There’s an old Icelandic saying – “A Good Horse Has No Colour” – but for many people the huge variety of colours in Icelandics is one of the attractions of the breed. Icelandics come in literally all colours apart from spotted. Here are some examples of the various colours.
- Buckskin
- Smoky black
- Strawberry roan
- Black splashed white
- Red dun
- Chestnut pinto splashed white
- Silver dapple black
- Silver dapple black (homozygous)
- Palomino
- Silver dapple bay dun
- Faded black
- Dapple grey
- Chestnut
- Buckskin dun
- Grey
- Blue Dun
- Bay
- Black
- Silver dapple buckskin dun
- Silver dapple black
- Cremello
- Chestnut skewbald
- Chestnut with flaxen mane
- Silver dapple blue roan