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This is the least common champagne color—a derivative from black. Classic champagne, to a certain degree, is similar to grullo (Photo 66). This color varies from dark-ashy, chocolate, or brown to golden and bronze, dark and brass, or light gray-brown, with a darker (chocolate or dark-chestnut, but not black) mane and tail. The lower part of the legs can be darker than the horse’s body. The ashy hair sometimes has a bluish shade. The hooves of classic champagne horses are pigmented; the eyes are amber, or less often green.

Foals are born dark brown and lighten. Similar to black horses, champagne horses can become sun-faded in the summer. Experts separate this from a light classic champagne, which is an animal with very light bronze, almost yellow color, and those with a light but noticeable grayish shade.