Black is a hair coat color of horses in which the entire hair coat is black. It is not uncommon to mistake dark chestnuts or bays for black.
Black Irish Draught horse
Black horse (top) with sun bleached mane compared against dark bay or seal brown horse (bottom) with reddish hairs around the eye.
As seen in this photo, black foals are often born a "mousy" color that sheds off as they get older
This black Shetland Pony foal was born very dark and will likely gray like its mother
Smoky black or black carrying cream is a coat color of horses which has the same phenotype as black. Smoky black is produced by the action of a heterozygous cream gene on an underlying black coat colo
A smoky black Missouri Fox Trotter horse.
A sun-bleached smoky black Icelandic horse, which has the superficial appearance of a dark bay.