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of age, the horse’s coat may show distinctive “dapple" patterning. Dapples, too, eventually fade, leaving the horse either flea-bitten gray, or just white, entering middle and old age.

The dots or flecks (“fleas”) on a flea-bitten gray show the horse’s base coat color, so a horse born black will have dark gray or black fleas, while a horse born bay or chestnut will have red fleas.

When fleas converge to form a splotch, they are called a “bloodmark,” which harks back to a single gray Arabian ancestor to the Thoroughbred breed known as the “Bloody Shouldered Arabian.” The marking looks like a mass of flea bites, but in reality is just a coat patterning color dictated by

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