Varnish roan describes a horse with coloration similar to roan, but with some changes in color over the years, though not to the extreme of a gray. This...

darker patches are called "varnish marks" and are not found in true roans. Varnish roans can also be distinguished from true roans by the presence of leopard...

of roans include true or classic roan, varnish roan, and rabicano, though other currently unknown factors may be responsible for ambiguous "roaning." Gray...

roan coat is often confused with other colors, especially gray on a chestnut base, bay roan and varnish roan. Distinguishing between strawberry roan and...

darker-colored hairs Roan (horse), a horse coat color pattern Varnish roan, a leopard-complex horse coat color that looks similar to roan Roan antelope, an African...

spots are not affected by this roaning process. Neither are the "bony prominences" strongly affected. As a varnish roan horse lightens, the leopard spots...

sometimes called white ticking, is a horse coat color characterized by limited roaning in a specific pattern: its most minimal form is expressed by white hairs...

Similarly, darker coloration at the points is also preserved in horses with the roan gene, a patterning gene, producing a body coat of mingled white and dark...

especially around the eyes and muzzle. Also, roans do not lighten with age, while grays always do. The varnish roan is another unusual coloration, sometimes...

Appaloosas have a blanket or varnish roan phenotype ... In the Noriker breed most horses with LpLp are leopard, and the few varnish roans or blanketed horses in...

spotting in horses. In general, Sabino patterning is visually recognized by roaning or irregular edges of white markings, belly spots, white extending past...

the blanket and leopard patterns, tend to be stable. Horses with the varnish roan and snowflake patterns are especially prone to show very little color...

horse with a pale mane and tail. Bay Roan horses are bays with at least one dominant roan (Rn) allele. The roan gene creates an effect of white hairs...

adding white that runs up the legs onto the belly or flanks, with "lacy" or roaning at the edge of the white, plus white on the head that either extends past...

skin color with freckling. Red or "strawberry" roans have a chestnut base coat with the classic roan gene (one or two copies). A skewbald, "chestnut...

blue roan. Sometimes this designation includes the bay family: bay, seal brown, buckskin, bay dun, silver bay, perlino, amber champagne, and bay roan. Horses...

Pinto patterns Leopard complex Varnish roan See also Appaloosa and Knabstrupper Roaning patterns Roan Rabicano...

full leopards. Homozygous leopards have the LP/LP genotype, and may be varnish roan, fewspot leopard, or snowcap patterned. Homozygous leopards are substantially...

of melanocytes create patterns of white spotting or speckling, such as in roan, pinto, leopard, white or white spotting, and even some white markings. Finally...

Pinto patterns Leopard complex Varnish roan See also Appaloosa and Knabstrupper Roaning patterns Roan Rabicano...

the horse's base coat. varnish roan: a mix of body and white hairs that extends over the entire body—no relation to genetic roan. snowflake: white spots...

adding white that runs up the legs onto the belly or flanks, "lacy" or roaning at the edge of the white, plus white on the head that either extends past...

white spots, especially along the topline. Roan horses often develop patches of solid (dark) hair on the roan sections of their bodies wherever there has...

and have blue eyes. Grullos are sometimes confused with roans or grays. However, unlike blue roan, dun has no intermingled black and white hairs, and unlike...

Pinto patterns Leopard complex Varnish roan See also Appaloosa and Knabstrupper Roaning patterns Roan Rabicano...

dilution. In this coloration, each individual hair is mouse-colored, unlike a roan, which is composed of a mixture of dark and light hairs. The several shades...

tail. Horses with chestnut or chestnut-family coats - such as palomino, red roan, or red dun - are therefore unaffected by the gene and may silently carry...

Pinto patterns Leopard complex Varnish roan See also Appaloosa and Knabstrupper Roaning patterns Roan Rabicano...

Pinto patterns Leopard complex Varnish roan See also Appaloosa and Knabstrupper Roaning patterns Roan Rabicano...

Pinto patterns Leopard complex Varnish roan See also Appaloosa and Knabstrupper Roaning patterns Roan Rabicano...