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Title: The Color of Horses: The Scientific and Authoritative Identification of the Color of the Horse by Ben K. Green, Darol Dickinson ISBN: 0-87842-437-7 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (5 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Gorgeous paintings, but not much else to offer.
Comment: The "scientific" information given in the book is grievously outdated and has long since been proven incorrect. It is also fairly incomplete - no cremello, perlino or silver dapple for example, and no composite dilute colors, such as the horse that may carry both a creme gene and a dun gene. The paintings are beautiful, however. There is great temptation to take the paintings out to have framed. ;)
People wishing to learn more about equine coat colors, especially the genetics aspect of things, would be better served by buying Sponenburg or Bowling's book - or even stopping by the UC Davis website, which has a nice section on coat color genetics. (A search on any of the major search engines will bring up the exact address). Jeanette Gower's 'Horse Color Explained' is also a decent book, altough it can be confusing since it was written from an Austrailian perspective.

Rating: 5
Summary: It's all about color!
Comment: I have owned this book for many years and refer to it on occasion for information or just read it for fun. I like it for the entertaining way in which it was written and also for the information on horse color. Locally any brown horse is called sorrel around here so it is interesting to see what color a sorrel horse really is. Yes the horse paintings are really beautiful and well worth the price of the book. I find Dr Greens information valuable and admit I have bought most of my horses through the years remembering his advise about color even though I live in the midwest not in the south.

Rating: 2
Summary: 2 Stars for the pretty pictures
Comment: for the text, no stars. Under the heading 'Palomino' is written..'Pigmentation continues to diminish when dilutes are continuously bred to each other, and the hide of each generation will be less durable and useful until, in a few generations, it finally becomes albino'.
Well, this is news to me.
Palomino breeders will love it, I'm sure, especially as is also written..'Dilutes are undesirable colors in a horse intended for useful purposes'.

I would take the contents of this books with more than 'a pinch of salt', but it makes fun reading.

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