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 Light eyelashes (white or yellowish), while not present on all silver horses, are a reliable characteristic seen on most (ssss1).

Silver bay is often confused with flaxen chestnut (see ssss1)—for example, in the United States these colors have been recognized as separate entities only since 2002. The silver bay horse has a red or brown color to the trunk and a lighter mane and tail—from dark ashy with separate whitish and yellow locks of hair, to almost completely white (ssss1). Sometimes the same horse can have a dark and smoky tail paired with an almost white mane, or vice versa. The skin and hooves are pigmented.

The main difference between silver bay and flaxen chestnut are the dark legs, resembling the legs of an ordinary bay horse. In flaxen chestnut animals, the lower part of the legs has a red or whitish color. In the silver bay, the color of the lower part of the legs fluctuates from light to dark brown—to sometimes black. In addition, the ears often have black rims.