Buckskin (horse)

The horse has a tan or gold colored coat with black points (mane, tail, and lower legs).

Buckskin occurs as a result of the cream dilution gene acting on a bay horse.

However, it is possible for a horse to carry both dilution genes; these are called "buckskin duns" or sometimes "dunskins."

Since 1963, the American Buckskin Registry Association (ABRA) has been keeping track of horses with this coat color, and although Buckskin is sometimes classified as a color breed, due to its genetic makeup that depends on having one, not two copies of the dilution allele, coat color cannot ever be a consistent true-breeding trait.

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