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The nomenclature I’ll rely on for colors is influenced by the traditional names long prevailing in the Russian color science and practice, and in equestrian pursuits, supplemented to reflect popular usage in the world at large. American geneticist Dr. Dan Philip Sponenberg (2009) stated that “the ideal nomenclature of the names of colors of horses can be that, in which each unique name of color corresponds with the specific genotype, and each specific genotype has a unique name of the corresponding color. Such precise connection between the genotypes and the colors is absent from all systems and nomenclatures. This happens sometimes for biological reasons, but it is much more frequent for cultural and historical reasons.” As an example, “red” coat color in the English language is a single category, and all variations are built on the basis of the word “chestnut.” But there are three concepts of chestnut in the Russian language—“red,” “brown,” and “flaxen chestnut”—and there are also three in Spanish.