No one else has posted horse pics, so I'm it for now
The leather is very tough, and will take a while to distress naturally. Having said that, when the light hits it at certain angles, the lighter sections (such as where the material is pulled taut on pockets, etc) is a lighter red... but again, only under certain lights. In some lights, it looks a uniform dull dark brown. In other lights, it's almost maroon. It's a really interesting leather.
In some areas where I've had a good scrape, it has actually taken the brown off altogether and gone back to the leather underneath - a mid-tone kind of tan... almost a hint of orange to it, although that probably gives you the wrong idea about that I mean...
I'll try and do some closeups of this damage this weekend... I wonder if the colour/tanning on the horse isn't as thick/deep as on other leathers?
