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| | Genetics of Color in Peruvian Paso Horses by Jann Bach |
 | | You can visualize these base colors as B for bay and b for chestnut (dominant colors are usually represented by capitals.) Your fl roan, I'm going to assume that this is the sire, is a bay horse with two altering factors, one for a dark coat, and one for roaning. |
 | | Also, the Arabian breeders (since we only have 4 recognized colors, gray, bay, chestnut, and fl many breeders try to find the genetic color patterns of their breeding stock) have studied color inheritance patterns in Arabians enough to know that the gray color pattern is the sole color passed from the gray parent... |
 | | Their color loooks like a roan, but because their heads, etc. are also steel gray and not base colored, I believe they are properly grays and not roans. |
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