Brabants - Colours

The three principal colours of horses are bay, black and chestnut. Different from most other races the invariable grey-factor occurs a lot by drafthorses. It's called roan (or rouan). The coat is shot through with white hairs which produce a grey appearance. Every main colour has it roan-variant: bay roan, black roan and chestnut roan.
This grey-factor is invariable: by getting older the number of white hairs doesn't increase noticeably.
There are also real grey horses, but this is very exceptional.

So there are 7 colours but in these there are many variations in darkness. In the overview of the colours - lower at this page - you'll notice that only black is black!

Currently, the most common color is the bay roan. At this time, the favored colors in Belgium are chestnut, red bay and black.

Red Bay

Bay Roan

Black

Blue Roan

Chestnut

Chestnut Roan

Grey