Difference between brown & bay?

[linnyrose114]

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[slc]

Bay is a redder color with dark mane and tail and legs.

Brown is - brown. Very little to no red in it.

In the USA, the terminology tends to be confused. There are a lot of brown horses that get called bay, if their legs or mane or tail are a little darker Technically, if it's a brown color, it's not a bay, regardless if the points are a little darker. Americans tend to call a lot of horses bay, that are actually brown.

[linnyrose114]

Yep. Plus bays has dark points, browns have light.

[turnnburnlynx]

Actually the 'brown' looks very similar to what a lot of people consider a dark bay. It's a dark brown to black horse with some lighter points