I found this article about color vision in horses to be very interesting. It's not a breeding-specific topic, and it might be of interest to breeders among others. It looks at whether horses prefer one color over another, by giving a set of horses a choice in water bucket colors.
The article is from Kentucky Equine Nutrition. It was a small study with half Thoroughbreds and half Haflingers.
One practical application is that, if you have a horse that doesn't always drink as well as it should, use a [spoiler alert] turquoise water bucket!
Photo: Guillaume Champeau, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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