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I also thank Barbara Kostelnik for the effort she puts into her website devoted to rare horse color dilutions and for her kind help with the DNA test for the Iberian stallion Oro Mafiozo (see ssss1), Lee Patton and Holly Zech for their contribution to Oro Mafiozo’s test, and Yelena Volkova for her questions, which were always very difficult to answer, but I did my best, and they made me go out of my comfort zone and move far forward.

I thank all the owners, breeders, breed associations, and photographers from around the world who helped provide the photos for this book, and of course, I thank Trafalgar Square Books for making my book available for English-speaking horse people.

Vera Kurskaya

To begin, it is necessary to offer my own definition of horse color. A horse’s “color” is genetically determined as the sum of color characteristics of the entire integument (natural outer covering of the animal), including hair, skin, hooves, and eyes.