COLOURS, PATTERNS AND MARKINGS
hi, today I'm posting about Colours, Patterns and Markings different horses have. Horses sport a great variety of colours and unique markings. Each horse has its own marking an pattern. Here are some of the many Coat colours:
*Bay: It ranges from a light reddish brown to a dark almost black brown.
*Brown: The word "brown" is used to describe dark bays.
*Chestnut: A reddish colour with no black.The mane and Tail are generally the colour of the coat or lighter. There are a few variations in the colour.
*Grey: a horse with black skin but white or mixed dark and white hair.grey horses can be born in any colour and lighten as they age.
*Black: Black is a relatively uncommon, though not "rare". There are 2 types of black;fading black and non- fading black.
*Dun: Yellowish or tan coat with primitive markings.
*Roan: a colour that causes white hairs to be intermixed with the horses body colour. There are 3 types; Strawberry roan ( or red roan ), Blue roan and Bay roan.
*Palomino: a chestnut horse that has one dilution gene causing it to turn a golden colour with a flaxen( white ) mane and tail.
*Silver Dapple: Caused by a dilution gene that only acts upon black hair pigment, it lightens black body hair to a chocolate brown and the mane and tail to silver.
*White: One of the rarest colors, a white horse has white hair and fully or largely unpigmented (pink) skin. These horses are born white, with blue or brown eyes, and remain white for life.
There's also many different markings, like these:
Face markings:
*Bald Face or white face: a white blaze that spills over the sides of the face and usually over 1 or both eyes.
*Blaze: a wide white markings that runs from a horses face to its's nostrils.
*Race: a crooked strip
*Snip: a dab of white between a horses nostrils.
*Star: a Patch of white on the horse's forehead, between it's eyes.
*Strip or stripe: a skinny streak of white down a horse's face.
*White muzzle: no surprise there- its a white muzzle.
Leg markings:
* Coronet: a thin white band or stripe right where the hoof meets the leg.
*Ermine spots: Black or brown spots on a leg.
*Half stocking: white that reaches halfway up the lower leg.
*Heel: a dollop of white on the heel.
*Pastern: White that covers the pastern.
*Sock: White that reaches above the fetlock.
*Stocking: White that reaches the knee or hock.
*White crown: White on the front of the pastern.
*White leg: White that reaches the top of he leg.
Dressage is (a french word meaning training) a competitive equestrian sport. As described by the Internacional Equestrian Federation is the highest expression of horse training. This is a sport where horse and rider are performing a series of movements, sometimes even to the beat of music. Competitions are held all the way from amatuer level to the WEG games. The purpose is to develop through training a horse's natural way of moving and its willingness to perform. At the WEG or Olympic lever the horse is expected to respond inmediatly and succesfully to the rider's minimal aids. The rider will apear relaxed and effort-free while the horse performs the moevement.It is sometimes refered to as "Horse ballet". 
