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Silver color displays the following characteristics:

 Many silver horses show a characteristic marble pattern on the legs called webbing. This has a “rusty” appearance or looks like whitish, irregular, elongated streaks with sharp boundaries (Photos ssss1–ssss1).

 Ashy or black hair in the mane and tail are found frequently (ssss1). Silver horses can have yellowish guard hair of a dim, rather dirty shade, but not red or reddish, which would be typical for flaxen chestnuts.

 Striped hooves are found in some silver horses, but they are not always present (see ssss1). They differ from the striped hooves of appaloosa-spotted horses (see ssss1), because the stripes in silver horses are not black, but dark gray, and do not have sharp borders. Often their stripes are wedge-shaped. Striped hooves can be observed in foals, although in the process of the horse maturing, they may disappear.

 Pronounced seasonal dapples are observed in some silver horses (silver dapple—see ssss1), appearing in summer and vanishing in winter (ssss1).