Breed Standards

Conformation
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The Head
  • Well Proportioned, of medium length, thin with straight or sub-convex frontal nasal profile. 
  • Forehead slightly wide and slightly round.
  • Face long and moderately narrow (more so on females), sub-convex or straight and lean.
  • Full jaw, lean and with long and discreetly arched jaw line
The Ears
  •  Ears of average proportions, very mobile, well placed and parallel.
The Eyes
  •  Lively eyes, triangular in shape and with an expressive gaze, orbital arches which do not protrude from the profile.
The Nose
  • Nose that narrows gradually, of soft and curved projection from the face.
  • Almond shaped nostrils and not protruding.
The Neck
  • Of medium size and length, lightly arched and muscular (less in females).
  • Well inserted at head and back.
  • Silky and abundant mane.
The Trunk 
  •  Well proportioned and robust.
  • Withers should be discreetly wide and distinguished and in a smooth prolongation to the back line.
  • Chest of good fullness and deep. 
  • Ribs arched, long and deep. 
  • The back solid, muscular and close to straight. 
  • Flanks extended and abdomen correct.
  • Loin short, wide muscular, and somewhat arched; well connected to the back and to the croup.
  • Croup of medium length and width, rounded and slightly inclined downward.
  • Tail set low and flush against buttocks, thick, long and often wavy hair.
The Thoracic Limbs or Front Legs
  • Shoulder long, muscular, oblique and elastic.
  • Arm is strong with a good angle.
  • Forearm powerful and of medium length.
  • Knees well developed and lean.
  • Cannons of proportioned length and well defined and ample tendons.
  • Fetlocks lean, prominent and with scarce feathery hairs.
  • Pasterns of good conformation, angle and direction. 
  • Hooves strong, of balanced dimensions, well developed.
The Pelvic Limbs or Back Legs
  • Muscular thigh, buttock lightly arched and muscular and long leg.
  • Hock strong, wide and clear.
  • Legs situated below the tarsal joint should have identical characteristics as those indicated for forelegs.
  • Legs should be correct.
Character Behavior and Temperament

Temperament is brave, calm, sensible, honest animals. They are stoic and docile. Gift for learning paired with the ability to adapt to diverse services and situations.
Functional Characteristics and Aptitudes
  • Great aptitude to perform diverse functions, easily interprets the rider's aids with a pleasant mouth, obediently, comprehensively, and with extraordinary comfort.
  • Their principle service is as a mount, with great ability for training (high school, classical dressage and vaquero), bullfighting, light teams or carriages, range activities and other disciplines.
  • Movements are agile, high, expressive, harmonious, rhythmic.
  • Special talent for collection and turns on the haunches.
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Andalusian Coloring
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Grey Coat Color
Technically grey its not a color gene, but a masking agent that acts upon and is dominant over every other color. Any horse that carries the grey factor will eventually become grey. A horse can be heterozygous or homozygous, carrying either one or two grey factors.
A grey horse is born with a base coat color of black, bay, chestnut, buckskin, etc. The horse will exhibit white hairs that may appear at birth around the eyes, face, top of the tail or legs. It is also possible that the white hairs may not appear until many months later.
Eventually, the coat becomes grey to white and may transform anywhere from 3 to 15 years. A variety of shading affects are seen, from a rose grey, slate or silver; to a dirty color with different patches and shaded areas. The mane and tail may go yellow or brown, and the coat may or may go through a dapple phase with either light dapples on a black background or dark dapples on a white background. Dapples may be accompanied by black points, mane and tail or a white mane/tail.
Bay Coat Color 
Bay comes in a variety of shades and genetically contains the agouti factor that suppresses black to the points. Bay is dominant over black. A bay foal is born with a black mane and tail & legs the same as the body coat or lighter.  Once the foal coat sheds out, black legs will appear. 
Body coloring may vary from a light chestnut shade to very dark or from a distance can even appear black. It may be copper, reddish mahogany, dull brown or golden like rich honey. Black bay is almost indistin-guishable from black from a distance. They will typically have brown shading behind the eye, around the muzzle, behind the elbow or in the groin area. 
On rare occasions, a bay coat may have a reflective metallic sheen that glows in the direct sunlight.  This is reportedly very rare and sought after in Spain. DNA testing is available for the agouti factor which produces the bay coat color.
Black Coat Color 
Black Andalusians are never born black. They are likely to be a mousy color or sometimes fawn colored at birth with light legs.  They eventually shed out their foal coats at 4-6 months depending on the time of year and black. Some lines of Andalusians will not go fully black until they are 4-6 years old and are mistaken for a black bay. The coat may easily sun fade with a reddish or golden cast, darkening each year until the horse is obviously black.  There are different variations of the black coat color. Nutrition particularly minerals can also play a part in the shade of black, a deficiency may cause a black to fade to reddish. The black gene can be DNA tested.

Rabicano
Bay coats and on the rare occasion blacks may have roaning with white hairs dispersed in clusters appearing on the body coat, or frosted in the mane and tail—called rabicano. This feature also may appear on the head, around the eyes and face, unlike a typical roan horse of other breeds.
Dilute Genes: Perlino, Cremello, Champagne, Buckskin, Palomino, Grulla
Before 2002, a PRE born in Spain carrying the dilute factor could not be registered as breeding stock. They were often sold at a diminished price or given away. It was thought that these colors were coming from the influence of other breeds mixed with Spanish genes and thus were undesirable.  Once the rule change, they were registerable and became the rarest colors in the breed.  It should be noted that many traditional breeders consider the grey horse to be more exemplary of the breed and closest to the original type, and are not proponents of breeding for rare colors.
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SBS Andalusian Breed Template
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