The color of horses: The scientific and authoritative identification of the color of the horse [Paperback]

Ben K Green (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Northland Press; 1st edition (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873581318
• ISBN-13: 978-0873581318
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,511,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's all about color!, November 7, 2002

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Dana Shaull (North English, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Color of Horses: A Scientific and Authoritative Identification of the Color of the Horse (Paperback)

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.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buy it for the paintings, not the info, August 10, 2004

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C. D Plitz "Horse lover extraordinaire" (Sunny Phoenix Az) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Color of Horses: A Scientific and Authoritative Identification of the Color of the Horse (Paperback)

This book is gorgeously illustrated by Darol Dickenson, one of the finest horse painters in the business. The text, however, leaves something to be desired. The information is so outdated that for the most part I wouldn't bother reading it except for entertainment value. Since it was written around the time I was born, I'm not suprised. Give him credit, he tried to do it scientifically, but science has taken great leaps and bounds since this was written, and much, much more is known about how color inheritance works in the horse. So buy it for the paintings, take them out and frame them even, but forget about learning anything accurate and of value pertaining to how horse color inheritance works.

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous paintings, but not much else to offer., April 12, 2003

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"skittlekitty" (Norco, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Color of Horses: A Scientific and Authoritative Identification of the Color of the Horse (Paperback)

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.