Internet filter feeder service Buzzfeed recently fell head-over-heels for a luminous horse with long, delicate features and an incredible coat with a silvery-golden metallic sheen. Although Buzzfeed did not provide any details as to the provenance of the photos (and misidentified the horse as female, even though it clearly has boy parts), for those in the know, the horse's breed was obvious: this pale palomino (technically a "cremello") is a fantastic example of the Akhal-Teke, the national breed and emblem of Turkmenistan.
The Akhal-Teke comes in several coat colors, any of which can display the special metallic shimmer for which this horse breed is famous. But the best known and most popular is the so-called "golden horse," which includes buckskin, palomino, cremello, and perlino coat colors. In these pale golden coat colors, the breed's unreal sheen seems to take on an otherworldly glow and radiance.
