born with a darker coat than their future adult coat will be, and all Champagne horses have at least one Champagne parent.
Grullo or Grulla
This color is the diluted form of black with dun factor. In other words the black color is modified by the dun gene. Body color is smoky or mouse colored (not a mixture of black and white hairs, but each individual hair is mouse colored) Usually the horse has a dorsal stripe, shoulder striping or shadowing and black leg barring on lower legs.
Within this definition there are variations of the color often refered to as slate grulla, blue grulla, silver grulla, olive grulla, black dun or wolf dun. The grullo color in the quarter horse is very rare and only about 0.7% of those registered in the quarter horse breed each year are grullo.
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