My trainer/friend.... Frainer.... said "you sure you want a white horse?" when I was first looking at taking Whistler home. Whistler was rescued from the Enumclaw feedlot as a 9 month old filly. She is a beautiful brown and white pinto with blue eyes. At first I was confused why a white horse is an issue.
I understand now.
Horse folk joke about "greys" becoming "bays" in the spring.
Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish brown body color with a black mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs. Bay is one of the most common coat colors in many horse breeds.
Gray or grey is a coat color of horses characterized by progressive silvering of the colored hairs of the coat.
Spring is a season characterized by rain and mud.
A green horse (or rider, for that matter) is a horse that has little or no training.
It seems our little Whistler prefers poop to mud. I call her our "Green Filly" not because she is untrained, but because she is constantly the color green. I brush her daily to try to scrape the poo out, but when a horse rolls in poop daily, it is useless.
Whistler works daily at grinding mud and poo into her coat. She manages to get it on her face, ankles, neck, under her mane.... Perhaps Pintos turn their sheen Green in the Spring while the Greys turn Bay.
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