It is sometimes seen in chestnut horses with flaxen coloured manes and tails. A chestnut bachelor stallion with a flaxen tail. Most American Belgians are a light chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail. Other definitions are broader and include reddish-brown horses with flaxen manes and tails. The mane and tail are white or flaxen. Certain horse breeds such as the Haflinger carry flaxen chestnut coloration as a breed trait. A chestnut flaxen filly whose colouring is a throwback to the Yarraman line. Flax or Flaxen is a pale yellowish-gray, the color of straw or unspun dressed flax. Intentional selection for flaxen chestnut coloring began in 1875. Some chestnut horses that do not exhibit much flaxen may nonetheless produce strongly flaxen offspring. Jesse's horse is Buddy, a large chocolate flaxen stallion. Morrison, who had "a fair complexion, blue eyes, and flaxen hair", claimed to be white. Flaxen does not affect black or bay horses, only chestnuts. The title is in French and translates roughly to "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair".