Very pale gold, almost cream, with black points. Chestnut is the official term for a yellow, red, tan, or brown horse with the same color or lighter mane and tail. A Palomino is called a bright chestnut in Arabs. Sorrel is the cowboy term for a red horse. Mane and tail are often same as body, but with flaxen mane and tail, may appear similar to dark palomino.
Sorrels are usually a little more orange than red in color.
Chestnut is similar to Palamino, only darker, some people refer to her as a dark Palamino, where as Sorrel is Red, either bright or dull, lighter shade. Different breed registries have different versions of sorrel vs. chestnut. The sorrel described here is actually a blond sorrel the action of the Z silver dapple gene on ee chestnut. Their current description differs from past ones as the new directive on buckskin vs. dun will change things for those horses of those colors in the future. The Belgian registry calls as sorrels those horses that are Z- ee blond sorrels, and chestnut are ee horses.