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Newborn buckskin foals are typically light in color, tending to darken after they shed their baby hair. The lower part of the legs can be diluted or black, and with time the black zone tends to extend almost to the knees and elbows.

This color is encountered in many breeds: Lusitanos, Quarter Horses, Miniature Horses, Shetland Ponies, Welsh Ponies, Connemara Ponies, Australian Ponies, and Kinsky horses, for example. Light or dark buckskin color (with visible countershading) is common in the Akhal-Teke breed, and the Byelorussian Harness Horse frequently features very light-colored horses with an almost white trunk. Very rarely is the buckskin color found in Orlov Trotters, and only very recently was it discovered in Thoroughbreds.

In some countries the smoky black color is not considered its own entity and is not recorded in breeding documents, and rarely is referenced in the literature. Visually this color is difficult or even impossible to distinguish from faded black (see ssss1). Smoky black horses can have smoke-colored hair, and in such cases the shade is uniform over the entire body. The main difference between the smoky black and faded black horse is that in a smoky black animal there is almost no difference between the color of the neck and head. The skin and hooves are pigmented, and the eyes can be a walnut color, causing this color to sometimes be called “yellow-eyed black.”